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5 February 2020

The pub quiz question I can never answer: why do I keep taking part in pub quizzes?

It’s like watching University Challenge; when alone, I get half the questions right. With anyone else there, I am reduced to embarrassed silence. 

By Nicholas Lezard

“Would you like to keep your answers?” asks the quizmaster, handing me over the sheet of paper. “No,” I snarl. I have no wish to be reminded of this latest humiliation.

Yes, I have yet again succumbed to the unholy allure of the pub quiz. This one is held on Mondays at the Battle of Trafalgar in Brighton, featuring eight rounds in which to expose one’s ignorance to the world, or rather to oneself and everyone else in the pub.

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