Of Masters and Machines

An N1 pub is looking for a reliable quizmaster to host a quiz once a month on Tuesdays.  They might be persuaded to change it to Mondays.  Let me know if you want your details forwarded to them.

Slow week , two fairly un-brilliant quizzes visited, and NC and PH proved hard to detach from the quiz machines.  Most pubs now seem to have the same model of games machine and it has a boring selection of games – once in a while when I happen on ‘Trivia for Dummies Version 1′ or ‘Quiz City’ it’s good…  ‘Beat the Landlord’ or whatever it’s called started with promise and has, I think, been hammered by too many professionals;  the crossword one isn’t bad but some original new games are needed.  I started off liking ‘Choose to Lose’ but then you get those awful spates where your choices are reduced to two…

Finally, for all would-be or veteran quizmasters, visit QuizList next week for the QuizMasters’ special, when I will be trying to put together a few resources for that group of people about whom I am frequently critical…