Ivan’s here this week, for the first time in ages. He has not lost his ability to answer uncannily obscure cricket questions, but neither has he lost his tendency to say the answers to questions just a little bit too loudly. Lionel Richie, Oasis, the Jam and Lisa Stansfield all released songs called [...]

I used to arrive at the Prince of Wales half way through the first round, but these days I’m getting less punctual and I usually arrive just after it’s finished. This week I miss a question asking for the second to sixth largest countries in the world, which is a shame, because I know [...]

I’m early this week - the first round is not yet over when I leap off the bus and into the pub at 9.20pm. I’m just in time to tell the team that the Ealing comedy which took its name from a Tennyson poem. And I also tell them the answer to a [...]

Stu’s team name is very prescient - I’ve just bought Music Is My Sanctuary by Gary Bartz, and it’s fantastic. But it turns out he hasn’t guessed that I’ve been buying 1970s funk records, he’s just noting the fact that I’m even less punctual than normal this evening. Working at a university was [...]

The team is just Stu and I tonight. The only time I’ve done well in a team of two here at the Prince of Wales was when Oli and I cheated, so I fear a challenging evening. Things start badly in the first round when we are asked whether it’s crickets, grasshoppers or [...]

My friend Quinn is here tonight. I met her in Albania, she’s from Australia, and she makes me realise what a horribly anglocentric thing a pub quiz can be. There are endless questions about cricket, counties and television programmes that no-one from beyond these shores would ever care about. That said, I [...]

Our team name tonight is Stu’s idea. We like it a lot but feel that Stu should have the honour of writing it out on our team sheet. By the end of the night he’s just writing “Greetings!” and the quiz setters have long since stopped reading it all out anyway.
We are six [...]

After last week’s horrific placing we’re hoping for better this week. Things look good for the first two rounds, but then we collapse spectacularly, scoring just five points in total over rounds two and three. Once again, all our hopes are pinned on the snowball.
There is 600 pounds in the pot. The [...]

Tonight the team is me, Oli and my friend Eldrik, who knows lots about tennis and mountain bikes. In all the time I’ve been coming to the Prince of Wales I think there have been two questions about tennis, and none about mountain bikes, but never mind. We start off by correctly guessing [...]

I’ve been off travelling around the Balkans for the last few weeks, so I’m hoping for questions like “What is the newest country in the world?”, “What is the second-newest country in the world?”, and “Is Podgorica the most boring capital city in the world?”, the answers to which are of course Kosovo, Montenegro and [...]