QuizList

Well, NC says it is and what’s more he wants me to add ‘Knocks the P***** of W**** into a cocked hat’.  The quiz in question is the Elephant, which takes place on Monday nights in North Finchley.  Quizmaster is the redoubtable John Henderson, aka ‘Enigmatist’.  It’s a few mixed rounds, some of which are themed and you work hard to get the connection, plus a picture round.  It’s fast-moving and you’ve got to like anagrams too.  The added bonus for me is a beer I can drink, which is rare outside my county of origin – it’s bottled ‘Discovery’.

Is the picture entirely rosy?  No, it’s one of the dearest quizzes around – £2.50 per head to enter – and there’s no jackpot.  I’m also told that on the nights we’re not there (tee hee) the same team wins a lot of the time.

A sample round below, from last Monday, answers next week.

And follow this link for ‘proof’ that pub quiz customers spend more on alcohol than football fans:  http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=14&storycode=67682&c=1

“AN ITEM?”

1 SECURED FLOP is which golfer in anagrammatical disguise?

2 Released in 1998, what was the title of the Best of George Michael album?

3 Which single by John Lennon knocked his own “Imagine” off the top of the 1980 UK charts?

4 Which youth organisation was formed by Robert Baden-Powell in 1910?

5 What were the codenames for the atomic bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

6 In which film does Marilyn Monroe perform the song Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend?

7 A cocktail of gin, cointreau and lime juice, what was British spy Fred Leiser’s favourite tipple in John leCarre’s 1965 novel “The Looking Glass War”?

8 Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth was which superhero’s butler?…

9…and Sue Storm Richards is also known as which superheroine?

10 “End of the Road”, “I’ll make love to you”, and (with Mariah Carey) “One Sweet Day” were 1990s hits for which Grammy-Award-winning band?