The London Pub Quiz Guide
… And when he died, all he left us was a loan’. Better than average topical team name heard recently (mind you, it did kind of have to be spelled out…) leads us back to consideration of pub quiz team names. There are some other categories I could mention: Come again? World of Borecraft Timmy, [...]
How do you come up with a good quiz team name? This article, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40744/how-pub-quizzes-became-big-business/full/, which is one of the best I’ve read on pub quizzes and which I have cited quite frequently, has some rules which include: – Be topical: but don’t be stale (ie I do remember jokes about West Ham and Michael Jackson’s chimp [...]
New Tuesday quizzes at: The Old Ship, 25 Upper Mall, W6 9TD,.020 8748 2593, http://www.oldshipw6.com/ . £2 entry, prizes: 1st – £50 Bar Tab, 2nd – £25 Bar Tab, 3rd – £15 Bar Tab. The Star of Kings, 126 York Way, N1 0AX, 020 7278 9708, http://starofkings.co.uk/ . And a music oriented one-off quiz on the night of [...]
Continuing the theme of the pub quiz as a business, there is an interesting article from the US ( http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40744/how-pub-quizzes-became-big-business/page1/) which looks at how these quizzes originated and their likely future directions. I wasn’t aware that quizzes in the States sprang up in Irish bars, and find this difficult to square with the fact that quizzes [...]
Contestant call for a ‘new tv quiz show based on general knowledge and luck’. Volunteers are needed for the pilot which will take place in London on November 22nd/23rd. Mail me for more details if you are interested and I will put you in touch with the organisers. And there’s a one-off charity quiz on [...]