QuizList

No sooner do I list the Finchley Tavern as having a Monday quiz than it switches to a Tuesday.  Oh well.

The wonderful Marsha and Steve, who with the help of NC and PH had a big jackpot win during the week, sent me the following link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8544125.stm

Yes, it’s back to the age-old topic of cheating at quizzes, which is a source of annoyance to many.  I gather from another source that there is a Facebook group aimed at stopping cheating at pub quizzes and/or exposing the cheats.  Not being on FB myself, I can’t tell you any more.

I think the most annoying thing is not the fact that people do it but the half-hearted QM and pub response.  It appears that they don’t want to alienate anyone who might be a paying customer, even if they are a blatant cheat and p*ssing everyone else off.  I remember being at one of those quizzes where the jackpot question is given out to all teams at the end.  It was something to do with Vaclac Havel and we did know it.  Two drunks blatantly used a mobile to ring a friend and get the answer and were even heard loudly spelling it.  The QM’s response?  He split the jackpot between our team and theirs and told them that they were barred from future quizzes.  My sense is that the guys had been passing by and hadn’t intended to return.  To my mind, a watery and inadequate response;  but that was a long time ago, in another postcode, and besides the quiz is dead.

To clue 4 in our marathon:

4.  Stone age stone for a tourist attraction.