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Mick S.

18/7/2019 at 7:16pm
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Why would you cheat in a pub quiz? What can you possibly get out of winning by looking up the answers.

Me and the mrs have started attending one, and are building a consistent record of coming last. But, we ain't cheating, and we get a prize for being last/useless! To be fair, we are the only ones in a team of two, and the others of 4/5/6 dont get twice or three times as many right answers. So in my warped mind, technically we are virtually first every week.

The quiz has an interval; at which the entire pub is 'catching up on emails' - even the 'grannies'. Or more precisely, looking up answers from the first half. Pathetic. (not that i'm bitter at coming last, you understand).

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Mick, don't let it annoy you. Just feel sorry for the sad buggers.

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Sounds like you're peeved because you can't use a smart phone.

I do agree though. Are there good prizes to encourage them?

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Yes there are big money prizes! There are a lot of pubs where I live that have quiz nights and when the 'rollover' jackpot nights are in excess of £100 or more we see the same old faces suddenly appear. Once the jackpot is won, you won't see them again until it is built up again. In my opion this is unfair on the 'regulars' who play every week and build the jackpots up and then have these 'semi professional teams' turn up and take the big jackpots. Quizzes are meant to be a fun evening in the pub, not a money making scheme.
Rant over! Time to get another pint....

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Just turn up at the pub with your own piece of paper to write your answers on, but when asked to contribute to the "entry fee" say that you believe that you have free entry as you do not use your phone to look up the answers. Say that you enjoy the idea of a quiz, but do not wish to contribute to the rule benders savings scheme. Perhaps you could turn up with the Encyclopedia Britannica on a trolley? Or just move pubs? I gave up with them when it rapidly became apparent that those who won were those who could use a search engine the quickest, especially when the organisers used to "not see" infringements. Another sad indictment on society.

Mick S.

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Having relocated to another area, i know this sort of cheating couldnt happen where i used to live, because so few out of town pubs had a phone signal. Which was a pain in the arse when you wanted to call a taxi. Had to perch on the end of the bar and use the pub phone.

I think these quizzes should be all phones on the tables, no intervals, and no going to the loo half way through. Who does that part way through a quiz??

And navver...we run a very successful internet-based sales company. Half my work - emails/images/documents is done on my 'smart' phone. So a bit of googling isn't going to tax me any!

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Scrabble cheats use their phones too.

Edit - had to use the phone to check spelling of 'their'...

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Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 19/7/2019
Scrabble cheats use their phones too.

Edit - had to use the phone to check spelling of 'their'...

A very easy rule of thumb helps to always get the correct there/their

The place one THERE - as in over there - has the word HERE in it
The ownership one THEIR - as it it was their car - has the word HEIR in it - I know an heir is going to own something in the future but it works for me!

Hope this helps someone.

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I can't think of anything worse than a quiz in a pub...I go to the pub to get away from all the questioning at home!!

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One and only pub quiz I took part in, the man (team name 'single bloke at the bar') who won sat next to the woman reading the questions out, blatently copying the answers, got 100% & a cash prize of £25! The rest of the teams googled most of the questions and we came last because we didn't and were laughed at!

Soured a potentially fun evening.....

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I'm trying to work out why it is cheating when during the half time break they are looking up the answers to the questions asked in the first half. All the pub quizzes we do the answer sheets are collected after each round.

Mick S.

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Quote: Originally posted by LlaniDavis on 20/7/2019
I'm trying to work out why it is cheating when during the half time break they are looking up the answers to the questions asked in the first half. All the pub quizzes we do the answer sheets are collected after each round.

Maybe in the quiz i go to, they don't collect sheets at 'half time'? Lets hope this conundrum doesn't come up in one of your quizzes.

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I don’t do pub quizzes, not my thing, pubs are for drinking and chatting in, but my local does one on Thursday evenings.

There is no phone signal and 4G is an item of underwear in these parts on Dartmoor, so the landlord switches the WiFi off!..........Sorted. 👍😀

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Best pub quiz I went to had negated cheating and returned the fun by implementing a way of randomly selecting the winner - at the end of the quiz, they drew a bingo ball and the team(s) nearest to that score got the prize (a free pint for each team member). Great fun evening with no hint of cheating (what's the point?!), no silly rivalries and lots of laughter. The 50p entry fee went to local charities, and the pub was full.

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Quote: Originally posted by david8858 on 19/7/2019

Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 19/7/2019
Scrabble cheats use their phones too.

Edit - had to use the phone to check spelling of 'their'...

A very easy rule of thumb helps to always get the correct there/their

The place one THERE - as in over there - has the word HERE in it
The ownership one THEIR - as it it was their car - has the word HEIR in it - I know an heir is going to own something in the future but it works for me!

Hope this helps someone.

I seem to recall at school we were taught -
"There is there are,
there was there were,
is always t, h, e, r, e"

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