Monday
Last modified July 14, 2008
Please check out whether the quiz is running or cancelled due to sport or whatever, with the pub, before you set out to a particular quiz listed.
CENTRAL LONDON
EC1:
Filthy McNasty’s, 68 Amwell Street, EC1R 1UU, 020 7837 6067.
The Gunmakers, 13 Eyre Street Hill, EC1R 5ET, 020 7278 1022: pop quiz 2nd Monday each month, beer/food prizes.
The Melton Mowbray, 18 Holborn, EC1N 2LE, 020 7405 7077: monthly.
The Three Kings, 7 Clerkenwell Close, EC1R 0DY, 0871 984 1342: music quiz.
Truckles of Pied Bull Yard, Pied Bull Court, Galen Place, WC1A 2JR, 020 7404 5338. Early quiz, last Monday of month.
EC2:
The Barley Mow, 127 Curtain Road, EC2A 3BX, 020 7729 3910.
The Scottish Pound, 50 London Wall, EC2M 5TE, 020 7374 4210.
EC3:
The Crosse Keys, 9 Gracechurch Street, EC3 0DR, 020 7623 4824:
£50 first prize, Wetherspoons pub, 7.00 pm start.
EC4:
The Punch Tavern, 99 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DE, 020 7353 6658: 6.30 pm first Monday of month.
WC1:
The Carpenters’ Arms, 105 King’s Cross Road, WC1X 9LR, 020 7278 2120.
EAST LONDON
E1:
The Horn of Plenty, 36 Globe Road, E1 4DU, 0871 223 7964: 7.30 pm start.
Ten Bells, 84 Commercial Street, E1 6LY, 020 7366 1721: first Monday of the month pop quiz.
The Town of Ramsgate, 62 Wapping High Street, 020 7481 8000.
E4:
Ryans Bar, 56 Carter Lane, EC4V 5EA, 020 7329 1100.
The Punch Tavern, 99 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DE, 020 7353 6658: monthly.
E8:
The Prince George, 40 Parkholme Road, E8 3AG, 020 7254 6060: Two short beer quizzes and then all the money collected goes into the jackpot.
Prize: Beer. Jackpot: Yes
E11:
Cuckfield’s, 31 High Street, E11 2AA, 020 8532 2431.
Nightingale, 51 Nightingale Lane, E11 2E, 020 8530 454.
NORTH LONDON AND BEYOND
N1:
The Bailey, 81 Holloway Road, N7 8LT,020 7607 1891: Free entry. Eddie the Fat Controller is the quizmaster and has a picture round plus three idiosyncratic rounds on a variety of topics.
Free entry. Prize: Drinks voucher (£40 or bottle of wine). Jackpot: No
The Baring, 55 Baring Street, N1 3DS, 020 7288 0111.
The Castle, 54 Pentonville Rd, N1 9HF, 020 7713 1858: 7.30 start, meal prize.
The Keston Lodge, 131 Upper Street, N1 1QP, 020 7354 9535.
The Marquess Tavern, 32 Canonbury Street, N1 2TB, 020 7354 2975: first Monday of month.
The Scolt Head, 107A Culford Road, N1 4HT, 020 7254 3965.
The William IV, 7 Shepherdess Walk, N1 7QE, 020 7119 3012: 7.30 pm start.
N2:
The Windsor Castle, The Walks, N2 8DL, 020 8883 5763.
N3:
The Catcher in the Rye, 317 Regents Park Road, N3 1DP, 020 8343 4369: early start.
N4:
The Faltering Fullback, Perth Road, N4 3HB, 020 7272 5834.
The Salisbury Hotel, 1 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, N4 1JX, 020 8800 3600: Format the same as Swimmer/Shakespeare/Prince George - two beer quizzes plus jackpot. Well-run and popular quiz.
