QuizList

Two new quizzes to add this week:

The Blue Anchor, Rolls Passage, off Chancery Lane, EC4 1HL, 020 7430 2205.  This is advertising a Tuesday quiz with £100 bar tab prize and the chance to win free drinks.  Early start, not atypical for this area of London:  7 pm.

The Pipeline in Middlesex Street, EC1,  have mailed me about a quiz on 9th November – not sure whether this is monthly or a one-off so for the moment it’s in the One Off Quizzes section.

And a company in Dean Street have mailed me to say they are looking to start a monthly quiz for their staff and clients, and would like suggestions on venue and quizmaster.  Mail QuizList if you’re interested and I’ll forward your e-mail to them.   I have already suggested some of the obvious websites.

Well, this week, as suggested might be a possibility, we went for the third time to a quiz which we’d been highly suspicious of on the previous two occasions, and it was truly awful and depressing with the same kind of stunts going on.  I know this is Halloween, but aren’t we going a bit too far to with the inexplicable phenomena to have exactly the same score and margin of victory and winning team all the time?  A pity, because the questions are not too bad, but this comes at too high a price.  On the plus side, I finally got to the Coopers Arms in SW3 on Tuesday, and found quite a good 40-question quiz where the pictures weren’t crippling and the quizmaster has the eminently sensible practice of giving the same three jackpot questions to the whole pub and allowing you only 30 seconds to get your answers in. (QMs who allow longer don’t seem too bothered about cheating.)  So that almost balanced out the other slimy encounter.

Guesses are coming in thick and fast about the mystery place, and I think I’d better go a bit cryptic for the next clue…

4.  Think of a metal roster, then turn it round.