Pub Quizzes - pubtastic or pub bores?

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carsmile how could you forget A?! and also A+ (not sure if they're before A1 actually)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.warnermusic.com.au/images/artists/a_hifi_cover.jpg

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

They have a quiz in the Doublet these days?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely the first band alphabetically is .45 Special?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, they have a quiz in the Doublet. If Robbie turns up on here, he knows the story (he did the quiz for a bit I think).

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Downstairs or upstairs?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Big up to The Village pub quiz in Walthamstow - Stuey is the greatest quizmaster in town. Does anyone still go to this?

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

i went to the Village quiz once but the guy doing it was a complete nonce - forcing us to listen to Spacehog and Warm Jets and telling us how good they were. we won tho.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

haven't been to the Village in ages, we did win last time out though. That Spakealike is a bit annoying, but Steve caught him at his very worst.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

the quizmaster at The Griffin (Shoreditch) is very good, must go back there (for BIG MUHNEEEE)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

The trouble with quizzes are there all on on the same night - Mondays - thereby precluding them become major earners

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Tuesday is more common in my experience but your point stands, i think

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Point me to a Tuesday quiz immediately!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i can think of several but none with a big CASH prize

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

how about the won ton?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I think robbie did the doublet, once.

is there any point in having questions, that no-one knows the answers to (including the quizmaster, if not for his piece of paper)?

I asked PF, to tell me the first line of 'ulysses', from memory, and he did but he wasn't totally SURE, that he'd got it exactly CORRECT and, now, I can't REMEMBER, either. it was definetly RIGHT, though. what a question.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"Plump, stately Buck Mulligan..." etc

Of course, that's as far as I ever got with "Ulysses", ha ha

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

But won't all the questions be about herring and whalemeat?
-- Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (kcoyne3...), September 28th, 2004

Possibly not all that interesting coincidence -- when I started going to the first pub quiz in Norway a couple of months after it started (by an Englishman, obv), our team name was "Jedermann sein eigner Fussball"!

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Now that's downright spooky!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a pop quiz in a local pub which is insanely difficult (The Prom in Bristol, for anyone who's ever been to it) and half marks are normally enough to win. Sample questions - When did Gordon Haskell join and leave Stackridge? Who appears, but is uncredited, on record x? (I can't remember which song it was, but the answer was Solomon Burke) What is the link between Metallica and Head Of David?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Hold on, Gordon Haskell was in Stackridge?!!??!!? Stackridge - West Country band, all makes sense.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Big up to The Village pub quiz in Walthamstow - Stuey is the greatest quizmaster in town. Does anyone still go to this?
-- Huey

i went to the Village quiz once but the guy doing it was a complete nonce - forcing us to listen to Spacehog and Warm Jets and telling us how good they were. we won tho.
-- Freelance Hiveminder

haha he ALWAYS plays the Warm Jets! Very strange. Huey's right tho, it's a great quiz, and bloody hard too, which is always fun.

I went to the quiz at The Winchester on Archway road last night. I lost our team a round of shots by wrongly convincing all six of them that the most frequently-picked lottery number was one of my regular numbers. They thus swapped the correct answer for one of mine, and we lost.

It all got ugly when one of our team then got the quizmaster to announce that not only did we lose because of me, but also, I own the entire back catalogue of Chris de Burgh. Bastards. Good quiz anyway...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link

What is the link between Metallica and Head Of David

Argh, this is going to bug me all day now.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Both recorded covers of Budgie songs ("Breadfan" and "In The Grip Of A Tyrefitters Hand" respectively). Question made all the more difficult by Head Of David not actually releasing their track.

Gordon Haskell was in Stackridge between leaving King Crimson and releasing his solo album "It Is And It Isn't" - his Stackridge legacy appears only to be "(No-one's More Important Than) The Earthworm". We got no points because I didn't know exactly which months of 1971 that period encompassed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

the Village quiz is in no way that hard Charlie

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU CALLIN ME FICK?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

you're so thick even the custard is jealous

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Charlie - explain please how you can own the whole of Chris de Burgh's back catalogue whilst being embarassed about it. am I missing something here? Is it your guilty pleasure??

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

My embarrassment stemmed, naturally, from the actual fact that my CdeB collection stutters to a halt in 1988, and he's had plenty more albums since then.

Counter-argument: he's been shit since 1980.

("since 1980")

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sure I remember robbie & steve.

they asked for the first four words.

"stately," plump buck milligan... ?

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"Man On The Line" - never a truer word.

Did't CdeB got all concepty around the time of "Crusader"?

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

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