QuizList

Apparently, there’s more of us than there’s of you…

No information on the new quiz as promised, but hopefully I’ll have this soon. I hear that Madden’s in East Finchley has suspended its Tuesday quiz and I’ll let you know when there’s any update.  The Narrowboat in Islington has adopted John Henderson’s questions for its quiz, so expect a major change of style if you visit, but Pat from the pub is still calling them out.

For some reason, I started thinking about the worst themed rounds ever.  Here are some of my nominations for hand-around rounds and I’d love to hear some of yours.  Next week I’ll feature awful non-picture themed rounds.

Coming in at 5 it’s a round which contained eyestrain-inducing postage-stamp sized pics of planes and you were to identify what airline they belonged to.  Culprit:  The Windsor Castle, East Finchley.

Slightly worse was pics of spiders’ webs, and you were to identify what drugs the spiders were on when they spun them (Prince of Wales, Highgate).

At 3 it’s a Sudoku puzzle (some place in the wilds of Jersey).  What were you supposed to do if you had never played it?  Lose, I bet;  which we did.

At 2 it’s squashed pieces of potato crisps sellotaped to a piece of paper and you were to identify what flavour.  I can’t remember where this took place though the Cock and Bottle in Notting Hill did have a propensity for strange rounds of this nature.

At 1 what else could it be but Mister Bastard Men, the same sheet of ten of the little horrors which has been downloaded so many times that we should know them by now, but we don’t (too many pubs to mention).

And, to conclude:   clue 8 on my place-name challenge - may face an uncertain future because of question marks over its biggest industry.