tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post6114539731987595090..comments2024-03-12T12:54:32.926-07:00Comments on Life After Mastermind: Playing by YourselfLondiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-61174605934239580532011-05-22T07:18:09.355-07:002011-05-22T07:18:09.355-07:00Hi Daniel
I must admit that there is always a cer...Hi Daniel<br /><br />I must admit that there is always a certain pleasure in turning up to a place where you've never played before, and beating teams of 6 or 7 . <br /><br />Of course, its the taking part that matters !<br /><br />DaveLondiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-36020668093258603322011-05-22T03:42:59.859-07:002011-05-22T03:42:59.859-07:00Hi Dave thanks for the reply. one thing I always l...Hi Dave thanks for the reply. one thing I always love happens when I go into a new place for a quiz. Because I am only 25 and my girlfriend is 21, seen in the picture, sometimes the quizmaster comes round, as they all do, to have a chat with the teams. They always expect us to be doing badly and be loosing massively to the much larger more experience teams so it is always amusing when they come over, see our answer sheets and gets a pleasant surprise.DanielFullardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07635161450969202410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-89579485521871727672011-05-21T04:25:02.636-07:002011-05-21T04:25:02.636-07:00Hi Jack
Well,its very much up to the individual, ...Hi Jack<br /><br />Well,its very much up to the individual, nad I wouldn't like it to come across as me saying what you should do with any prize. Still, for what its worth, this is just what I would do : -<br /><br />a) If it is a modest cash prize (£20-£30 ish)<br />Keep it - share it out equally. Everyone who played on theteam gets an equal share, regardless of how many - if any - correct answers they provided.<br /><br />b) If it is a whopper (£100-£200+)<br />Tricky. If I'm playing with my son in the £100 quiz in Cardiff, if we win then I always do a 50/50 split with him, because I know it makes a difference. On the other hand John and I did once or twice win a large jackpot, and ask the landlord in a couple of places to let the jackpot roll over as if it hadn't been won. <br /><br />c) If it is a gallon of beer or the like?<br /><br />I'm not a drinker, so I can't claim any great virtue in the fact that I always give away the wine in the Sunday night quiz, and often gave away the wine in the Tuesday night quiz - even if I took it I wouldn't drink it anyway !<br /><br />Hopefully John might look in on the blog, and see your recommendation.<br /><br />Hi Danielfullard,<br /><br />- and welcome to LAM. Thanks for leaving a comment. Its something I think that many of us have experienced. The fact is that so much of what can be asked in a quiz is not information that you'll either need or encounter in your normal daily life, only in quizzes. So things which seem baffling to civilians will alwasy be answered correctly by quizzers, and this , I'm afraid, does create suspicion. <br /><br />My advice - if you can bear it - stick with the quiz. Once the locals become familiar with you they should accept it. <br /><br />Thanks for dropping by<br /><br />DaveLondiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-77774212864194492942011-05-21T03:00:11.620-07:002011-05-21T03:00:11.620-07:00I am a bit of a quiz obsessive myself but live in ...I am a bit of a quiz obsessive myself but live in an area that is rather bad for quizzing, the north east. I tend to have to force my poor girlfriend to quizzes a few times a week and due to her complete lack of interest in them I technically am playing by myself. We once walked into a pub we had never been in before, won the small quiz (apparently tied with the group who wins every week) and got every accusation under the sun of cheating!DanielFullardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07635161450969202410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-15529209769269194282011-05-20T22:01:32.351-07:002011-05-20T22:01:32.351-07:00Two points:
1. If John is in Hong Kong, he should...Two points:<br /><br />1. If John is in Hong Kong, he should go to the Stag's Head quiz in Wanchai on a Sunday night. Quite a decent standard, and designed to be accessible to all (there are quizzes on every weeknight there as well).<br /><br />2. On your tips for what to do when winning the quiz by yourself, what would you advise to be done with the prize?<br /><br />a) If it is a modest cash prize (£20-£30 ish)<br /><br />b) If it is a whopper (£100-£200+)<br /><br />c) If it is a gallon of beer or the like?<br /><br />It depends on likelihood or returning, but in general I would say:<br /><br />a) Keep<br />b) Keep £50 and give the rest to charity<br />c) Donate to the team that marked your paper or to the second place team.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-4385489817509470922011-05-20T08:08:46.276-07:002011-05-20T08:08:46.276-07:00Hi Will