Prize: Drinks. Jackpot: Yes
N7:
The Swimmer at the Grafton Arms, Ebourne Road, N7 6AR, 020 7281 4632: Same structure as Salisbury, Shakespeare and Prince George. The Swimmer is a crowded pub with some enormous teams and a reasonable if not always very interesting quiz (brush up your current affairs). They’ve covered over an area outside which functions as a kind of extension to the pub but it is bloody cold when they leave the door open so that punters outside can hear the quiz.
Prize: Beer. Jackpot: Yes
N8:
The Three Compasses, 63 High Street, Hornsey, N8 7NX: themed rounds, play your joker on one, good standard of questions. This pub sometimes runs a league arrangement where highest total team score at the end of a particular period wins crates of wine or other prizes.
Prize: Cash. Jackpot: No. Spot prizes awarded during the night.
N12:
The Elephant, 283 Ballards Lane, N12 8NR, 020 8445 0356: A few themed rounds where it’s not always clear what the theme is. A John Henderson (Enigmatist) quiz, which means challenging and cryptic clues.
Prize: Cash. Jackpot: No.
N16:
The Lion, 132 Stoke Newington Church Street, 020 7249 1318.
The Shakespeare, 57 Allen Road, N16 8RY, 020 7254 4190.
Two beer quizzes plus jackpot questions for cash.
Prize: beer. Jackpot: Yes.
N17:
The Northumberland Arms, 102 Northumberland Park, N17 0TS, 020 8808 3123.
N19:
The Archway Tavern, Archway Close, Archway Road, London, N19 3TD: charity quiz.
North Nineteen, 194-196 Sussex Way, Upper Holloway, N19 4HZ, 020 7281 2768.
N20:
The Black Bull, 1446 High Street, N20 9BS, 020 8445 3578: possibly ‘fun fortunes’.
NW1:
The Oxford Arms, 265 Camden High Street, NW1 7BU, 020 7267 4945.
Sheephaven Bay, 2-3 Mornington Street, Camden, London, NW1 7QD: Pat Logue, ex Oxford Arms, has started a quiz there, so it should be good.
The Spread Eagle, 141 Albert Street, NW1 7NB, 020 7267 1410.
NW3:
The George, 250 Haverstock Hill, NW3 2AE, 020 7431 0889.
The Washington, England’s Lane, NW3 4UE, 020 7722 8842: ‘Redtooth’ format quiz.
NW4:
The Greyhound, Church End, NW4 4JT, 020 8457 9730.
NW5:
The Dartmouth Arms, 35 York Rise, NW5 1SP, 020 7485 3267: this pub was starting monthly specialist quizzes first Monday of the month.
The Pineapple, 51 Leverton Street, NW5 2NX,020 7284 4631.
Torriano, 71-73 Torriano Avenue, NW3 2SG, 020 7267 4305.
NW10:
The Island, 123 College Road, NW10 5HA,020 8960 0693.
No. 8, 305 High Road, NW10 2JT.
EN:
The Avenue, 31 High Street, EN5 5UW, 020 8447 2667.
The Old Wheatsheaf, 3 Windmill Hill, EN2 6SE,020 8363 0516.
Weavers Bar, 27 Greenhill Parade, Great North Road, EN5 1EU, 020 8449 9292.
Ye Olde Mitre Inn, 58 High Street, Barnet, EN5 58N, 020 8449 6582.
HA:
The White Horse, 50 Middle Road, Harrow, HA2 0HL, 020 8422 1215.
MK:
The King’s Arms, 24 St Mary’s Street, Bedford, MK42 0AS, 01525 404513.
SOUTH LONDON
SE11:
The Prince Albert, 85 Albert Bridge Rd, SW11 4PF, 020 7228 0923.
SE14:
The Royal Albert, 60 New Cross Road,SE14 6TJ, 020 8692 3737 (fortnightly).
SE15:
Gowlett Arms, 62 Gowlett Road, SE15 4HY, 020 7635 7048.
