QuizList

New quiz at:

The Elgin Bar & Grill, 255 Elgin Avenue, W9 1NJ (opposite Maida Vale Tube), 020 7624 2602.

Here’s the blurb:
Come down to the new monthly pub quiz, upstairs at the Elgin on the first Thursday of every month at 8pm. There’ll be 6 themed rounds of questions plus picture/cryptic clues sheet and music round (intro’s, cover versions etc). Entry is £2 per person and prizes include champagne, a meal for 2, cake and different weird and wonderful wooden spoon prizes. All profits are donated to a different charity each month. Food is available either in the bar downstairs beforehand or during the quiz upstairs. Call 020 7624 2602 if you would like to book a table in advance (this isn’t necessary though unless you’re in a large group). Find us at www.facebook.com/elginpubquiz

Worth noting that the nominated charity the first night the quiz takes place, Thursday 1 April, is the RSPCA Central London branch.  Thanks as ever to people who send new quizzes in, and thanks also to the person who notified me of a few Tuesday night quizzes to remove from the list.

And an interesting sounding one-off quiz in aid of ChildLine and taking place at a very interesting location is listed for Wednesday 31 March – go to the relevant section to find out more.

I haven’t been out in a week, being housebound following a foot operation.  A foray to the rubbish bins yesterday was as good as it gets.  However, if the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain, and druing the week a somewhat disgruntled coterie of three people came back for drinks after a local quiz. The number of empty bottles and cans now clustered in the kitchen  means that a trip to the recycling bin is likely to be my second outing. They were fed up with two aspects of the quiz:  a) twenty pictures b) a tie-break for second place which they lost and which centred around a totally useless and uninteresting fact about the record time for reciting a famous soliliquoy.

Tiebreaks are not my favourite thing and I would say they are random except we seem to lose them all.  The only one I can offhand remember winning is ‘how many times did Lawrence Olivier’s character ask Dustin Hoffman “is it safe?” in Marathon Man?’  Think the answer was nine, and now you know.

And now to something you don’t know…  I’m starting another 13-question challenge, which will lead to a place name in Britain.  I will try to rustle up some small prize (and you are welcome to most of a bottle of a vile concoction called ‘Tribe’ which we attempted to drink but failed – no, that wouldn’t be fair).

Clue 1:  A prominent local football team might display all three primary colours.