The London Pub Quiz Guide
New quiz at: Jam Circus, 330-332 Brockley Road, Brockley, SE4 2BT, on Tuesday nights. Free to enter, first prize £20, second prize bottle of wine, some home-baked goodies also awarded. More info at www.tuesdaynightpubquiz.co.uk. Following on from my question last week, ‘What’s with the obligatory 25-50% of the marks going on music????’ in quizzes in [...]
The seventh law of pub quizzing is that everything is predictable. It is somewhat related to the Second Law of Quizzing, that if something can go wrong it will, but has other nuances. You go to a quiz, are told that one team wins all the time, and it follows as night follows day that [...]
Next live update on or before 17 September: continue to send corrections and additions and I will try to include them. The fourth law of pub quizzes is that the QuizMaster is always right, even when he or she is wrong. This refers not just to quiz questions but to scoring, adding up, and perceptions [...]
Next live update on or before 17 September: continue to send corrections and additions and I will try to include them. As above; I’m away (or not, as the case may be). Fingers crossed it goes ahead. During my time playing pub quizzes in London, I have noticed that things tend to function according to a set [...]