Pub Quizzes

I was in the pub last night. After I had been in there for a couple of hours, a quiz started.

What is the point in pub quizzes in this day and age? Everyone just cheats on their mobile.

For example there was a 'name the artist' music round. I just put my iPhone on the table, loaded up the Shazam app and it identified every song whose artist I didn't know within 5 seconds.

They were

My Sharona - The Knack
Single - Natasha Bedingfield
Sugar Baby Love - The Rubettes

And all the other questions could be answered with Wikipedia.

I know it's supposed to be a bit of fun but I don't like to lose anything because someone else is a cheat.

There is a pub called The English Lounge in Manchester which has a proper, organised pub quiz. It takes place in an upstairs bar, separate from the rest of the pub, you are allowed no more than 4 in a team, and they have staff wandering round to check you are not cheating. You're actually not allowed to go into the loo during the 5 minute blocks where the questions are read out and your paper has been submitted. The pub mark the answers themselves, there's no collusion. It is brilliant. And there are decent prizes. Of course, my team always wins, because I am a clever twat.

So unless they are as the above, pub quizzes are totally pointless and should be scrapped. If Bolton Hater, Reebok Rebel and Amos want to win a meal at Chiquitos or some cinema tickets, they should PM me and we will form a team of the brightest minds on Bolton Nuts and storm the English Lounge's monthly quiz night.

Does your local pub run a quiz? Do you bother? Do you realise that everyone cheats and the pub only does it so you are stuck in there for hours?

I used to go to my "local" with my mates every tuesday when i was at UNI for the pub quiz.

Great fun, but as you say, the cheating crept into it more and more, smart phones weren't the norm back then but "txt" cheating was, basically just txting your mate at home all the answers questions and he'd look them up online.

It's a bit stupid really.

I prefer the famous faces round and things like that.

I've enjoyed a good pub quiz over the years - kept my old brain ticking over and all that.

I'm not very competitive but it did used to amaze me when people used to really cheat - what the fuck for?

The prizes where never very big - free drinks or money that you usually spent in the pubs for drinks anyway - but what pleasure is there in taking something you know you are not honestly entitled too?

I don't think I've ever cheated anyone out of anything in my life.

I used to have a bit of a brain at one time and often got asked to play in 'all-star' teams with the intention to be 'bandits' if you will and go around to other pubs to 'win' their pub prizes. I could never take things that seriously enough though to do it often though.

These days my memory as got to the stage that I hardly knowing what my own name is let alone knowing the quiz answers!

It was fun at the time though!

Blimey, The English Lounge - formerly known as The Hogshead. Used to go there for lunch most Friday lunchtimes with colleagues - the real ale was a favourite at that time of day as I could only drink 1 pint, if that. The food was excellent, hopefully it still is. Sometimes miss those days - all that was before we moved from Lowry House to Hardman Boulevard in which The Bridge became the Friday lunchtime place!



Not done a quizz night since university days - every tuesday me, and 3others, had a team in our local, near Crewe railway station, and we didn't do to bad at all and won about 40% of the time - well we were up against some of our lecturers!!!

So you complain about cheating when you cheat yourself?

And got to say, your regulated nights to the pub don't sound very good.. think you just need to enjoy your fiends company and have a few drinks, the quiz is of secondary importance. The people who get really upset about losing tend to be the type who arn't very fun to go to the pub with.

Just go to a decent local when the most popular beer consumed isn't fosters or carling and you'll find most people don't cheat.

I do agree though, cheating on a pub quiz has never made sense to me, even if you know others are cheating, it would be like watching pointless and googleing every answer.

Lofty_Love wrote:So you complain about cheating when you cheat yourself?

No, I wasn't in the quiz, I wasn't staying in the pub until closing, so didn't enter. It was going on around me. I was watching the cricket on the screen.

ah that makes more sense, I retract my comment

Lofty_Love wrote:ah that makes more sense, I retract my comment

To be fair, i should have made that clear in the first place - my bad.

I love pub quizzes. There's no cheating at the one I go to, because the signal there is diabolical for all networks.

There's; a picture round to start with; a "Read all about it" section, which are questions relating to stuff that's been in the news; a top 5 section where you get questions such as "What are the 5 most populous countries beginning with A?"; a "Trivia trail" round, where every answer begins with the last letter of the previous; a "Connections" round where you have to find a connection between 4 general knowledge questions, for instance, with 'black FOREST gateau', 'Buckingham PALACE', 'ALEXANDRA Burke' and 'Ash WEDNESDAY', the connection is that they are all football clubs; and a "Bonus Round" where there's a bonus 5 points for answering all 10 questions correctly, but by answering one incorrectly, you lose all your points from that round.

What pisses me off are teams of about 8 people.

There's always a team that take it more seriously than a world war as well.

Usually they're 35-45 years old, all wearing "classic rock" t shirts and have pony tails, but are balding at the front.