The Fir Tree Pub Quiz

The Fir Tree Pub Quiz.
Iffley Road, Thursdays, 8pm. Entry £1 per contestant.

The quiz here was lively and great fun. Five rounds, each with their own prize, meant that glory could be claimed by more than one team over the course of the evening and you didn’t have to wait till midnight for some answers to be read. The prizes (ranging from a £10 bar voucher to a bag of nuts) were allotted to winners through a roulette style choosing of brown envelopes picked ceremoniously by a member of the winning team.

The questions were about right (for my taste): only a smatter of sporting personalities and a good sweep through TV, history, literature and general randomness. There was also an association round, where each answer is connected in some way to a theme, in our case ‘gardens’, and extra points are awarded for recognition of the theme, as well as a trick question about the number of hands belonging to Big Ben (who, being a bell and not a clock, has none.) Very satisfying if your team got it!

General enthusiasm and a friendly bar staff made for an excellent evening. Get there early for a seat and order a pizza before 9pm. They smelled yummy.

Emma Pearson (Unverified), 05/08/10

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