I do try to keep it simple at the Candy Bar but last night we had a team who guessed that the team who play in red shirts at Old Trafford are Manchester City. Then I had a photo from…
Full Rick Roll – Getting Married
Just going through photos and I remembered this pair who were at the Brass Monkey Drummond St a few months ago. They got married fairly recently and the thing I remembered to write down from our conversation was “Got Married…
People At The Quiz
One of the young team was chatting about a couple of new people who played with their team last night. I asked if they had been any help. “Well there was this guy called Ben and he’s from the Democratic…
How Much Is Lego?
People you meet at the quiz. So there’s someone who I know at the quizzes and I said “What have you been up to lately?” and she said she had bought lego. Great. Lego is superb stuff. Toy of the…
Beware The Shabby Millionaires
D___ comes to the quiz and I know him from working in various pubs around town. He was saying to me the other night that one place he works in is full of millionaires who, by various rouotes, have come…
How’s The Grief Going?
The best wrong answer in last night’s quiz at Brass Monkey Leith was in the list round. I asked teams to name the Five Stages of Grief (aka the Kubler-Ross model) Most teams got at least three or four out…
Wednesday 1st December 2021
Jesus Christ. It’s December. Christmas party people are not necessarily the worst people in the world. There are always Nazis, foxhunters, Tory landlord scum, Harold Shipman, and others ahead of them on the list. But they are near the top of…
The Quizmaster Is Not Always Right, part 442.
“The Quizmaster is Always Right” is a statement from yesteryear. It was oft-heard in the 90s, before people had access to the entire store of human knowledge right there in their pockets. The modern quizmaster always strives to be right…
Simon Dupree And The Big Sound Alert
Psychedelic George from Team Spirit (at Brass Monkey) has asked me a few times about Simon Dupree And The Big Sound. I says “Naw – I never heard of them” But when I finally get round to looking them up…