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Five Points Available
/2 Comments/in The Friday Quiz /by David McGaugheyThe most popular feature of the Friday Quiz that I put together every week is the fifth question: the multi-answer question (usually worth five points). I tend to feel the success of each week’s Friday Quiz is defined by how good Question 5 is. It can be hard to come up with a good one. The […]
Prize Quiz Winners
/0 Comments/in News /by Jack Waley-CohenOn Friday 22nd June, we ran a special Prize Quiz. The questions and answers will stay online until 10th July if you want to take a look, and see how well you think you did. If you desperately want to know your exact score, then put your name in the comments box, and we’ll let […]
Ties and Climaxes
/3 Comments/in Running Quizzes /by Jack Waley-CohenWe try extremely hard to ensure that all of our quizzes have an exciting climax. Sometimes it is pretty obvious to everyone which team has won, because they have been doing well all the way through, but even then you can try and build in a bit of suspense by at least making the top […]
Mainstream Knowledge
/1 Comment/in Pub Quiz /by David McGaugheyI’ve already written in a previous blog post about how much I enjoy the BBC show ‘Pointless’ – one further positive I didn’t mention is that it actually serves as a fairly effective market research tool. So yes, I can watch the show as part of my job, which is nice. The show’s premise is based […]