QuizList

…two new quizzes, both with £1  entry and both regularly offering £100 or more cash jackpots:
The Chequers,  177 Southborough Lane, Bromley Common, BR2 8AP, 020 8467 4644.  Sunday nights from 9pm. The Kings Arms, 16 King William Walk, Greenwich, SE10 9JH, 020 8858 454. Tuesday nights from 8pm.

Someone has mailed me from a land beyond the seas asking for opinions on ‘the best quiz in East London’.  Your nominations please!

Back to quiz tribes.  This week, it’s People Who Are Not In The Quiz But Nonetheless Shout Out Answers (Shouters for short).  Shouters are usually drunk and may be mob-handed or in groups of two.  They tend to be male but the last group encountered, in a Highgate pub, contained one woman who did not shout but rather stared at people, glassy-eyed, and whispered things to a companion.  Did the QuizMaster do anything about them?  Did he heck.  Like cheating, this is not one of the things which bother QMs.  These are venial sins as far as the QM’s canon goes.  The Seven Deadly Sins, or ‘mortallers’ as we used to call them,  include the following:  i) pointing out people who are cheating; ii) querying an answer; iii) querying a score; iv) querying a result; v) writing in a blog what I thought was a fairly neutral comment that the structure of the pub aids cheating; vi) raising an objection if bar staff or other non-quizzers are included in the jackpot; vii) failing to respect the QM’s ‘authoritah’.

Of course, Shouters do not win quizzes, nor do they contribute much that influences the result, as the questions they know tend to be the more obvious ones.

More next week…