I mentioned last week that my one time favourite local pub quiz had taken something of a dip due to the quizmaster leaving and bad attendance. I feel a tad sorry for the pub as the barman/manager who runs it does his best to keep things going and they give out so many prizes I don't see how they are making money. The one worrying sign is the pub is busy in the other end so probably doesn't need the quiz to get people in!
This week though, the manager tried a new round to the quiz which sent it further into decline, this being a round based on guesses. A pet hate of mine! I don't mind them as added rounds that aren't part of the quiz or as a mid-round chance to win beer tokens but in a 60 point quiz this round consumed 20 of them!
Basically what he did was provide four answers to each question and you had to guess which was the earliest and which was the latest, which was top which was bottom. So for instance....Who has the most twitter followers? Fry, Gaga, Mcartney or Spears....you got one point if you correctly said the top answer and one if you got the lowest. The questions were all on the same theme and concluded with a stinker...who finished highest/lowest in the 1997-1998 Premier League Season....Liverpool, Derby, Wimbledon, Bolton. Safe to say it did not go down well.
As it happened we won the round easily but I felt very little satisfaction due to the fact it was guesswork and barely any educated guessed in many questions as it did not allow it. Simply guessing was all you could do!
It is such a shame to see a good quiz dying out this way.
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