QuizList

Word of a rare Friday quiz has reached me.  Apparently it’s early evening and in:

The Windmill, 44 Lambeth High Street, SE1 7JS, 020 7735 1698.

Any more details, let me know.

And recently I’ve revisited two quizzes which some time ago I used to be found at semi-frequently.  First of all, we have the Victoria, North Hill, N6, which has changed its quiz night a few times and now settled on a Monday.  It’s taking a break at the moment but persisted through the first flurry of snow.  What’s good is that each round carries a separate prize;  what’s not so good is that some of these were fairly nasty-looking  sweets or similar which we gave back;  what’s good is the final ‘jackpot’ round where you have to reach a certain number of right answers out of twenty to scoop the takings.  The possibility exists of a rollover.  Anyway, I believe the quiz is taking a break in January.

Then on Tuesdays we have the Washington in England’s Lane, NW3,  a long-running quiz which temporarily shifted to Monday nights.  This is the standard ‘Redtooth’ format with the final wipeout round – get one wrong and your score for that round is wiped out, get all right and you gather an extra five points.  I am glad to say that we won and had an enjoyable evening sharing a big table with various other groups who dropped in and out and listening to stories on the architecture of Belsize Park (!).  The QM experienced some barracking and unfortunately wasn’t running the jackpot on the night we were there, which was a bit of a pity;  the only other complaint I had was that when the time came to get a taxi a staff member offered me a number where the controller had never heard of the Washington and also seemed puzzled at the concept of ‘England’s Lane’ …  Nonetheless, well worth a visit.

Complaints on the hardness of the ‘mystery place’ quiz!  Sorry.  Will do better…