Monday night pub quiz at The Arc

Hair rock was great - singalongtastic. Shame there were no points for getting the songs only (Warrant and Skid Row - arggggg, but could we sing them? Oh yeah).
People who do not smile to Kiss songs need slapping as a general rule.

music round was the crappest i've ever heard
chock-full of songs that i would rush to turn off if they came on the radio
i'm quite proud of the fact that i only knew 2 of them, really

still, the rest of the quiz was good

Oh dear. Must be a shame that the quiz was not geared to your tastes eh Topsy? You need to suck up to SiM more on your trips to work...

he's got a new job, crawlie, he doesn't take me to work any more
anyroad, hazza did the music round last night
i had high hopes, but it was all bon jovi, def lepperd, whitesnake kind of stuff - utter tosh, in other words

Whitesnake are notable for one reason - when you meet a 19 year old bird, you can remind yourself that that "Here I Go Again" was in the charts whilst they were still being breast-fed.
Good for perspective.

There's nothing worse than having your record (yep vinyl) & CD collection examined as if it was a museum collection. Freebird Picture Disk anyone?

Freebird=awesome
The solo bit when you are drunk=super awesome
Picture disks=not really so awesome

could be worth a fair bit on ebay, though but

Freebird??? It is all about the solo... Fast forward to the solo and play away for bloody hours. What more would you want?

Bah. We made a strong start but slipped up badly in the picture round and the "music" round was nothing short of a disaster. 80s hair rock FFS. What a load of shite.

Ach well, that's the way it goes. Some times the rounds suit and sometimes they don't. Next weeks quiz will be the last before the Christmas break.

Also as there was a 4-2-1 to a 1-2-4. Shouldn't there be a Bottom 3 to a Top 3 question?

True, but its a lot harder to come up with the bottom three things in most lists.

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that tonights quiz wil be the last one before the Christmas break. There will be no quiz next Monday Dec 25th. I could possibly do one on the 1st of Jan if there were enough people around that are interested playing. Otherwise the next quiz would be on Jan 8th.
Please post or tell me if you might be around on the 1st and whether you would consider doing the quiz or not.

As usual for all newbies or anyone else that is interested but doesn't have team, don't let that put you off. Just come on down before 8:00 and we will set you up or alternatively just post here tha you are looking for a team and see if you get any takers.

Hope to see you later,
SIM.

Can we expect a seasonal theme*.

That's Christmas to any evangelical nutters out there.

I'll be here on the 1st Jan and wouldn't mind doing the quiz.
You could have a special hangover theme for the New Year's Day quiz

I'm not very good at trivia. But I will try and make it, if anyone will have me on their team.

Come along, I'm sure that somebody will have you on their team.
And yes I reckon you can expect a little bit of a seasonal theme...

Our team will be eating homemade mince pies and Christmas Cake. Should be called 5 Gold Rings (of Arc-burger-yumness) or something because we're a 5 this week (well, it isn't like we are actually going to win but we will sing while we're losing instead).

Dunno whether I'll be able to make it tonight as I have the black cloud of work hanging over my head.

koubiak - I'll say for sure later on this afternoon whether I'll be there or not.

Feel a bit strange ... so I might come along.

I am in XabiAlonso So I hope you can free yourself. Screw the work, quizz is more important !

And for the 1st of January I will come with 2 others peoples.

koubiak, I've got a fair bit out of the way so I should be able to make it. Might be a bit late though. If you can, grab another couple of teammates (our resident "expert" on US issues is absent tonight) and enter our team. I'm sure it'll all work out!

I try to do my best

Just a quick reminder to let you know that the quiz is on tonight, so whether you are a regular or a newbie just put your thinking cap on and come on down to the Arc.
Even if you don't have a team you can always come along and find one on the night.
Hope to see you there later.

we shall be there... though I doubt our luck will be quite as in as it was on our last visit! winning the beer round, the shots AND coming second last... I think it was 'broke student luck'

I will be there, and hopefuly my team too.

Won't be able to make it tonight, sorry Koubiak - feeling a bit off-colour today so I'd best stay in.

Apologies also for last week's no show - my flight didn't get in until 8:30.

I understand Then I might change my plan too

I will see you next week I hope

Cheers to everyone that showed up last night and just a reminder to offer some suggestions for topics you would like a round of questions on.

Scottish inventors and inventions

sort of celebrity section, for those of us with an addiction to womens magazines and day time TV

Picture round:
Cartoon Characters

Music round:
Songs inspired by real world events - some can be "what was the event the song was about"
Comedy Songs

Standard round:
Ancient Weapons
Things they wish they never said
Famous Scandals
Biscuits named after revolutionaries*

*Its an Alexi Sayle joke and it may be difficult to do six questions.

Reminder: one round consists of six questions!

It's a pub-quiz and not a hairdressers-bingo-night...

Yes I know, but I trust Darren can pluck 6 from the myriad

Words that start with Q. Not that I ever attend.

i like helen's suggestion too. you don't need a weapons' round when you can a quiz on heat, ok and hello!
oscar dresses
fashion
TV series

German round.. please darren

No weapons, but Oscar dresses and fashion? It's a pub quiz and I bet ya there was, is and will be more weapons seen in a pubs worldwide, than fashion or even Oscar dresses! Apart of that, we guys would rather know, which cable we need to cut to stop a sowjet SS20 from detonating, than what colour Scarlett Johanson's last years oscar dress was (or if she even wore one...)! The quiz needs stay at fair!

yeah, like having to name 12 different kinds of dinosaurs is fair

"What' all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here, this is a local quiz for local people".

How about a catch phrase round.

facking too right it is

OK, but you do know who's to blame?

You could have a system where all teams have to select one round as an "opt out", before it starts, which won't count on a final score, sort of anti-joker.

I looked into doing a picture round on cartoon characters but it seems that a lot of their names don't stay the same in German.

a top3 on shoes or handbags sales could be interesting

Shouldn't be a problem though, can't you put down the answers in German anymore?

How bout a Rosamunde Pilcher round, a top three on pregnancy tests and instead of a beer-round a bonus round to win a young and fluffy carry-around-puppy?

I like the questions where you can actually learn something if you didn't know the answer already. Which is cool because that means I like most of the questions. Even when you lose, you still win.. if you know what I mean. More dinosaurs! N'stuff!

Knowing what colour someones dress was at some celebrity masturbatory gathering would be equivalent in the interesting charts to knowing what someone had for breakfast imho.

Hi everyone, just your usual reminder that the pub quiz is on again tonight in the Arc at 8pm. I hope to see all the regulars there and for any newbies or people without a team please come along as there is always places available on teams.
See you later.
SIM

Back in the game this week.

Koubiak - are you in?