SE22:
Uplands Bar, 90 Crystal Palace Road, SE22 9EY, 020 8693 2662.
SE23:
The Blythe Hill Tavern, 319 Stanstead Road, SE23 1JB, 020 8690 5176: free entry.
SE24:
The Prince Regent, 69 Dulwich Road, SE24 0NJ, 020 7274 1567.
SW1:
The Clarendon, 52 Cambridge Street, SW1V 4QQ, 020 7834 5281: early start, half the proceeds to charity.
The Coach and Horses, 35 Willow Place, SW1P 1JH, 020 7592 0981.
Molly O’Grady, Victoria Place, SW1W 9SJ, 020 7821 5151.
The Morpeth Arms, 58 Millbank, SW1P 4RW, 020 7834 6442: alternate Mondays.
SW4:
Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6D2, 020 7498 1779: third Monday of the month.
SW5:
The Duke of Clarence, 148 Old Brompton Road, SW5 0BE, 020 7373 1285.
SW6:
Too So Bar, 135-137 Stephendale Road, SW6 2PR, 020 7731 7823.
SW8:
The Canton Arms, 177 South Lambeth Road, SW8 1XP, 020 7537 3819.
SW10:
Chelsea Ram, 32 Burnaby Street, SW10 0PL, 020 7351 4008: first Monday of the month.
SW11:
The Woodman, 60 Battersea High St, SW11 3HX, 020 7228 2968.
SW12:
The Nightingale, 97 Nightingale Lane, SW12 8NX, 020 8673 1637.
SW14:
The Plough, 42 Christchurch Road, SW14 7AF, 020 8876 7833.
SW15:
The Fox, 167 Upper Richmond Road, SW15 6SE, 020 8788 1912.
SW18:
The Freemasons, 2 Wandsworth Common, North Side, SW18 2SS, 020 7326 8580.
SW17:
The Hope, 1 Bellevue Road, SW17 7EG, 020 8672 8717.
SW19:
The Brewery Tap, 68-69 High Street, SW19 5EE, 020 8947 9331.
Crooked Billet, 14-15 Crooked Billet, SW19 4RQ.
Finch’s Wine Bar, High Street Wimbledon, SW19 5DX, 020 8944 6686.
Hartfield’s Wine Bar, 27 Hartfield Road, SW19 3SG, 020 8543 9788: last Monday of month, free entry.
The Princess Royal, 25 Abbey Road, SW19 2LZ.
WEST LONDON AND BEYOND
W1:
The Albany, 240 Great Portland Street, W1W 5QU, 020 7387 0221.
The Duke of Argyll, 26 Great Windmill Street, W1D 7LQ, 020 7437 6819.
The Newman Arms, 23 Rathbone Street, W1T 1NG, 020 7636 1127.
The Red Lion, 14 Kingly Street, W1B 5PR, 020 7734 4985.
W3:
The George and Dragon, 183 High Street, W3 9DJ, 020 8992 3712.
W5:
T.J. Duffy, 282 Northfield Avenue, W5 4UB, 020 8932 1711.
The Wheatsheaf, 41 Haven Lane, W5 2HZ, 020 8997 5240.
W6:
The Plough and Harrow, 120-124 King Street, W6 0QU, 020 8735 6020.
The Richmond, 55 Shepherds Bush Road, W6 7LU, 020 7602 6161: once a month Bingo Quiz with apparently big cash prizes.
W8:
The Queen’s Arms, 171 Greyhound Road, W6 8NL, 020 7386 5078.
W12:
The Crown and Sceptre, 57 Melina Road, W12 9HY, 020 8746 0060.
Mulberry, 243 Goldhawk Road, W12 8EU, 020 8748 0229, free entry.
W13:
Castlebar, 84 Uxbridge Road, W13 8RA, 020 8567 3819.
TW:
The Greyhound, 82 Kew Green, Richmond, TW9 3AP, 020 8940 0071.