QuizList

New quizzes to know about:

O’Neill’s, 65 Cannon Street, EC4N 5AA.  Mondays at 6.30, £2 per person entry, cash prize plus spot prizes.  Yes, that’s the O’Neill’s chain which boasts the wonderful Smithwicks on draught, best ale in the world.

The Cuckoo, 115 Hemingford Road, N1 1BZ, boasts a new not-so-Fat Controller quiz on Monday evenings, 8pm , with a prize of a meal (for one).  Eddie the n-s-F-C will keep us posted on how this develops.

And check One-Off quizzes for details of EIA’s Year of the Tiger Charity Quiz Night, taking place on Thursday 11 February in Tiger Tiger in Haymarket, in aid of – you guessed it – tigers.

For some reason I got to thinking about what tv or film characters you might meet at pub quizzes, and here’s what I came up with.  Not all of these have actually participated in quizzes, but they represent some of the kind of characters you meet along the way.  Here we go:

Ian Beale (‘Enders):  the kind of person who will stop at nothing to win, just to prove a point.

Mr Garrison (South Park):  someone with a seemingly baffling private life, who has displayed an intimate knowledge of certain tv programmes.

Ken Barlow (Corrie):  not at all boring slightly avuncular older person who doesn’t know as much as he thinks.

McManus (Oz):  someone with an unjustified belief that their liberal intelligentsia credentials makes them good at quizzes.  I seem to remember McM getting a rude awakening on ‘Up the Ante’.

The Fat Slags (Viz, but I may be hallucinating to think they were on tv or film):  nothing at all to do with their figures but their endless ‘na-hah-hah’ing may sometimes be heard at quizzes…

Harry Potter: deeply annoying little twerp who seems to know everything and takes the high moral ground to boot.

Frank Gallagher (Shameless):  yes, folks, I have lost to characters as drunk as that, in a place not a million miles from the village…

But there is one tv character who above all epitomises a certain quiz type, with his endless facts, his equally (to Mr Garrison) mystifying private life, and his slightly on-the-spectrum presentation – who is it?  Answer next week, guesses to me (just for fun)…  cue dramatic music and closing credits!