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Quizzers’ day out Five predictions reported on here but only two sports, cricket and golf. The darts question is postponed till November. Not much movement on the leader board as the cricket winners were relative outsiders at the start of the season. Star pupil of the month is Richard Bains [ … click here to read more … ]

And the winner of the Olympic Quizzing Gold is? You’ll have to read or skim or skip to the end to find the answer to that question. How was your Olympics? I had thought for several months that it would not happen and for several weeks that it should not [ … click here to read more … ]

pearce rob 56 656 james glyn 45 802 salter alex 44 801 dagnell kevin* 43 870 bartram john 42 757 daley macaulay 41 748 nichols jon 41 763 rogers chris 41 790 watkins peter 41 831 green robert 40 806 newall james 40 804 anderton ellis nathaniel 39 776 ellis [ … click here to read more … ]

BUMPER SUMMER QUIZ UPDATE Time for some housekeeping before Quiz HQ decamps to Tokyo(maybe not, given the absence of crowds)Are you looking forward to the Olympics? Maybe not. I fear the main stories will be a Covid count and an asterisk by each gold medal. How have the Japanese government [ … click here to read more … ]

salter alex 35 801 bartram john 33 757 james glyn 33 802 dobbs brian* 32 660 pearce rob 32 656 daley macaulay 31 748 dewhurst neil 31 822 rossiter gareth 30 803 taylor peter 30 777 anderton ellis nathaniel 29 776 ellis emma/steve 29 799 grote byron 29 849 guest [ … click here to read more … ]

QUIZZING’S COMING HOME So excited about the week’s sports news, I’m slipping in a bonus update, despite it being the middle ish of the Euros, of Wimbledon and of the Tour. Of course, Quiz HQ started in its usual grumpy mood. Infuriated that the government had given in to UEFA [ … click here to read more … ]

james glyn 30 802 ellis emma/steve 26 799 dewhurst neil 25 822 green robert 25 806 bartram john 24 757 cole ian 24 814 dagnell kevin* 24 870 manley ian 24 800 spencer james* 24 621 anderton ellis nathaniel 23 776 dobbs brian* 23 660 guest chilled henry 23 842 [ … click here to read more … ]

spencer james* 24 621 james glyn 23 802 pearce rob 23 656 exworth rosamund 21 649 huish audrey 21 776 nichols kevin 21 804 cole ian 20 814 firman trevor 20 800 morgan hilary 20 753 newall ruby 20 850 dobbs brian* 19 660 ellis emma/steve 19 799 hughes nigel [ … click here to read more … ]

EPSOM ROLL CALL 14)Our top racing correspondent Nigel Anderton clambered onto a charabanc bound for Epsom but clambered off to visit Ladbrokes once he discovered the focus of Question 14 Hollie Doyle had made her way to Scotland for fancied rides at Musselburgh on the Firth of Forth. Hollie had [ … click here to read more … ]

THE GODS OF QUIZZING 9)The BBC are about to show a series called “The Gods of Snooker,”tales of the first few years at the Crucible when the final was watched by “Line of Duty” size audiences with an equal buzz at the office coffee break next morning(Remember what an office [ … click here to read more … ]