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To expand on some quiz changes which I was sent a few weeks ago:  The Brewery Tap Pub In Wimbledon has closed. The quiz(master), who also does the Sir Colin Campbell on Thursdays, has moved the quiz To The Trafalgar In South Wimbledon on a Monday night. 8.30pm start.  Contact details:  The Trafalgar, 23 High Path, Merton, SW19 2JY, 020 8542 5342.

Not the Trafalgar, but I was at another quiz where where punters are charged £2.50 entry and this goes to fund the QM’s fee and the prize money.  What do you think?  Not much, if you’re anything like me.  Pubs should be acknowledging the uplift in their takings and putting a bit more effort into things.

Back to quiz tribes. The second type of punter that I have noticed turning up regularly at pub quizzes congregates in Big Teams.

Big Teams contain 7-11 people and even if there is a maximum team limit for the quiz no-one in authority challenges them, in the expectation that they are going to drink a lot.  This expectation is not always fully justified. If pressed they will half heartedly ‘break into two teams’, ie fill in two quiz sheets at the same table.  They tend to be younger rather than older.  They arrive in dribs and drabs and the latecomers either sit on someone’s knee or grab a chair from another table, without asking if anyone is using it.  They tend to eat large packets of kettle chips and buy extensive disorganised rounds of drinks, always paying with a card, even if it is only one drink.  The women in the team scream when an answer which they have got right is read out.  There are usually one or two team members seeking quiz answers by mobile phone. If they  are challenged on this practice they tend to reply with the phrase which is the title of this posting. With the exception of this tendency they are usually harmless, though in the days of pub smoking they tended to stub out their fags at your table rather than theirs, to minimise the literal or metaphorical fog at theirs.  Do they always win?  God, no.  But if they do, you may expect more screaming…