Current Quizzes
The OG! This Quiz has been running since April 2017. We have had party Quizzes, specialist theme nights and even went up against a Shakespeare Performance... And won! From 2017 until February 2022, the quiz took place on Wednesday nights before moving to its new slot of Mondays! Taking place in the Beautiful Ballroom, this Hornsey bonanza brings in all the locals giving it a real sense of community. The pub also boasts an epic selection of Craft Beers, cracking menu, and picturesque beer garden complete with fire, bunting and little heated huts. Our Highest number of players came on our 100th Quiz when 84 Players were in the house! That was then followed by over 50 for our 2nd birthday! Despite lockdowns, we still manage to get around 50 players each week, so come and join us, start the week on the right track! In January 2024, the quiz passed it’s 300th milestone and even has a plaque in the toilets to commemorate the winning team! You want a plaque for your team? Come to the 400th!
This Quiz started in March 2018 and was the Tuesday replacement for 2017's Quiz at the Masons Arms in Battersea. I'm travelling even further South to some old haunts for a nostalgic trip down memory lane! The Anglers is a beautiful pub situated right on the Thames by Teddington Lock. The Pub (Like the Admiralty) already had a quiz, but it was in need of a shake up on request from the pub, so I grabbed the opportunity with both hands and had 54 Players in the first Quiz! It was a great opportunity for the South West Londoners to get creative with Playdoh and reunited me with some of my uni friends, 10 years on! Most Importantly, the Quiz brought a feeling of community and an atmosphere on a Tuesday Night, which pleased the staff immensely and by the end of the summer, all the old Quiz teams were coming back too! We are Regularly giving away big money here, so don't miss out!! The Quiz kept going from strength to strength & included special guests and a Christmas Choir featured within rounds during December. After player numbers of 97, 91, 72 and even 40 on New Years Day, the Quiz came back after its long Winter break, starting in the brand spanking newly refurbished pub on May 28th, and with regulars returning, the quiz is actually doing better than ever with up to 100 players turning up some weeks and around 60-80 as the average amount! Get involved! 250th quiz took place in Spring 2024, the quiz continues to be a mainstay in the Teddington calendar!
This quiz was given 4 weeks as a trial back in September 2021. Fortunately, I sprinkled my quiz magic into the pub and crowds of people came. Lots of university students, locals and some just in the area for the day. This quiz is a little more international as a variety of tourists who are there amongst the regulars each week. After a successful year of Thursday nights, the quiz moved to Wednesday (Thursday was becoming more like a weekend extension after covid restrictions were lifted and people were back in the offices) and people kept coming back. For a pub which needed a quiz, we have never had fewer than 20 players and sometimes have over 60, which is fantastic for this charming old place. My lungs are always full, my voice always booming, and the cult following always asking for a selfie! It really is unique, this quiz! By the summer of 2024, we hadn’t taken a single week off since it’s beginning in 2021 and reached the 150th milestone!
You have to end your week the right way, and this pub quiz is definitely the way to do it. The ultimate Sunday funday. Come and have a roast, play the quiz and make some playdoh things. This quiz is what Sundays were made for! Since the summer of 2022, the numbers have been consistently high as regular faces come back every week as their perfect end to a nice weekend, and in the Spring of 2024, we celebrated our 250th quiz. With a resurgence of youth, our quizzes have started gaining 50-80 people every single Sunday! The atmosphere is often loud in Hammersmith, so get yourself down for fun and always book in advance to avoid disappointment!
QUIZ FEATURES
Charities & Corporates
Along with the weekly Quiz Nights at various pubs & quizzes for Schools, I also have hosted many fundraising nights and include corporate clients into my portfolio. If you would like me to host a fundraising night for your charity or want my Quiz in your office for a Social event, please get in touch! Your team could be making PlayDoh Sculptures on a random Thursday Evening!
Alongside You is an East London based charity that works tirelessly to support families living with a HIV diagnosis. They run an intensive programme of outings for the children as well as working one to one with families who are most in need. In November, 2017, In A fundraising and awareness event in Canning Town, our Quiz Night raised around £800!
Spear is based all around London and prepares young people from disadvantaged backgrounds for the workplace, and trains employers to get the best out of them. Using a year-long programme that equips 16-to-24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) from disadvantaged backgrounds to find long-term employment. Miranda Hart is their Ambassador. They took over a Monday Night Quiz at the Admiralty in January 2018, and with 55 Players, we raised over £200! Not bad for a Monday Evenings entertainment!
The Quiz was such a success that just 7 weeks later, they had another one, raising a further £150 with around 40 players. I have a good relationship with some of the guys from this charity now, so here's hoping for plenty more fundraisers for them in the future!
Barnardo's is the UK's largest Children's Charity. Founded by Thomas John Barnardo in 1866, to care for vulnerable children and young people. This well known charity raises and spends more than £200 million each year running around 900 local services, aimed at helping these same groups.
On Monday 19th February, 2018, We had around 50 players down and had a fun night of games and prizes galore as we raised over £150! Here's hoping there may be some more in the pipeline!
