World of Quiz

An American pub quiz full of geeks turn nasty when an naswer is given as Myanmar and everyone was tihnking that was Burma again. Ooft!

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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.

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

Naveen from Indian site Quizblogs.com was in touch and he had this to say about the questions on dpquiz.co.uk

By the way, I've noticed that the style of quiz questions is quite different in UK when compared to those we have in India. While your questions tend to be on whether on not someone KNOWS a particular bit of trivia, we guys actually try to

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

Jamie Miller from Quiz-Genius.com was in touch recently telling me about his book. ‘How To Become A Quizzing Genius',

The book claims that anyone can become as good as a professional quizzer in a short amount of time.

The book includes Miller's ‘brain tricks’ and

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?

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Alarm bells rang when one of my quizgoers said to me at Jenny Ha's the other day: "Here's a good pub quiz question for you:

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