As our daughter works in Glasgow Mrs Ken and I dont need any excuse to go north. This time it was a Sunday to a Tuesday ( weekend before last ).
Now in the new Good Beer Guide there is a new entry called Crossing the Rubicon. It was one of daughters haunts and they hold a quiz every Sunday night, so why not ? Located on the Great Western Road it was primarily a keg bar from Williams Brothers Brewery ( the co owners with Drygate Brewery) but they did sell real ale ( through founts), quite common in Scotland.
The quiz was called Speedquizzing, which I had heard of but not taken part in. You have to load an app onto your smartphone, or in our case a tablet. Enjoying my Merchant City 80/-, nice and malty, in walks the quizmaster , lugging a console thing, bags and other stuff. Out of one of the bags he dons a sparkly jacket. I thought " what have we walked into here ?"
Actually he quite was good and apparently he does different pubs most nights and daughter knew what to do. He sets it all up with a control app , then every team logs in with a team name. Ours was " Whiskey Pedia"
He then asked us all to nominate our theme tune, which would automatically play if we answered a question first. We picked from a list, Atomic by Blondie.
So , the idea is that before each question he sends out either a keypad grid if letters A- E - these are for multi choice questions, or a grid of the full alphabet so we could answer by giving the first letter of the answer. So if question was, name the largest city in Scotland, you hit the letter G as quick as you can. The first in gets their signature tune played and max points.
( I hope you are all following this ?) ( You lost me - ed)
Anyhow, our tablet kept dropping out and we had to log back on each time. Imagine doing that when you have to answer questions within a micro second ? So Mister Tinsel brought over a spare so we could use. Unfortunately he had typed in our team wrong , so for the rest of the night we were the "Whisky Pedo's" !
Halfway thru he asked the teams to write down their funniest joke, which he would read out for a prize.
Daughter suggested this :-
"Roses are Red, Violets are Glorious
Dont Creep up on Oscar Pistorious"
The team with the most laughs won. So we laughed and cheered at our own and won !.
A box of chocolate fingersSome hand cream
4 cans of Williams of Joker IPA.
We came third overall which wasn't bad considering it was a quiz for the young ones ( I was oldest in the bar).
One final word - its back to the beer. I ordered another 80/- while daughter ordered a pint of some fruity keg IPA. I had a sip...it was bloody awful. It was so hoppy and bitter my cheeks sucked in to meet in the middle. She didnt like my beer either so its down to age and taste I guess.
A good night was had by all.
PS - had a chocolate finger the next day but no sign of the beer !! Someone must have knocked it all back in the intervening period.