After doing several Charity Quizzes for other people, It was time on Monday 22nd October, 2018 to do one for myself. Having just run a Half Marathon on behalf of Great Ormond Street Hospital & The Little Jimmy Brighter Future Fund, I hosted a special night filled with fun and prizes galore. Not only did we manage to raise £60 on the Quiz Night, but the winners of the Quizzes in Teddington and The Admiralty Birthday Quiz the week before, both generously donated their prize money to the cause, meaning in total, from the Quizzes alone, I managed to raise a very nice £260! Happy Happy Days!
The CEO of Endometriosis UK Played the Quiz a few times and then the charity got in touch with me in January 2019 asking for my help. Admittedly, it was a challenge, as I knew nothing about the subject matter, but managed to create a fun filled Quiz to go in their fundraising packs which are now being distributed all over the UK! Endometriosis can devastate the lives of women and their families, and the charity deal with offering them key support, reliable information and a community which can help them get through it. The charity were so impressed that they again called upon my help to write them another quiz for their fundraising packs in 2020 too. I have a strong relationship with this very worthy cause which should continue now every year. As the pandemic of Covid-19 hit, the charity reached out and I hosted an online virtual quiz for them bringing in over £800 for 45 minutes work! Fantastic achievement!
On Sunday 3rd March, I hosted someone else’s quiz for the first time in 9 years as Pub Aid delivered the WORLD’S BIGGEST PUB QUIZ which was happening simultaneously around the country over a period of days. I hosted in The Distillers in Hammersmith and managed to raise around £150 for Prostate Cancer UK, a charity which does fantastic work, and a lot of men don’t check enough, so the Quiz was great to raise awareness. We even had many people not playing who donated during the evening. A worthy cause and a pretty good Quiz… although, no Mash Ups or Play-Doh, so it may have been the World’s Biggest, but it wasn’t the best with our Hammersmith Regulars!
The Night after the Prostate Cancer Quiz, on March 4th 2019, 2 ladies who had got in touch with me were both running Marathons for separate causes: Dementia Revolution and Friends of the Earth. We fundraised the hell out of the night, and had raffles, special Boozy Bingo and ended up making a very tasty £300 which the ladies were overwhelmed with. A Fantastic night with over 60 people down in the Gun deck at the Admiralty in Trafalgar Square.
George Nazer is a legend. A Guy who really helped me start up my business along with Jess and the team at the GNRT, So when he passed away so tragically young last year, we all wanted to do something special. The Pub put on a Fundraiser (or Fund-nazer) in his honour and raised £2700. So I decided a few weeks later to do my bit and help raise more money for SUDEP Action dealing with epilepsy. We raised a nice £150 from the Quiz which meant the overall total from the GNRT To SUDEP Action ended up being £2850! BOSH!
In August, 2019. A player called Ellie from the GNRT Quiz asked if I Could host a special one off Sunday Quiz at the nearby Maynard Arms in Crouch End. The Pub was packed to the rafters as around 75 Players turned up. We had some terrific Playdoh, the Quiz brought many smiles, and I got to give away some of the most unique prizes you could ever imagine in a Quiz night! There was also an incredible Raffle, and all in all, we managed to raise over £1000 for Gekko Kids, a charity who help Refugee Children. What a difference that will make, and nice to host in another part of North London!
The first charity quiz in 2020 was on behalf of the Sports Consultancy who came down to the Admiralty in February. We had a fantastic night raising over £350 for Papyrus, the prevention of young suicide! Brilliant cause, and lots raised. We gave away some football tickets, memorabilia and even a pair of team GB Bobsled trousers!
I had already climbed Ben Nevis and done runs for Alzheimer’s Society, so when they got in touch and wanted a virtual quiz during lockdown, I jumped at the chance. On Friday June 5th, the Great Big Quiz was amazing, and with the help of Sir Tony Robinson (Blackadder, Time Team), John Bishop (Comedian) & Robbie Savage (Footballer & Strictly contestant), supported by the William Hill Foundation, we had a fantastic night! I even had three costume changes as the quiz was streamed live on YouTube and JustGiving. Celebs such as Lord Sugar, Geraint Thomas and Vicky McClure promoted it too in the build up, and it paid off as the total was around £24,000 in the end! Amazing Cause, incredible night. To add to this, there was a second, family quiz on January 31st 2021. Complete with Richard McCourt (Dick & Dom), Comedian Lucy Porter and Actor David Bradley (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter) We raised a further £21,000! Two great quizzes, and epic totals!
Corporate Clients from 2012 Onwards...
Past Quizzes
This Quiz ran for 6 years in Islington's busy Upper Street. Started small & then grew in popularity throughout. We had over 70 players some weeks and an extra jackpot which ensured we gave away over £1000 in just a few months, Which isn't bad for a Monday Night!
Running from 2012 until Summer 2015, this Quiz took over this gorgeous residential hub on Sunday Nights. With its massive beer garden, Summer quizzes were favourites with the local residents, and in winter, the cosy Quizzes kept everyone entertained to finish off their weekends!
