The London Pub Quiz Guide
Some new one-off quizzes added, and I am wondering where to put the non-London ones: for the moment they are all in the same place, but things might change so keep an eye out. Thanks for anyone who tried the postal quiz – good comments – yes, some of them too hard and things will [...]
Some news on quizzes I may have listed briefly, but more information is always welcome. Here’s what the Boogaloo says about their music quiz – (italics indicate that I’m quoting someone else and the description isn’t mine): WHO KILLED BAMBI? MUSIC QUIZ ‘Who killed Bambi? Music Quiz’ is a famous quiz run by The Boogaloo [...]
New charity quiz on 29 March – see ‘one-off quizzes’ for details. Quizzing continues to feature in the media, and ‘Paul Sinha’s Quiz Culture’ on Radio 4 this morning is based around quizzing championships, rather than pub quizzes. It will be on BBC i-Player if you’re interested. In my opinion, it didn’t actually have a [...]
Semi-regularly, there seems to be a little flurry of interest in the media about pub quizzing. Here’s quite an interesting article from Dom Joly: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dom-joly/dom-joly-i-hope-theres-a-question-on-why-north-london-is-smug-2219875.html. I’m not sure which quiz is featured in the article… Smugness and nerdiness seem to be the prevailing stereotypes among media portrayals of the quizerati. However, nerds seem to have [...]