As for the quiz itself, if you wanted your pub to have a quiz night but wanted to make the absolute minimum of effort it would look something like the Alwyne’s. The questions and quiz sheets were bought off the internet. The prizes were just the cash entry fees. The quizmaster felt like a member of the bar staff who had been asked to read out the questions for the night.
For all that, it wasn’t actually that bad, just lacking in a bit of character. There were a couple of interesting rounds. We particularly enjoyed the ‘Wipeout’ round, get all 10 questions right and get 5 bonus points, get a single question wrong and you get no points. Having said that there were also 5 questions on Miss World. I mean, really? This is North London in the 21st century? Surely they should be asking us to name the top 5 best-selling authors of feminist literature or something?
On to the scores...
Quiz Master: 2
Question Quality: 4
Competition: 6
Refreshments: 8
Pace: 4
Format: 7
Prizes: 2
Ambience: 6
The High Point:
A toss-up between working out the name of the Scottie Dog in the Fred Basset cartoons just from the last letter of his name being a ‘K’1 or figuring out the connection between John Grisham, Sir Francis Drake, Louisiana and Julia Roberts2 (although if any of us had seen the state flag of Louisiana this wouldn’t have felt like such an accomplishment).
The Low Point:
None of us being able to recall the name of the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.3
What we learnt:
Las Vegas has been a city for 100 years. Who’d have thought it?
1 - Jock
2 - Pelican
3 - Bernard Hogan-Howe
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