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Is there going to be any decent competition for the Hoopers Pub Quiz tonight?


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I was well impressed by having someone else name their quiz team after me. Fame indeed. But you have to agree it's a shit quiz. And only 6 teams in it. How much did you 'win'?

Also questions were asked about the fact that your lot seemed to have exactly the same wording for some of your answers as us. Coincidence or something more sinister?

The Plough's on a Thursday. I've yet to try it so it'd be a neutral venue. Hoping to get along next week though, as always, it's dependent on the babysitting situation.

We won over ?40 which seems a pretty good return - I don't think Hoopers keep any of the pot.


"Also questions were asked about the fact that your lot seemed to have exactly the same wording for some of your answers as us. Coincidence or something more sinister?"


Ha - that's brilliant - we spent most of the night getting annoyed with each other as we thought we were saying the answer too loud and have fallen foul (we suspect) in the past of what you are suggesting. Not a chance any of our team would do that.


"the same wording" - give me an example...


I think I've now worked out which team you were at least.


I'll see what I can do re: Thursday but as most of us have "babysitting" issues too we don't make it down that often (which is nice for other quiz goers to get a chance at winning :))


Finally - something for you to peruse until we compete again...

Jamma Wrote:

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> Oh Mr(s) Nutty, you are soon to feel the force of

> a fully operational quiz machine.

> And once we are finished with you we shan't return

> to Hoopers we'll move on and you'll keep going

> there and you'll win again but you'll always know

> that any future wins just don't really count

> because somewhere out there is a crack quiz team

> who could crush you on a whim.


You may go to The Plough and win but you'll always know it doesn't really count because somewhere out there is a crack quiz team who can (and has) crushed you on a whim...

  • 3 weeks later...

No idea Jamma re: The Vale, but I know that the music quiz at the George Canning was fiendish


(is that quiz still going btw? It was always teetering on the edge of not happening but good fun nevertheless)

  • 2 weeks later...

No we were at the George Canning on the Tuesday night. But I can exclusively reveal that there is no quiz on a Tuesday night at the Canning. Bah.

Next up it's the Prince Regent in Herne Hill.

Returning to Hoopers time after time shows a lack of ambition Mr Nutty. How many teams did you have to 'defeat' this time? 2?

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