QuizList

Next update on or before 20 September:  I’m away.

Unit 5, Cowcross Place, Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6DQ, 020 7250 3336, is running a general knowledge quiz on:
Date: Wednesday 24th September 2008
Time: 18:30
Entry costs £15 per team of four and includes snacks. There’s a bottle of Davy’s Celebration Champagne as a prize.

1 Bellevue Road, Wandsworth Common, London SW17 7E, 020 8672 8717. The Hope runs a Monday night quiz, with entry £5 per team and prize being the takings.

The Devonshire, 39 Balham High Road, Balham, London SW12 9AN, 020 8673 1363 has a quiz, apparently, but I have no indication of night of the week.  Ditto for:

Ye Olde Leather Bottle, 277 Kingston Road, London SW19 3NW, 020 8542 7490,

The Bridge House, 13 Westbourne Terrace Road, London W2 6NG, 0871 9841781, and

The Hob, 7 Devonshire Road, London SE23 3HE, 020 8291 2225.

The Market Tavern, 7 Shepherd Street, Mayfair, London W1J 7HR, 020 74089281, offers a Tuesday quiz, as does:

The Bear, 296a Camberwell New Road, Camberwell, London SE5 0RP, 020 7274 7037.

Also, I got to Sheephaven Bay (Camden Town), where Pat Logue (ex Oxford Arms) hosts a Monday night quiz in this refurbished and renamed pub.  It’s a must for anyone who enjoyed Pat’s Oxford Arms quiz, and has five themed rounds of twelve or more questions,  a jackpot plus free food for anyone who buys a jackpot ticket.  It’s free to enter and the prize for the winning team is the usual £15, but I think from next week that will go up and be funded by an extra 50p on jackpot entry.  If I heard correctly.

Jackpot questions where only one person in the pub knows (half) the answer!  From one question out of a selection of three questions! Aren’tchasickof’em?  This has happened twice recently.  Quizmasters, what is the point?  (Better stop this before I get to the point where I have to include ‘Glenda’s quiz hunks of the month…’ but see below…)

Two new quizzes to add:

The Coach and Horses, 173 Clapham Park Road, SW4 7EX, 020 7622 3815.
A quiz run on the second, fourth and fifth (if applicable) Thursday of the month.  On the last Thursday of the month, the proceeds go to local charity Alert.  Quiz master is broadcaster Richard de Costobadie (crazy name…)

St George’s Tavern, Belgrave Road, SW1V 1QD.  Night of the week not known.

A new ’season’ starts in the Three Compasses (Hornsey High Street) on Monday 15 September.  See Monday night N8 listings for a description of what this involves.  Of course, you can go along and play a quiz any Monday during the season, and win the nightly takings if applicable, but you have to be there for the whole ’season’ to win the extra prize at the end.

Update next weekend, then I’m off on holiday - byeeee!

Hoopers,
28 Ivanhoe Road,
East Dulwich,
SE5 8DH,
020 7733 4797 

are running a Thursday night quiz.  And further news:  no quiz at the Bailey (Highbury), on the Bank Holiday Monday night, and quiz prizes are now drinks.  About to make the amendments on the listings, and thanks (as always) to Eddie for both pieces of information.

God!  What a disastrous week of quizzes!  I count myself lucky that I was asleep on Thursday by 10.30 pm and missed that one as well.  Tales of woe from the Fun Boy Three, assuaged only by Irish coffees later in the week.  Ever get the feeling that you know less than you used to??

Which leads me on to the perennial question - if you’re good at quizzes, does it necessarily mean that your’re intelligent?  I probably know more about this question than most people do, and my unhelpful answer is ‘depends what you mean by intelligence’.   If you count intelligence as something that’s measured by an IQ test, and you take the best-know IQ tests (Wechsler),  you would probably have to answer ‘yes’.  Why?  Well, because one of the subtests which makes up the IQ score measures General Knowledge, that’s why…

More on this another time, and more new quizzes next week.

Next post/update on or before 23 August - I’m away for a while.

Any aspiring quizmasters want to do a Thursday night quiz in E3 (Bow)?  If so, mail me and I’ll foward your contact details to someone who can tell you a bit more about it.

A couple of new quizzes to be going on with while I’m off - nice to get central London ones for a change.  However, it’s my experience that these come and go more rapidly than quizzes in other zones, so check them out as always.

Mondays:
The Crown and Two Chairmen, 31 Dean Street, W1D 3SB, 020 7437 8192.

First and third Wednesdays:
Theodore Bullfrog, 26-30 John Adam Street, WC2N 6HL, 020 7839 2697.

Have I ever won a film quiz? Don’t think so. I have won pop quizzes and I find that a bit odd as I know more about movies than music. I think the standard of film quizzes is a lot higher, because frequently pop quizzes are set by (for want of a better term) ‘amateurs’ while film quizzes are set by afficionados.

The Phoenix cinema has teamed up with the Bald Faced Stag in East Finchley to offer a monthly film quiz, early evening on the third Monday of each month, with the next one on 18 August. Do you feel lucky, punk? Have a look at the questions from July’s quiz at:

http://www.phoenixcinema.co.uk/news/pubquiz.php

and see if you’re up to the standard…. Nice cinema, comfortable pub, so if I can persuade the Fun Boy Three along I might be there.