QuizList

… this week, just one of those quizzes where you know from the start that you’re not going to win it, QM seemed to be waiting for a particular team before he started, then he gave them extra time to do a round they were struggling on, then 20 pictures for 40 points which we didn’t need (thought Nick Clegg looked like a sports commentator), then last few rounds so ridiculously easy that we couldn’t make up any ground… then rushed out of pub to grumpy taxi driver etc. Moan over. It just happens sometimes. And not just to me - I do get e-mails about QMs favouring particular teams but can’t publish most of them…

Anyway, loads of new stuff this week, plus change of night for Slug and Lettuce in Muswell Hill (to Sunday) - thanks as ever to everyone who mails me new or changed quizzes.

… that I hadn’t known about before, actually currently running:)

The Earl of Lonsdale
277-281 Westbourne Grove
W11 2QA
020 7727 6335 (Tuesday quiz)

Drayton Court
2 The Avenue
W13 8PH
020 8997 1019 (Sunday quiz)

The George and Dragon
183 High Street
W3 9DJ
020 8992 3712 (Monday quiz)

Mulberry
243 Goldhawk Road
W12 8EU
020 8748 0229 (Monday quiz, free to enter)

The Queen’s Arms
171 Greyhound Road
W6 8NL
020 7386 5078 (Monday quiz)

The Blue Posts
28 Rupert Street
London W1D 6DJ
020 7437 1415

I’ve just received some information about this Tuesday night (early, 7 or so) quiz:

‘4 rounds: 1 on current events, 2 on general knowledge, picture round, sometimes a music round.

‘3 quiz links, 3 spot questions to win 4 pints.

‘Prizes: Bottle of wine for third, meal for two for 2nd, and
kitty for 1st.  Entry £2 per person, so kitty can be a good amount.’

Sounds good, and thanks as ever to anyone who sends details in.

The great thing about the site now being in blog form is that I can think up silly titles for each new post.  Most of them are drawn from song lyrics and if they have a vague relevance to pub quizzes, well and good.  However, ’strain on the brain’ might be a bit of an overstatement for the last few quizzes I’ve attended. Quizzes seem to be heading towards the general-ist, trivial-ish, popular culture type questions.  And no harm in a way, because the quizzes where the QM is trying to prove he’s the cleverest person in the room are a bit unbearable.  But sometimes you want questions that are a bit more challenging…  maybe that means, after a long break, it’s time for me to go back to the Elephant in North Finchley on Monday night.

To some newly notified Central area quizzes:

Truckles of Pied Bull Yard,
Pied Bull Court,
Galen Place,
WC1A 2JR.
020 7404 5338
Early Monday quiz, last Monday of month.

For those of you who don’t recognise it, the statement above is one of the most famous political anagrams ever, and just seems quite relevant at the moment…

Quiz-wise, I take it all back (i.e. what I said about the John Baird Sunday quiz in last week’s posting).  We got there at 8.45 last Sunday to find out that apparently the other customers had been asked whether they wanted to take part in a quiz and it had been decided that there weren’t enough teams.  Hence, no quiz.  Never mind, we went to see Bobby in the Windsor Castle.

Thanks to Eddie for sending me a detail/change for one of the quizzes listed.  In terms of changes, I passed the White Bear in Hendon today and it seemed to be closed - so probably no Tuesday quiz there.  If anyone knows differently let me know.

The new Time Out Pubs and Bars guide is out, and that usually means details of some quizzes I hadn’t known about before.  I’ll alert you to any new listings over the next couple of weeks.

I haven’t been informed of any changes for the Bank Holiday, but check Monday quizzes are running before you set out…