If the two Pub Quiz hosts had a kid it might look like Alex Trebek. And be the Antichrist.
My only consistent night out is Clancy’s Pub Quiz on Wednesdays. It’s like Jeopardy, except not. Ten rounds of surprisingly difficult questions and a cash/voucher prize of Rs 5,000 to 10,000 (depending on turnout). However, the new government has now interfered with my life in a way worse than the draft. Clancy’s gets fined for serving drinks after 11, so Quiz is now begins earlier, meaning more sparse attendance. This means that the management is thinking of cancelling it and effectively ending my social life. This is crap and hope more people will come so I don’t ossify in front of the computer. People to look out for are Absolute Hell, and the walking dictionary Lathika. He also has an library of unconscionably bad jokes. My team is Osama’s Bush, largely supported by Tariq, Sanjiv on movies, and Shanaka on sports. Chikky handles strategy and anal retention. I have included a sample of questions for you to test your mettle. Pub Quiz is at 8:30 sharp every Wednesday.
Games
1. This Game was first made by Milton Bradley in 1860. A 100-year anniversary tribute game was made in 1960, becoming the version of the game we know today. In this game the players travel in plastic cars and land on spaces with different instructions on them. In the end everyone retires and the one with the most money wins. Which game is this?
3. Which strategy game involves two players taking turns moving their numbered pieces in an attempt to capture the other person’s flag?
8. In this board game, players surgically remove the body parts of a very unhappy patient, collecting money each time they are successful. If they aren’t the patient’s nose flashes and they lose a turn. Which game is this?
Sport
As a note, I don’t know what Rugby Union is and my idea of football involves more obese black men. I generally don’t contribute to this round
1. Who is England’s current manager (football soccer)?
3. Where will the football World Cup be held this year?
5. What does NASCAR stand for?
Music
2. What do the Game, 50 Cent, Eminem and Snoop Dogg have in common? Or who?
3. How many members did Destiny’s Child originally have?
8. Who sang this lyric – ‘Expert textpert choking smokers, don’t you think the joker laughs at you’
Abbreviation
6. To go AWOL means that you are Absent Without …
8. NIMBY means Not in My…
10. a RN is a Registered…
Save the quiz… the Clancy’s pub quiz is an institution in this town going back almost 5 years. Without it Wednesday nights just won’t be the same. Oh and Indi you forgot that Chicky is also in charge of incorrect guesses, perving and general irritation.
Actually Chicky is the resident expert on The Beatles’ Japanse work.
We need more hot birds at the quiz. That’s what’s missing…
I shall come today. hot birds or not. If you want can have the quiz at Randoli, i am sure they will be happy to open the place to us.
Oh that Japanese album… the one with”prease prease me” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Ronery Hearts Crub Band”
someone tells me that Randoli has a brothel upstairs
Used to be a regular last year but team began to disintegrated (lesson to you all, do not encourage inter-team crushes and by all costs, do not allow inter-team dating!). My highlight was getting an entire WWF category right all by my lonesome!
Used to look forward to Wednesday nights. Will rally forces to boost numbers.
Dil I think Osama’s Bush is pretty safe… although Sanjiv does sit unnaturally close to Tahir
um, and it appears that Clancy’s management cancelled Quiz today. I think we should trash Soprano’s
It’ll be a shame if they cancel it – sadly has become highlight of twice yearly trip back home. There was nothing this mentally stimulating to do in an organised social way when i actually lived there (watching the Dulux Do You Know Contest on Rupavahini did not count). Nice to see the male bonding going on in Osama’s Bush
this has GOT to be the same sanjiv and tahir i know. small world!!!
hmmm.. so the low turn-out is due to the early starting time is it?.. well, if the new time is 8.30, what was the usual start time??.. (pardon my ignorance of this seemingly much acclaimed social event)
anywhere between 9pm and 10pm in my experience – limited as that may have been
ugh… well, can’t it be shifted to say sunday evening?
omg, this is tragic… not that i was ever a proper regular at quiz, but it was always good to know that i could show up there and run a decent chance of seeing a coupla peeps. and always a few people i definitely didn’t want to run into. but that’s colombo. shame on you, clancy’s, and damn your terrible food!
Actually Reb…the mixed grill was bloody good. Honestly!
Watching someone eat the mixed grill is like seeing a man tilt Noah’s Ark and empty it into their mouth. It truly put the fear of God in me.
Man, has Clancy’s really broadened their menu to include crocodiles and elephants and jaguars and shit? That’s why you can’t bloody see them in Wilpattu and Sinharaja anymore! To the barricades! The last unicorn died for your Pub Quiz!
Nah I suppose their food was decent. I had an inventive greek salad there once. It certainly beats the mixed-meat specialty at my last port of call: “Jerusalem Mix” is kind of like meat kottu (with no roti, just onions and spices and sometimes dried fruit in) made with, get this, chicken hearts and livers plus beef entrails. Finger-lickin’ good, like something from a horror movie.
What’re you on about Reb the food was pretty damn good, the burgers I’d say were some of the best available. I know Alles’ll back me up.
the food there is quinessential drunk food, that is, salt packaged into various shapes and colors. Cricket Club has the best burgers, though they make you stinky.
Where do you get the best hotdogs? I remember Garfields used to have a pretty good burger too.
IMHO, Commons. They have these giant Hot-Dog which is pretty gd good if I remember. There’s nothing like street hot-dogs, but the bread is toasty and its nice. One thing I find annoying is that there’s no good sausage here, and I don’t mean processed hot-dog, I mean actual intestine stuffed with meat
the elephant house hotdog used to be superb..that sauce is amazing. shame fountain cafe is no longer around.