Talk:Pub quiz

message: I've added that start times are *often* only approximate rather than (always) approximate. In quizzes that I've run, if the teams get to thinking that 9 p.m. means the questions will start at around 9.15 p.m, then some teams will tend to arrive close to 9.15 p.m. with the result that the questions can't get started until around 9.30 p.m.  Thus the quiz start time gets progressively later and later, week after week. My tip is to start at the advertized time; if teams arrive late, you can *quickly* run through Round 1 questions for them between Round 1 and Round 2. This usually encourages them not to be late again! Peter Harriman 06:20, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quizzes for individuals or small teams 

message: I'd like to add some text on the pub quiz league formats which can vary. Our league's format is very different.
This is all when I get round to it! Peter Hitchmough 07:32, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quiz Leagues 

message: Does anyone have any opinions on the link farm that's steadily growing at the bottom of this article? Varitek 08:20, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're asking, dump the commercial sites. They don't provide ANY further understanding of pub quizzes, they're just there to shill on Wikipedia's back. Be bold and hack whatever doesn't work. --MattShepherd 15:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

text: This is for a small local area only. Nothing less than a national webvsite would be considered for this page, and then it would have to include relevant content and add to the average users understanding of the topic. Even if it is not a business, it is still just an ad.  22:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: Edward 12:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Request photograph

message: I added this section to describe a form of Pub Quiz which is popular in the UK.Chrisj1948 14:02, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bingo Quiz

message: Just thought I'd mention it - very funny!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.85.174 (talk) 20:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you meant about pub quizzes peaking in the 1990s - I have removed the reference as there is no evidence for this Nektario (talk) 14:17, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence last March was "A pub quiz is a quiz held in a pub.", which has since been changed to "public house", and could probably use a bit more clarification. --McGeddon (talk) 14:32, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Excellent first sentence!

message: Should there be a mention of Barry, the trivia machines in pubs that you can win money on?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.0.223.243 (talk) 04:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barry 

message: This article is poorly written and has a bias to the UK (it was amazingly a featured article). I have added an Australian section, removed some uncited and potential contentious claims and have provided some citations. Much of what is written is not very encyclopaedic. Ozdaren (talk) 08:47, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not too happy about the bunch of 'citations' which you inserted. That many were for charitable concerns still does not make them appropriate, and they had the character of commercial external links rather than source material relevant to the article. Chrisj1948 (talk) 11:04, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. 1. "Unsubstantiated claims" should not be removed without discussion, they should have a  tag added. 2. Quiz nights not help in a pub are technically not pub quizzes. 3. There is no need for a separate section on Australia when the activities included also happen in other countries. 4. There is no need to add "in the United Kingdom" to "little evidence of them existing before 1970" unless there were puib quizzes elsewhere before that time. 5. Links to independant reports of fund-raising and charity quizzes are preferable to the links directly to those charities etc.   (Talk Contribs) 11:31, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The original article on Quiz Nights was redirected here. The web pages that I linked to were for past events. The truly commercial one I removed the http start of the URL so it couldn't be linked to unless some one wanted to, in any case it provided a citation for the information. The addition of 'in the United Kingdom' is perfectly correct for the external web link. The information about Pub Quizzes is about the UK. Ozdaren (talk) 12:44, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: PS Apologies for potentially offending you with these changes. I hope I have not inadvertently created tension. Ozdaren (talk) 12:47, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly written, uncited and not very encyclopaedic  

message: I've removed this recently added section because a can't find a decent citation for it, and it was also somewhat unencyclopedic and POV/promotional.
If someone has a citation (note that the Facebook page is not good enough) the entry could be added as follows:
* In a digital pub quiz wireless handsets replace the more usual pen and paper. A time limit can be set on responses (e.g. 60 seconds). It is also possible to determine which team answers a question first for spot prizes, tiebreaks etc. The first digital pub quiz was held at the Woodlands Hotel in Blackburn, Lancashire on the 29 July, 2010.
Cheers, DerbyCountyinNZ  (Talk Contribs) 20:49, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Digital Pub Quiz 

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thread_title:  External links modified