The Conservative Party has been desperately doing whatever they can to be more popular and it's working for them: they're favourites to be back in power next year for the first time since 1997.
Spotting the importance of pubs to people, the Tories are
Hull: A play called 'Pub Quiz is Life' begins a run today at
I have just finished a little bit of research to update the quiz calendar, during which I discovered, amongst other things, that
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Everybody's tweeting. But what are they saying about quizzes? Tweet of the week comes from the exotically named
DP Quiz is proud to announce the Books Change Lives online pub quiz. You can win 12 books, all signed by their authors, by entering the competition and
Everybody's tweeting. But what are they saying about the pub quizzes in their lives?
Tweet of the week comes from dcman007 said
"At the pub quiz. We got my brother-in-law with us this week. Sports round gonna get OWNED! http://twitpic.com/bqesj"
Which shows the need for taking a specialist along if you're actually trying to win a quiz.
A lot of people think quizzing is a male-dominated thing. To know trivia is to prove yourself as a man, but maybe not in every circumstance...
Tweet of the week comes from catdevnull who got ripped off by his or her local quizmaster...
Now you get quiz questions for special dates. The quiz calendar is a new tool
The Wee Man and Bratchy are a pair of comedy characters who claim that regular pub quizzes are "dull".
They have reacted to this dullness by creating
Spotted: an article from New Zealand which goes inside the mind of a quiz sceptic who becomes a pub quiz fan.
The writer, Matt Lawrey, starts off by saying "I thought there was something a bit quaint about quiz nights. They always struck me as an activity for people who needed excuses to go to the pub and talk to people."
But after being recruited to a team on the strength of his film knowledge he quickly gets int the swing of things: "a few pints of Murphy's Red and a large plate of nachos later, I had gone from friendly, joy-to-the-world, egalitarian Matt to ultra-competitive, take-the-bastards-down, quite probably fascist Matt. It wasn't a pretty sight but, damn, it felt good."
Read the whole article in The Nelson Mail
