Day Six: Any Questions?
on May 12 in Uncategorized by Dan
After my request yesterday for any questions from the audience my inbox has been bulging almost to capacity with a grand total of just under two emails. So without further ado I bring you the latest great interview to shake the very foundations of society.
Americanmum asks:
For us USofA folk – how exactly does a pub quiz work? Is it a team-based sport or individual? Are the questions generally geared to the average Brit (British pop culture, literature, etc) which might put Americans at a disadvantage? Is there a prize at the end?
There is no universally agreed format for a pub quiz, each place has it’s own particular way of doing it and so for ease I’ll just describe the quiz at my own pub of choice, the Rat and Ratchet.
Every Wednesday there is an open invitation within my circle of friends to meet up at the Rat and have a go at the quiz. Not everyone attends every week, the numbers can range between two and seven, but generally we have some representatives there to fight the good fight. Below is a roster of some of the regular participants, if I’ve left anyone out (Ross) it’s because I’ve not been able to find a photo of them.
Anyone in the pub who wants to participate in the quiz form themselves into teams of up to six people (officially that is; we’ve had a team of eight in the past). Each member pays 50p for the privilege of playing. You get a couple of pieces of paper: a sheet for your answers and also a picture round. the picture round sheet consists of badly photocopied photos to identify of celebrities or dinosaurs or superheroes or whatever the pub landlord has pulled off the web that week.
After giving you a bit of time to argue about the picture round and whether that is a photo of Paris Hilton or Pee-wee Herman the landlord reads out a series of 30 questions. Everyone huddles round their pints and argues with each other in whispers so the team on the next table can’t hear. There is a break half way through for you to buy more beer. At least twice during the quiz someone will pull out their mobile phone and attempt to find the answer on the internet. This is officially called cheating.
When the quiz is over you swop papers with a team nearby and laugh at all their stupid mistakes. The landlord reads out the answers and the papers are marked and handed back. You then scrutinize your answer sheet and grumble loudly about the pedantic bastards on the next table who marked an answer wrong because you misspelled hippopotamus.
The team who got the most answers correct get eight free pints of beer. Hurrah! We tend to win around a third of the time, because we’re dead clever. There is also a raffle to win the privilege of going up and answering a super hard question, if the raffle winner gets it right they win all the entrance money that was collected at the start of the quiz. If they don’t get it right the money is rolled over to the next week. These jackpots can get quite high sometimes; £100 is not unheard of.
An American participating would probably be at a disadvantage, as many of the questions are pretty UK biased. If you’re ever in Huddersfield on a Wednesday night you are more than welcome to join Kelly’s Heroes however.
Americanmum asks:
What is the strangest Google search that’s ever hit your blog? What about the strangest comment you’ve ever received on your blog?
I get a lot of hits for donkeyporn.com after mentioning it once on a past post. But the strangest google search has been:
I’m sure they can’t mean me though. Right?
As far as comments go, I once did a post on a TV program I had seen (It’s Not Easy Being Green) which ended up being featured of the BBC homepage. As a result I got a few comments and emails from people who thought I was actually one of the makers of the show. But they weren’t that strange really, just a little confused.
Americanmum asks:
Parakeets?
I’m not sure if you meant “What are parakeets?†or “Why did you keep parakeets?â€. In answer to the first question: They are like mini parrots. In answer to the second question: Because mini parrots are a hell of a lot cheaper than big parrots.
Hygiene Dad ask:
When will you do my meme?
I’ll do your meme next Hygiene Dad
Related posts:
- Great questions of our age
- Day One: Five questions
- World War III, the final battle. Part 1
- World War III. The first battle, part 1
- World War III. The second battle, part 1
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Not that I’m impatient or anything. :)
Good God that photo’s bad. I look like Badly Drawn Boy.