Anyone in the West End of Glasgow today?

microhead · Post by **microhead** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:19 am

Can't make next Monday I'm afraid.

We sometimes go to the quiz in The Primary on Sunday night. You're not the bloke who does that are you?

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:51 pm

Christ no!!!!!
Dr Paul I am not.Mind you he doesn't do half his quizzes these days.

microhead · Post by **microhead** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:07 pm

foxy wrote:Christ no!!!!!
Dr Paul I am not.Mind you he doesn't do half his quizzes these days.

heh yeah having done some googling I realise he has a bit of a cult following

microhead · Post by **microhead** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:21 pm

microhead wrote:
Vidmar wrote:So I guess that ex-Hogshead (now The Primary) is the only Gamesnet in the West End?
I think there's a Gamesnet in the Lock pub on the canal i.e. on the other side of Safeway from Esquire Wetherspoon.

i went there today. It's just a Paragon.

angie · Post by **angie** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:42 am

I'm fully disillusioned with Dr Paul and the complete lack of knowledge-based questions in his quizzes, hence why I've been looking for something else. Anyone know any other regular non-DP quizzes out there?

echoes · Post by **echoes** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:14 pm

angie wrote:I'm fully disillusioned with Dr Paul and the complete lack of knowledge-based questions in his quizzes, hence why I've been looking for something else. Anyone know any other regular non-DP quizzes out there?

If you're looking for something better than a DP quiz (stop laughing at the back!) then try The Hall. It's still lighthearted and very "no frills" (ie. no wasting time between rounds, no daft bonus rounds) but it asks better questions. I think the prize is around £30 these days. It's still not a great quiz but it's worth a try and a half-decent team should win it fairly comfortably. The Ark one is probably similar.

angie · Post by **angie** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:26 pm

I think one plus with the DP quizzes (apart from free entry) is that the cash prize can roll over if last question isn't answered correctly, so this week our team came away £175 better off from the Mixing Rooms, which has to be about as big a prize as is on offer in Glasgow, no?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:22 pm

Does DP do the quizzes in the Aragan on Byres Road, and the Hubbards on GWR???

If I recall correctly, the quiz in the Aragon on the Monday was then repeated the following Sunday in the Hubbards. Only ever did it once, but it was the easiest pub quiz I've ever done (cheating bastard that I am).

Mind you, the one of which I speak was another "spend most of the time answering questions to win a bottle of wine or similar, then spend a pound for an illegal lottery at the end involving no general knowledge but an ability to guess which box contains a key" type quiz.

echoes · Post by **echoes** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:53 pm

angie wrote:I think one plus with the DP quizzes (apart from free entry) is that the cash prize can roll over if last question isn't answered correctly, so this week our team came away £175 better off from the Mixing Rooms, which has to be about as big a prize as is on offer in Glasgow, no?

Good stuff. I saw some bloke win around (or over) £400 in DP's quiz in the West End a few weeks ago.

My team won around £280 in a DP quiz a couple of years ago and about £340 in another quiz in the city centre which was sadly axed after that night

The rollover jackpots are a great pull but if the quiz is poor then I'm still reluctant to sit through it.