Monday night pub quiz at The Arc

Every Monday during Winter is The Arc Quiz night.

For the up-to-date current details and discussion see this link:

Pub Quiz - Mondays @ The Arc

The discussions below are the archives from previous weeks.

Cool! I love quizzes! (even tho I'm crap!) How many people needed for a team? (people, do not let prior comment put you off!!)

Grrr - I would've loved to have gone to this when I was living here...booo.

oh that's a good idea!, would certainly be up for it once in a while

So, who's up for making a team?

Topsy and I are planning on a team. We used to regularly rake it in at O'Reillys. Sadly, often placing 2nd, whose prize was a flat of Guinness, which neither of us really drinks.

Hmmm, tempting, what kind of questions?

ooh this sounds like an activity for me as well!

@ showem and topsy: can I be on your team since you are winners?

Hmm... only if you promise to talk too much about touch rugby and have an area of expertise beyond the history of Wales.

ooh, that sounds fun. i've never done one of these quiz night things.

I could be in on this...haven't gone to a quiznight in awhile.

7:30 start is not too late for a school night, and I shouldn't have too much work to do on Monday evening. I'll be up for joining someone's team.

the pub quiz at o'reillys was terrific - set the standard that no others have matched since. an english guy phil used to do it - not seen him for ages though. liverpool fan so maybe it's not so bad.
hope the one at the arc is as good.
the only problem at o'reillys was that it got too many people and the prizes became well worth winning (over 150Euros for a winning team) and so some teams started SMSing friends at home for answers. gits.

I think i can manage that!


how about rugby as an area of expertise? Seriousloy though, I know everything, ask Gen she will confirm this

so this is tonight then, is it? Damn, I need a team...

Over the weekend, a few of us got together a team - think the definites were canuck, chewy, SteveNZ, Tartan and me. Are you guys all still up for this? Don't think I missed anyone off. So BB, there will be space on out team if the rules are that it is to be teams of 6. Interested?

Hey Petal, you forgot me !

Oh man, sorry pepper. Yeah I remember speaking to you (after spending all day at the wiesn), but I didn't think you were a def! So you are coming tonight then? BB - looks like you will have to set up another team, unless someone pulls out. Sorry.

I'm a def ! might as well keep my alcohol levels topped up, am off to Sweden next week, and the darn beer is just too expensive there !

no worries petal! happens when you travel as much as I've been this month. will float and drink (and vice versa) and hence bear no responsibilities...

@BB: If we happen to win any huge prizes through the quiz ... it'll go towards helping you drink and float (or float and drink) all night long!! You have my word!! Happy BDay!

I talked to the quizmaster last night (yess, I have connections...) and he himself didn't know how many people the teams would be restricted to. Hazza was in no fit state to be making important decisions like that either last night, so we shall see. We talked about the possibility of putting a Faraday's Cage around the pub to stop cheaters from SMSing, but we didn't get far.

yeah - no sms-cheaters!!!
@hazza, can't you collect all handys on the way in to the pub or something?

im still in, thinking cap currently being located.

if memory serves (which it usually doesn't after evenings at the Arc), my "handy" (ugh, memories of this meaning something else entirely in high school) doesn't get reception down there.

@canuck - oooh, thanks!

@BB I was about to post that too. My memory serves to tell me the same thing. May not hold for all providers / phones though.

Two different mobiles from 2 different providers had full coverage yesterday downstairs.

D2 works down there. So if you've got a D2 handy...you'll win the quiz!!! No Faradays cage tonight...Hazza can't pull that off...he's not that smart!!

EDIT: Hazza's the greatest barman in the world, but he doesn't strike me as a physicist. Although one can never tell...

With T-Mobile I even get coverage in Murphy's which surprised me a little. Vodafone is not so good once you go below ground level.

could be. I've got T-Shite.

@canuck - now, now, don't bite the hand that gives you drinks. Hazza is brilliant!

edit: ok, if pepper gets reception with T-Shite, then maybe it is my memory that's faulty. getting older and all, you know...

l'll come too and squeeze onto someone's team.
my specialised subject: looking out of the window while bored at work

oooh, I'm good at that today... getting a tan here!

I would join but it starts at 7.30 tonight, right? I have Yoga in Pasing until 7.30 so couldn't make it before 8.

Guess I'll wait until the course finishes, then I can come.

Although I have connections, they had nothing to do with us winning the quiz tonight. Heh heh heh. Great work from Dr. Matt on the quiz, I think everyone would agree it was well run and the questions were fun.

yes, it was fun
thanks to Dr Matt
even more fun, because we won, and I just love to win

Great Fun
And i think my team had the best ethos, if we start by losing we have something to aim for by the end of the winter. And that sense of fulfilment when one day all the questions are on engineering, and we might stand a chance!
Great night guys.

We lost...But, at least I knew the capital of Australia is Melbourne. I got one right...whoohoo...

Is that a joke Canuck?

I can't believe you even asked...

Maybe I should have said Alice Springs to be more obvious...

No you're right - not firing on all cylinders today

(Foxy skulks off muttering to herself that she must not post whilst half asleep)

Esther and me will be a quiz team on monday night and we are still looking for volunteers to join in...preferably extremely intelligent and good looking ...

Is my team from last week joining me again ? We have a base to build on here, we finished last, we can only go up from here.

Hey,

Newbie here. I'll be going to watch some football today, and would love to go quiz night tomorrow. I'll just watch the first night, to get a feel for the questions, but I would love join a team for the future, and hope to meet lots of you there.

Michelle

Who's up for going to quiz night tonight? I was thinking of stopping by after the tex mex at bondi.

Err ? What time is the Tex-Mex, I think they clash. Quiz night starts at 7:30pm.

What time does the quiz finish? When did it finish last week?

I have a feeling that I am just going to go for Tex Mex then head back t'country oooh aaarrr

Anyway, I will be at the quiz night.

Yep, becs and I will also defo be at quiz tonight.

Harry said he could postpone the quiz for 30 min (texmex thread), but if no one is going to point there is no point in doing that. I don't know how long it goes on for.

Last week it started at 7:30pm and finished around 10:00, I think.