Monday night pub quiz at The Arc

thanks Kay

I assumed it was something with official NATO languages but as far as I'm aware the only official NATO languages are English and French so that doesn't really fit

Yes

(I almost felt bad that he split the money with me because he earned the lions share of the points)

I say strict adherance to 4 per team, glass partitions, separate colored wrist bands and name tags for each team should be enforced. Once the quiz starts, if anbody tries to get anywhere within 3 meters of any team, that person should be permanantly banned from entering the bar. I can't believe some people think QN is all about having fun.

3 meters is a little lenient. I think they should just close and lock the doors at 8 pm exactly and if you aren't there, you don't play. There should also be pat downs so that no mobile devices, newspapers, or trivia books of any kind are allowed in the quiz area to avoid cheating.

Did not think the ticklish Daisy would want a comprehensive pat down

If it was a comprehensive pat down while making out... well, that's another story.

You could always suggest it as prize for next week?

But only for teams of at least seven.

At least 7?
Well, in that case, everyone that pays should all just be on one big team - that way everybody wins!

Just for the record:
I was part of the team with 7 people. The main thing at quiz night is for us to have fun. We do not care whether we win or lose. Since we have little hopes of winning anyways, we think it doesn't matter how many people we are. We are just a group of people who want to meet up and have fun. Further more, sometimes we don't know who is coming to the quiz. So we might be 4 people at the start of the quiz, then another friend turns up later on. As Hazza already said, we certainly want him/her to sit with us. We rather have our friend with us than winning the quiz. As it happened yesterday, some people of our team came late and some left early. So what?
We ended up on the 7th place anyways, so we didn't even come close to winning. So what's the big deal?
Sometimes I reckon it's even harder to play with a lot of people because it's more difficult to decide on one answer when there's a lot of different opinions.
Anyways, that's just my opinion.

Wait, didn't your team have "Willie" from "Willie Wills Wissen"? Wasn't he a font of knowledge?

I think there is strange connection between the two.

May be you should play alone to win the first prize

hey applejuice,
You also had Shaggy on your team which is a minus three handicap so you really only had four people.

Sounds like this quiz night is a laugh. If I come along next week will you all be nice to me, even I get a few questions wrong? I am not very clever. I should have be born with a diferent hair colour really.

It is not possible to get anything wrong at QN so don't worry. Just come along.

Thanks! Will think about it and seriously try not to let me talk myself out of it this time. Though this may be a silly question, how would i recognise which group of people to walk up to and jump into the flames with?

PS, Nice pic of Apu with the Squishy Girl in your profile!!!

Well observed Anthony! Yeah, he helped a little bit, but he came late and left early, so the rest of the time we were lost


And we also had three Germans, which is a further minus three handicap. So basically it was actually only a one-man-show.

Yeah, join the fun and get in touch with your inner blond
(yes, I am naturally blond)

Just come on in. Practically everyone in the bar that night is playing the quiz. Get there around 7:45, mention quiz night and that you don't have a team. A few teams will most likely be needing more people.

Just a quick reminder - next week will be the last quiz night for the year before Matt takes a well deserved break. He will be away in NZ in the new year, so it will be the last quiz he hosts until February.

There will be no quiz on 19/12, 26/12 and 2/1. Quiz will return after that on 9/1 with a replacement quiz master who will take Matt's place for a few weeks.

who will it be?
Muzza? or you?*

*if it's you, will you get someone else to write the geography questions, cos yours are too hard

Word on the street is that Matt will be supplying a bunch of questions to be used in his absence.

Quiz Night!
Quiz Night!

my last one in a long while.

I think it's the last for Dr Matt until mid-Jan too?

Will be there with some new faces on my team. Let's get a good turn-out!

I missed the last so I will be there tonight cuz this is the last one for this year.

It's actually the last one of the year tonight

And it's the last one that Matt will host until the start of February...

"et tu rocket boy?"

it doesnt take long to be forgotten and disposed of

well if one of the new faces on rocket boy's team is rocket girl, I'd say the rest of the teams are screwed...

Nope...

@bucket, you can always be our first reserve if the rocket boys have dumped you so unceremoniously
i think we have a full turn-out tonight, looking forward to a good quiz, I haven't been for a couple of weeks

But you outta town P! Right?

My usual team not going tonight so anyone with a spare space?

I have 3 spare spaces!

I believe I am already on a team
take care,
space

take me, take me!!!

wish i could make a quiz night sometime! i work every mon pm! hopefully can get a mon pm off sometime in jan when i return... hope you guys had fun!

It was a fun night - I'm happy to have taken 2nd place with Jules Winnfield, Bumpy, and benpanter. Cheers to showem, UpQuark, greg, and Topsy for yet another outstanding performance (you bastards ).

Oh yes please

Hmm, it seems you do better when I'm not on the team...

@hippo: No... think we were just lucky with the questions.

This gentleman's gentleman's gentleman was on the same team as himself and if we hadn't overruled his obvious depth of knowledge about Viennese vineyards then we'd have pipped DW and co for second. Such is fate so I'll just have to grin and bear it. Sorry, Sir! Everyone was still flipping miles behind the usual suspects though.

Just to let those people know who weren't at the quiz last night; because Matt's still around next week, we decided to hold a poll at short notice last night, of those people in attendence to see who would want to come and do the quiz again next Monday if it was on. We got enough interest to have 1 more for the year.

So next Monday there will be another quiz.

But this will definitely be the last one of the year!!

And I should like to join for that evening. Anyone needing a fourth man please pm me.

Just a quick reminder:

Last week was supposed to have been the last week of the quiz for the year, however we took a quick poll on the night to see who would go if it was on again this week, and quite a few people said yes.

So this week is the last time we'll have the quiz on this year (for sure) Matt is also going to be away for all of January, so this will also be the last one he's hosting for a while.

Well, I'm in! Cya there!

Imperfect Tetrahedron will be looking for a couple (i.e. two) players.

when is the quiz starting up again?
will there be one on Jan 2nd?

No...starting again on 9 Jan.

Is this on still next monday? I'll be in town and ready to revive the GDSM