What is a Pub Quiz?
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So, what's it all about?
It's easy. It's a quiz that takes place in a pub.
People play in teams against everyone else. They put their phones away, turn off their laptops and see just how much random, useless knowledge they have and how that compares to the other people in the room. They tend to have a drink or two as well.
They do this in Canada, Ireland, America, Australia and England, and have been for years (or at least, the 1960s, when it seems the whole thing got going in Liverpool). So, when a bunch of guys from just these countries decided to open a pub (The Office in this case), the first regular Quiz in town was born. And thus, even in Graz, there has been competitive quizzing since 2005.
As the first quiz in Graz, it wasn't quite as glamourous back then as I know you realise it is today. In fact, it all started with questions being bellowed out from behind the bar at the Office. That was also when the Office was very small. There were no mics and no fancy sounds checks. And only 6 or 7 teams. Nobody thought it would last more than a week or two. That was in January 2005.
The league began in October that year, and the rest, as they do so often say, is history. The fact that the Quiz has been running for so long (at least if you count in dog years) means that the quiz itself has spawned its own history. We have champions, ex-champions, sore losers and all the rest. You'll find all of that stuff in the statistics pages.
It's easy. It's a quiz that takes place in a pub.
People play in teams against everyone else. They put their phones away, turn off their laptops and see just how much random, useless knowledge they have and how that compares to the other people in the room. They tend to have a drink or two as well.
They do this in Canada, Ireland, America, Australia and England, and have been for years (or at least, the 1960s, when it seems the whole thing got going in Liverpool). So, when a bunch of guys from just these countries decided to open a pub (The Office in this case), the first regular Quiz in town was born. And thus, even in Graz, there has been competitive quizzing since 2005.
As the first quiz in Graz, it wasn't quite as glamourous back then as I know you realise it is today. In fact, it all started with questions being bellowed out from behind the bar at the Office. That was also when the Office was very small. There were no mics and no fancy sounds checks. And only 6 or 7 teams. Nobody thought it would last more than a week or two. That was in January 2005.
The league began in October that year, and the rest, as they do so often say, is history. The fact that the Quiz has been running for so long (at least if you count in dog years) means that the quiz itself has spawned its own history. We have champions, ex-champions, sore losers and all the rest. You'll find all of that stuff in the statistics pages.
