Acre Rigg Social Club, Peterlee
With my move out of the area pending I am trying to visit the last few local quizzes that I am aware of but have never yet been too. Last night it was the turn of Acre Rigg Social Club in Peterlee and their Tuesday night quiz. This was nit just the first time I had been to this quiz in 2012 but the first time ever. I knew very little about the quiz format etc before heading up to the Club last night but it turned out to be a fun quiz and an enjoyable step on The Quiz Trek 2012.
The venue itself was perfectly fine, very friendly people, cheap drinks (always helps) and a large function room dedicated to the quiz. Fair enough they ran a Bingo game first, which I pretend to myself I do not enjoy but actually do, before heading into the main quiz. There was about 8 teams competing and again we were by far the youngest pair, but that matters little as everyone was welcoming and friendly.
The quiz began with two rounds prior to the questions being read out. One round was of course Pictures, this time 12 tough pictures of famous Captains (fictional and non fictional) which everyone seemed to struggle with followed by a missing word round. For instance what missing word connects Captain......Book (answer being Log Captains Log - Log Book). That kinda thing. I would not usually appreciate such a round normally but it made for a change as thats not something I have experienced before in a quiz. We managed maximum points for this (there was only 3 available if you got 8/10 or more) and then the questions.
The set of 30 general knowledge questions is more than it sounds as some questions had three parts, for instance question 1 was three current affairs answers in the one box, so it lasted a good while. The questions were all general knowledge based apart from that first one covering a range of areas, a few old chestnuts thrown in, questions to suit the mainly elderly players and well researched bits of trivia. There were also a few multiple choice questions thrown in there and all in all this was a good set. In fact I would go as far as saying one of the best purely general knowledge sets in this area.
As with all quizzes there was some I was surprised I knew, some I had no clue about and others I knew I should have got but all sorts of areas were covered and it made for a good set. Again, being the youngest by a considerable amount meant we missed a few we may otherwise have got with extra team mates, but we had a decent total and ended up about 5 points off third place (we were only told the top three) which I was happy with as the team in third tend to be in the running at other quizzes we attend.
Add a knowledge based jackpot (name of a harbour) and a guessing/random knowledge based jackpot questions (How many RNLI Lifeboats in operation?) and there is a chance to win a bit of a prize.
All in all then my experience of the quiz at Acre Rigg Social Club was nothing but a positive one. Certainly the most friendly quiz around with us as newcomers and youngsters welcomed very nicely indeed, good general knowledge based questions without too much on entertainment and varied rounds of play. For my last few weeks quizzing in this area, this will be my Tuesday night fix!
Also I was told that next week the quizmaster is totally different with a totally different quiz and set up. I shall be attending and if radically different I will include it as the next entry but nevertheless there will be some more Quiz Trek entries on the blog this week as I intend trying out a Local Music Quiz, returning to the Sunday Night Quiz at the Moorcock and possibly even the rarest of rare, a Friday Night Quiz.
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