Pubquiz

The pub quiz (German: pub quiz ) is a widespread British tradition: They meet one evening per week in a pub and playing together quiz. In the UK and Ireland find Pubquiz place in almost every pub, in many other countries, this tradition has been taken up. In Germany pub quiz will be organized mainly in Irish and Scottish pubs.

Uniform rules for a quiz in a bar does not exist, but the various quiz yet have many similarities. The game is played mostly in the ( table ) teams that compete against each other. At the end, the team with the most points, that is most correctly answered questions. At least in Germany pub quizzes are usually not carried out by the landlord and landlady of the pub itself, but of single or multiple quiz masters who work out the issues, questions and evaluate the answers.

A pub quiz is usually over several rounds in which quizzes of different types are made from different categories, such as six open questions about the category "Sport". Unlike many TV quiz multiple choice questions are rare. The quizzes are designed in the ideal case that they are not too easy on the one hand, but on the other hand, in the group - can be solved - through discussion.

Some Pubquiz cost a small fee per person, 50 cent to 2 euro. This money usually goes into a jackpot. However, many pub quizzes are free because they can increase the revenue of the organizing pubs.

In recent years, Pub quiz leagues have emerged, summarized the quizzes in various pubs for a quiz league.

Expiry of the typical pub quizzes

A pub quiz usually takes place in several rounds. The Rounds are often under a generic term such as sports or geography. There are also special rounds like the following:

General Knowledge: Questions will be asked from all topics. We enter the ( hopefully) correct answer to a note.

Anagram Round: Participants must resolve anagrams on a specific topic. The letters of the anagram must be sorted into a meaningful word from the dictionary in a short time (one to two minutes), while there are more points the longer the word. If a word is called that is not in the dictionary or not comply with the rules, there is usually no points.

Pictures Round: It is important to recognize images on handed out photocopies, eg from famous athletes or politicians, movie posters, album covers, etc.

Music Rounds: You have to recognize musical pieces that are briefly played on the music system of the Local.

Who -am- I - Rounds: Wanted is the name of a famous person. The quizmaster is increasing evidence that the earlier a team answers correctly, the more points you get for the answer.

Lightning Rounds: You have to rate the team find out a number or agree on a number in a short time (usually 10 seconds). Example: how many chimneys had the Titanic. In the next questions, the number values ​​increase continuously.

Quiz questions

The quiz questions for pub quizzes are often made by voluntary amateur authors, sometimes even the Pubbesitzer themselves, or by specialized companies offering such material.

Winner

For each correct answer, each correctly recognized image, etc., there are one or more points. The winner is the team that has the most points at the end. For the winner, there is typically prizes in the form of consumption vouchers in the pub or money prices, resulting from the low attendance fees (usually about 1 pound / Euro per participant ) result.