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It isn’t all about Google-proofing your quiz questions
/0 Comments/in Pub Quiz /by Jack Waley-CohenOne of my Facebook friends posted a link to a story in the Manchester Evening News: “Quizmaster devises Google-proof questions to stop pub quiz smartphone cheats” It makes a decent feature but in my view it isn’t news. As the comments on the article suggest (and as readers of this blog will know), quizmasters have […]
Organise yourselves into teams of 4
/5 Comments/in Pub Quiz /by Jack Waley-CohenWhat is the optimum size for a pub quiz team? The two great team based TV shows of our age, ‘Only Connect’ & ‘University Challenge’, would suggest that 3 or 4 is a good number, but really for a pub quiz that is often going to be too small. For TV it is a small […]
Taking the Quiz … (Part 1)
/4 Comments/in Pub Quiz /by David McGaugheyRumour has it that a working title for the Super Furry Animals’ 1999 album ‘Guerrilla’ was ‘Text Messaging is Destroying The Pub Quiz As We Know It’. So, 12 years on, were the Welsh wizards accurate prophets of doom, or were they putting too little faith in the good nature of the humble pub quiz […]
Born in the 1990s
/5 Comments/in Quiz Questions /by Jack Waley-CohenAt a comedy club I regularly attend, the compere will always pick on a young looking chap in the audience, and ask him what year he was born in…inevitably, if he is under 21 and the answer is 1990-something then the whole audience gasps “No way”, “1990! That’s so young!”, “How can someone born in […]