QuizList

No updates this week due to illness.

First time I have ever had to do this, but apologies anyway and enjoy your New Year celebrations…  Many thanks also for all the information, changes and new quizzes I have been sent during the year.  QL

Not much to report as regards new or Christmas quizzes.  End of the year stuff is always useful to have and I always recommend Wikipedia’s list of notable events (look under 2011) and the separate list of deaths in 2011.

I mentioned before that there was a site which provides details of postal quizzes, which are a good way of supplementing your knowlledge and supporting worthy causes.  Macmillan Cancer Support now has a winter quiz and details of how to obtain it and many others can be found at:   http://sitesaver.dns-systems.net/quiz/viewquery.php?quiz=My%20visit%20to%20the%20Zoo&PHPSESSID=af5995ee4c3887b4b3bc3069b4edf4c9.

I am alerted also to a site where it’s free to register and play quizzes, and that can be found at: www.dkquiz.com .

So plenty to keep you going, and have a great Christmas.  Last update of 2011 next week.

The quiz in The Brewery Tap, SW19, is no more.  The QM has moved to the Trafalgar on Monday nights.  Contact and other details of pub awaited.

The Oxford, 256 Kentish Town Road, NW5 2AA, 020 7495 3251, has a Tuesday quiz.

In The Three Compasses, N8 (see Monday night for contact details), the last quiz of the season takes place Monday 19 December.  The new season starts on 9 January 2012.  There is no quiz on Boxing Day (26th December).  On Monday 2 January 2012 there is a one-off quiz to raise money for ‘Help for Heroes’ and the London TA Regiment welfare fund.  Starts 8.30 with £2.50 per person entry fee, first and second prizes of ales and wines, and a raffle.

Thanks again to all who have sent in changes. amendments and additions.

Don’t forget my suggested solutions to the Bare Bones crossoword, and I’m glad some people found this helpful.

Short update next week so if any seasonal quizzes remain, let me know and I’ll include them…

Not quite a one-off, but this Tuesday 13th December there will be a fundraising quiz in aid of the Camden New Journal’s Christmas Hamper Appeal at Sheephaven Bay, NW1 (see Tuesday listings for location and contact details).  Tuesday is Sheephaven Bay’s normal quiz night, but this one has a few added extras and will of course be hosted by the inimitable Pat Logue.  So it’s eminently deserving of your support.

I’ve added a few York quizzes to the site, as promised, but the list is by no means complete and I will keep working on it. As and when. When I compiled the list, which was a couple of years ago, I wrote that some York quizzes offered free food, which can’t be bad.  However, the most annoying feature of York quizzes was that you are frequently not told what your score is.  QMs tended to say ‘Here are the answers… and the winning score was 20/20.  Goodnight, eff off and don’t come back!’  Well, that was a slight paraphrase, but you get the picture.

There is an experimental innovation on the site this time – my suggested solution to one of the harder Sunday crosswords, the Bare Bones from the Mail on Sunday – layout is a bit rough but if there is a demand for it I will improve it.  Look under ‘Articles etc’ on the right hand side.

And finally, things to look forward to in 2012:  you’ve heard of Sloane Rangers, soccer tribes, and Essex whatevers:  well, you ain’t seen nothing yet until you’ve read QL’s guide to the Tribes of Quizzing.  Starting some time in January…