The London Pub Quiz Guide
Next live update on or before Saturday 11 December – I’m going away. However, this time I am going to update next Saturday with a pre-written post – maybe Bible John will give me one of his ‘American Presidents’ quizzes or maybe I’ll prepare some Christmas trivia or something. To be done later today. Continue [...]
New monthly (Thursday) quiz in: The Lonsdale, 48 Lonsdale Road, W11 2DE, 020 7727 4080, http://www.thelonsdale.co.uk/bar.htm. Third Thursday of the month, more details under ‘Events’ on their website. For a ‘Quiz Pub Crawl’ go to: http://www.swlondonpubquiz.co.uk/. I think I have most of the individual pubs listed, but will double check to make sure. And keep [...]
New quizzes to report include something happening this and (I think) every Sunday at The Rest is Noise, 442 Brixton Road, SW9 8EJ, 0207 346 8521. See http://therestisnoisebrixton.com/ And I’m told (thanks for the details) about another weekly Sunday quiz at The Copper Cow, 2 Fauconberg Road, Chiswick, W4 3JY, 020 8742 8545, starting 7pm. [...]
So what’s the answer to the question I posed re the first elected Prime Minister/President who could have been termed an ‘ethnic minority’ in the country he/she flourished? Well, working backwards: Elected 2008. Barack Obama, USA. I don’t think we can argue with this – first African-American, albeit mixed race, in a country where by [...]