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There are more than 6000 questions on this website and they're all free but if you want that kind of trivia power without having to turn on your PC or without having to trust your broadband connection to keep functioning, you might fancy getting it all in a book.

Quiz Master by Nick Holt claims to contain 5000 trivia questions in one volume. From my own personal experience of putting this site together, I can tell you: that is a bunch of questions.

I haven't seen it myself but the reviews on Amazon are decent enough, although one reviewer complains that the questions are too hard for the elderly. I guess you can't have everything.

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There's a good idea: do a walking otur for tourists or corporate groups and throw in a pub quiz as you go.

This is an enterprise that's happening in London now and you can find out about it at www.pubquizwalks.com

According to the site, there are 12 of these walks per year, but it looks like these are perhaps concentrated into the summer, as the next one is on March 14th.

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Putting a decent quiz together is a pain enough, with haveing to translate it into another language. That's what they do at Beerlingual, a twice-a-week pub quiz in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I'm impressed, and I also like their

Sky Sport prices are going up and publicans are considering other options, including hiring pub quizzes, according to this great article on The Publican website.

From a quiz perspective there are some interesting figures from a pub called the Three Compasses in North London where the landlord found that “Sky-related customers” spent £4.50 per head, about a pint and a half, per event (gross profit £2.25) compared to quiz night customers, who spent

TIE, the company building Edinburgh's trams are under criticism in this spending-outrage article in the Herald, but an interesting detail is that in April 2007, they spent £1032 on a staff quiz night at

There were plans to reclassify SWP (Skill With Prizes) machines, aka quiz machines as gambling and therefore make them subject to other taxes but the HMRC have now ruled that quiz machines "do not contain an element of chance" and therefore are not subject to Amusement Machine Licence Duty (AMLD).

What do they mean by no "element of chance" Do they mean that there's no chance of winning?

Story originally reported in Morning Advertiser

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I recently promised you a  review of Quiz Night Chief, which is a piece of software designed by an Australian company called Oakfocus and intended for use by quizmasters.

The full price version costs $35 USD but you can also get a free trial.

I gave it a whirl this week and discovered that

Univeristies and schools remain sniffy about Wikipedia as a factual resource even though I remember

Plans are in place for an charity event this March which will break the world record for the largest ever pub quiz.

The Family Holiday Association is planning to

Thanks to Andy Bee in Bournemouth who tipped me off to this 100-question quiz of 2009 on FemaleFirst.co.uk which has plenty of good, up to date 2009 material for quizmasters who need to have stuff from this year.

This is ideal fodder for those Heat-type questions which all you quizmasters are too busy being too grown-up to care about!

In other words, there are questions about SuBo and Gwen Stefani.

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