QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - PULLING THE PUNTERS BACK INTO YOUR PUB
It’s official - simple sets of quiz questions and answers
are amongst the most foolproof ways for publicans to get business
booming. The humble pub quiz is back on the rise and is making quiet
week-nights a thing of the past for struggling publicans. Trivia hounds
are now busting a gut joust their intellect against each other, empty
their pockets and fill their hollow legs all at the same time - publican
perfection.
Numerous pubs are moth-balling the big
television screens in favour of a quizmaster - armed with a pencil and a
bundle of quiz questions and answers. Why? Because Monday night sports
fans don’t drink enough to cover the cost of the satellite TV
subscription. Pub quizzers on the other hand, appear to drink by the
barrel-load. Maybe lubricating their memory banks?
Marcus
Berkmann sets a weekly pub quiz at The Prince of Wales in Highgate,
north London.“Oh you can tell they are on the rise,” he says. “Landlords
tell me that quizzers drink a lot. You start at 8.30pm and by 11pm
everyone’s drunk. Quizzers knock it back. People say football is the
thing you have to have in a pub, but people watching football will often
sit there and nurse a pint. They are really not always that profitable,
given how much it costs to show the matches.”
SO WHY ARE PUB QUIZZES SO ATTRACTIVE?
Maybe
this comes from the ego-polishing and self-importance you get from
scrawling all over the quiz answer sheet with your extensive knowledge
of society, geography, sports, European royality, and other completely
useless trivia? Maybe not.
Maybe it is because when
confronted with a majorly annoying group of quiz questions and answers
you thrive on the mental gymnastics? Searching amongst the furthest
reaches of your grey matter, (which, let’s face it, has lost a few
neurons over the years) for that long forgotten nugget of wisdom that IS
IN THERE SOMEWHERE can be a proper mind workout. You just know if you
can hold your head, sighing and wingeing for long enough, muttering
‘It’s on the tip of my tongue - give me a few more seconds…’ Not going
to happen.
Or maybe it is because of the bonne amie
amongst team buddies, the back-slapping and high-fives when an answer is
correct and the shared commiseration when the answer is not quite so
correct. Definitely not.
The actual reason that pub
quizzes are so sought out is because no matter how many quiz questions
and answers are headed in your direction, no matter how many you get
right, no matter whether you are triumphant or defeated, it really is a
brilliant night out.
WHAT MAKE PUB QUIZ NIGHTS SPECIAL?
Pub
quiz nights are like no other. The atmosphere changes from quiet and
subdued early doors to warm and buzzy as it fills up with teams of
varying sizes and combinations. As the teams settle and prepare for the
volley of quiz questions and answers, the pub is tense with anticipation
that erupts into excitement as the event begins.
This
fever pitch continues until the final round is completed and the prizes
are awarded when at last the quizzers relax, ponder over the quiz
questions and answers and discuss their pride and humiliation together.
There
will be triumphant rounds. There will be drinks to ease the ache of
losing. Yes, above all there will be more drinks. And crisps. And nuts.
Pub
landlords are experiencing their quiz nights bring together an strange
bunch of individuals with nothing in common but their thirst for general
knowledge and a mid-week chance to get out of the humdrum, have a drink
and a giggle, and maybe, just maybe win a tenner in the process.
All this fun and all this surplus custom - from a simple set of quiz questions and answers!
See the main menu for your free quiz questions (with answers!) or visit
http://www.quizknight.co.uk to download loads more!