This Quiz was my first venture 'South of the River' and showed real promise within the opening month, as this cosy pub tried to look for a new clientele and regular customers. Sadly, most players and drinkers in this pub are after workers who have a train to catch, so despite positive feedback and the odd busy quiz, on the whole, the low numbers of people in the pub meant free quizzes and no return players. It was put on hold in January 2018 but could again take place some other time.
This was a one off Quiz which could have been more. Sadly, I was offered this Quiz after I had taken the Masons Arms in Battersea, so Instead, I headed there to host a Christmas Quiz in December which attracted 16 Teams made up of 70 players. It was a fantastic Atmosphere,and if rumours are true, I Should be back there this year for some more specials! It also prompted a PTA Event for Nearby St Mary's School in Hampstead which had 90 players all raising money for Hakuna Matata Charity. Well, they do say work generates work!
After hosting in 6 Fullers Pubs over the past 2 years (GNRT, Admiralty, Masons Arms, Anglers, Distillers and the Cock & Bull), Former Assistant Manager of the Distillers got in touch with me, as multiple DraftHouse Pubs were interested in taking me in. I didn’t have too many open windows with such a busy schedule, but took the opportunity, as Hosting a quiz in East London would complete the set of one in each part of the capital. I hosted for around 3 months until I went back to the Anglers in Teddington, but the quiz then was hosted by Aussie Chris, Eric and Charlotte up until March 2020. 40 Quizzes in total (12 hosted by me). Sadly after lockdown, with new management, the pub decided to go a different direction, although I found out through an advert on Instagram, which wasn’t cool.
This was perhaps the saddest loss of any quiz. After 113 fantastic quizzes in London’s most central pub, the joy of finishing a quiz and seeing Nelson’s column all lit up upon leaving never got old. The quiz went on for 3 years, however, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, with the gun deck not having windows or enough air flow, plus many regular teams were now working from home, the pub quiz sadly finished. The last quiz (not that we knew at the time) was hosted just 2 weeks before lockdown 1. A great pub, a memorable quiz where I even hosted events for the staff. Hopefully I will be back there for occasional corporate & charity quizzes in the future. What a fun few years in Trafalgar Square!
If losing the Admiralty was sad due to the location, this was even sadder due to the players. At least the Admiralty is still open, so there is a possibility that one day I could be back there hosting a quiz. The Cock and Bull, however, was one of the pubs that Fullers had to close for good after too many opening and closings due to Covid-19. This one had the most character due to the constant regulars who showed up. Even at the end, when there were so many rules by the government on how you went to a pub, they still poured in every Thursday. We never made it to 100 quizzes, but we went out with a bang on November 5th 2020, as myself and Ben said farewell with our 99th C&B Quiz. Hopefully, the Sutton players will come and join me in not too far away Teddington or Hammersmith in the future! What a ride we had!
This one is the strangest one. It was the first brand new pub I had gone into. The pub so shiny and full of life, and with it being underneath lots of new flats, we were never short on players. Once the Euros had finished, we were getting between 50-80 players on a consistent basis and actually had to start turning teams away! The following was huge and we had a lot of fun in the 25 quizzes I hosted. Sadly, due to Wembley Arena opening up again, it made consistent quizzing impossible, so as a result, the pub and I agreed that they needed a new quiz which was more flexible, and I needed a solid Monday quiz that ran every week. Sad really, as this quiz was a really fun one.
Quiz-ness Opportunities...
So you know the story of how I got into Quiz hosting, where I have hosted and where I currently host, but what is in it for you?
"I'm A Keen Thirtysomething Host & Entertainer...
... Who is wanting to use my drama degree to its full potential!!"
One day whilst working in a bar, the Quiz Host was off sick, so I stepped in with no Quiz experience and was hooked! I absolutely loved it, so much so, that 9 years later, I turned a hobby into a career!
l am an extremeley passionate host, putting my all into every single Quiz. Each Quiz comes complete with a whole lot of fun, bags of personality and more prizes & tubs of Play-doh than you can shake a bic at! Each Quiz includes rounds such as Mash Up Music or Cryptic Conundrums plus current affairs, TV Themes, Family Fortunes, the infamous Wipeout Round and Much, much more.
I have also hosted special themed quizzes to suit the occasion with specialist rounds for events such as St Patricks Day, Halloween or Christmas and I also play games to incorporate parties or Quizzes for an occasion such as Valentines Day (We had a speed dating round with some ladies from the ITV Show Take Me Out getting involved!) The best of the bunch are the Summer Special Beach Parties which include the now iconic FAB Lolly eating challenge!
I have hundreds of quizzes stored up so can easily write one to come and host for a company night (whether it be work party or social evening) or alternatively for a smaller fee could purely write the quiz and send it for someone else to host. I can tailor quizzes to the client and even come with my own Gold Suit Jacket!
I have hosted for companies in the past such as RBS and written for Intel, and even had the pleasure of hosting a friends wedding ceremony one Summer and hosted a quiz for the whole staff and players of the Australian Rugby team in 2018. So If you are interested in having my Social Night for your Party or event, or would like to come to one of my weekly Quizzes, read on...
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