Friday and Saturday Night Quizzing

Do many fellow quizzers attend quizzes on Friday and Saturday nights??

Its a question I have been meaning to ask on a wider scale for some time but have never got round to it. In my ideal week I would love to attend a quiz every night and there are definitely certain weekends where the Sunday cannot come soon enough, and I crave a quiz on a Friday or Saturday evening. I am just interested to see if other quizzers get the chance to do so?

There are very very few if any around my local area and it would involve a decent travel to the nearest one, although I am not confident it still runs. A fellow friend of mine told me there are only two quizzes in the whole county on a Saturday Night and both are hardcore but both seem to have either shut, or simply I cant confirm whether it still runs save for actually taking the 30 minute trip to find out.

It is of course obvious why this happens....quizzes are used to help bring in trade on nights when trade is usually slow. For many pubs these days, particularly in this area, they live and die by their takings on a Friday and Saturday Night so do all they can to get the regular drinkers in who will spend the night pouring all sorts of drinks and shorts down their necks and keep the tills rolling. On the opposite of this, Quizzes tend not to bring in bigger spenders and whereas is a two hour quiz a team may have just two pints each, on a night out a group of friends will consume far more with just a bit of music and dancing.

Even the older, more traditional social clubs arent interested round here. People are prepared to sit in silence and play bingo on a Friday and Saturday, take part in key draws and such like and in the club I am a member off the weekend entertainment is a pub singer, break fro bingo and key draw, rounded off by the singer but for most people the bingo is key. Surely if people are prepared to play Bingo at 9.30pm on a Saturday night, then there is a market for quizzes.

 Surely in bigger cities there are quizzes ran on weekends? I am interested to know other peoples experiences. Sunday and Thursday are the biggest quiz nights in these parts, and there are still ample quizzes Monday-Wednesday but the only chance of quiz action on a weekend is the take-all-your-money quiz machines located in every single pub around this area.