QuizList

Lots of new quizzes to report and also quite a few changes to the listings, which I won’t detail but just be sure to check as far as you can before setting out because things change all the time.  And many thanks to everyone who sent new quizzes, changes and cancellations in – maybe my call for help on this has been answered.  So here arethe new ones:

The Commercial,  212 Railton Road, SE24 0JT, 020 7733 8783, has a Monday quiz.  This is run by no less than former Big Brother contestant Seanie.

The Marquess Tavern, 32 Canonbury Street, N1 2TB, 020 7354 2975 has  started a Tuesday quiz.  Here are some of the details:

The Marquess Tavern quiz is every Tuesday from 8pm and only costs £1 for 40 general knowledge questions. First place wins the jackpot and other prizes vary from a bar tab to bottle of wine to chocolates for things like best team name and tie breakers. Prizes will get bigger and better as our crowd grows.  We also sell extra tickets for a final rollover question. If the number drawn gets a question wrong the jackpot rolls over to the next week (good way to get people to return!).

 The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London, W1W 7JD, 020 7636 4992,  offers a quiz on the second Thursday of every month and here’s the blurb:

LET’S GET QUIZZICAL at The Social.
Free entry. Free to play
No dress code, no posers.
Opens 7. Quiz starts at 8.30
Dancing till 1am
Tables, first come first served.
 
Maybe it was the dismal quiz I was at last Monday where every round surpassed the previous one in terms of studiedly (is there such a word?) uninteresting questions that got me thinking about defining in more detail what makes a crap quiz.  Then I moved on to trying to work out a formula for an index score of crapness.   

The way I see it, the Quiz Crap Index (QCI) could be the following:
Number of questions about the QM’s pet topics;
multiplied by number of times there have been suspicious results in this particular quiz;
plus number of Mister (Bastard) Men picture rounds.

Obviously, the higher the score the worse the quiz. Now, I think that gives a pretty good indication of overall dismality (another neologism?) and I am only debating whether the number of times there have been suspicious results should be divided by the number of times you have been at that quiz.  On balance, no;  because,  this is the one thing that can’t be forgiven.

Once you have accepted the notion of a Crapness Index (CI), you find you can apply it to many things.  For instance, the CI of a particular geographical area might be derived by the following:
Number of branches of Nando’s;
plus number of closed-down pubs (bad sign);
multiplied by number of pavement cyclists you see within five minutes.

The CI of a Hollywood movie might be:
Number of mawkish words used to describe/sell it;
multiplied by number of car chase scenes;
plus an extra 10 for the presence of any of the following:  Dustin Hoffman, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage, Robin Williams, and Meryl Streep. If the last of these is doing one of her funny accents, add 20.

I could go on, but I’m supposed to be working.  Have fun making up your own CI formulae and send me the best!