I think that the panda was 34 wasn’t it ?...Hi Will<br /><br />I think that the panda was 34 wasn’t it ? It’s a nice idea about pudding your money where your mouth is, but having much more of the latter than the former I don’t think I’ll be putting it into practice.<br /><br />Hi Ben<br /><br />“Phone cheating is a bad thing, ruining the pub quiz: but was this a step too far?”<br />Absolutely not. In fact I question whether it went far enough. Well done to your landlord for a) noticing that the cheating was going on in the first place, and b) not deciding to turn a cowardly blind eye to it. However if he knew they were cheating, and trying to shame them obviously didn’t work, then announcing a 20 point penalty at the end, after the scores had been announced would have been totally justified. Phone cheating is wrong in any quiz. In a quiz where there is a cash prize, you could maybe argue that its fraud. <br /><br />I’ve written about this quite a bit in the blog, and I know that its an issue that does bring out the worst in me, but I honestly do think that anything which sends a message to the cheats that its not acceptable, and won’t be put up with by the majority of quiz goers is perfectly justifiable, as long as it stops short of threats or verbal and physical abuse. <br /><br />DaveLondiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-14071886967709873932011-05-20T05:16:13.476-07:002011-05-20T05:16:13.476-07:00Last night there was a question on the age of the ...Last night there was a question on the age of the panda Ming Ming. I was almost but not 100% certain that the panda died at an age beginning with 3, but the team thought otherwise, so it was agreed that I would wager 9GBP that I was right. That way if we're right we get the point and if I'm wrong they get some money.<br /><br />Not ideal, but can help a team measure how confident someone is.Will Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15812405562443441057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-12869209322385326042011-05-20T04:13:16.171-07:002011-05-20T04:13:16.171-07:00I just had to share this with you: at a quiz in th...I just had to share this with you: at a quiz in the Oxfordshire environs, one I know has a bad problem with mobile phone cheaters (and to make matters worse, it's a Redtooth quiz, and I just don't like them) a team were caught visibly cheating: the quiz master got the pub to boo them. They cheated again, the pub was encouraged to boo once more. I really thought the team would either punch the host or leave at that moment, but they stayed. I marked their sheet - on the questions they had every one right, but on the pictures got seven of the ten wrong. They won, by about fifteen points. The host gave them the £41 winnings, and then got the pub to boo them into giving their winnings to a charity bucket doing the rounds. They then left, red faced, and probably never to return. <br /><br />Phone cheating is a bad thing, ruining the pub quiz: but was this a step too far? Where do you draw the line?Ben Duttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626732284749728398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-91008687595448661012011-05-19T12:18:04.196-07:002011-05-19T12:18:04.196-07:00Hi nollub
It's a fair cop guv'nor. Mea cu...Hi nollub<br /><br />It's a fair cop guv'nor. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. ( Feel free to call me Dave - we don't stand on ceremony here.)<br /><br />Hi Ben<br /><br />You can't really blame people for their suspicions, as annoying as it this may be. ( Blimey, but I'm having to think twice before writing anything in case nollub tells me off again.) Its the fault of the unscrupulous cheats who use their phones in quizzes. They really do ruin it for everyone. <br /><br />It wasn't because they were ladies we joined which made it so bad. It was the fact that we went in with this attitude of condescendingly deigning to help them get a win, and then failing to do so miserably ! <br /><br />I've never had the same experience with a team by the bar, but I have had a similar experience when offering advice to a couple of guys playing on a quiz machine. Ouch - bad flashback !<br /><br />DaveLondiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-4615667346199217582011-05-19T11:29:45.540-07:002011-05-19T11:29:45.540-07:00I went to a quiz last night on my lonesome (stuck ...I went to a quiz last night on my lonesome (stuck in a new area, with no friends). Quiz split into four rounds, with the winner of the first round announced before commencement of second round and so on. I won all four rounds, with a big margin on each. The applause has never been so muted. I got accused of using my mobile. The quiz master had thought the same thing at the end of the first round when I scored 15/15, so watched me through the rest of the quiz. He vouched for me. A few regulars came up and asked if I would be returning - now here, I wondered, are they asking so they can ask me to join them, or is it a friendly warning of don't come back, I wasn't sure. It was the former. I have a team for next week. But the muted applause when I won the fourth round is almost enough to put me off going back. <br /><br />Also, similiar to you joining a team of ladies and having your worst night - exactly the same happened to me in my usual quiz. A team of ladies, usually last, asked me over. We played and came eighth! <br /><br />Finally, as someone who goes to a lot of quizzes on his own - I find there are usually a group of guys playing at the bar. I let the quiz begin, and then when I can see they're stuck, I lean in with the answer (providing I know it) and it almost always leads to an invite to join the team. I've secured regular teams out of this tactic. Though once I was asked to leave a team alone! (They lost by a huge margin).Ben Duttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626732284749728398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-19860485303439325832011-05-19T07:23:50.230-07:002011-05-19T07:23:50.230-07:00Shame on you Mr Clark.
As a teacher surely you kn...Shame on you Mr Clark.<br /><br />As a teacher surely you know when to use "I" and when to use "me"<br /><br />You say, "The absolutely worst thing that can happen is what happened to John and I years ago"<br /><br />back to skool...nollubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07955052597737787521noreply@blogger.com