Thought about my first taste of bar quiz

Thought about my first taste of bar quiz questions in Dubai in 1988. There is some debate as to as soon as pub quizzes dog collar started, in the UK anyhow. I've seen one source which will claims there was no such thing before 70, and another article reckons these people didn't really take off until Simple Pursuit came along in 1982. My own look at is that Trivial Pursuit is the dad of the pub quiz.

Some trivia about that original quiz game:

Wikipedia says it was invented in Nerja, a small Spanish seaside town, in the south coast about 40 kilometers from Mlaga, in 1979. The New You are able to Times says it happened in Montreal, but does acknowledge that one of this co-inventors, Chris Haney, a Canadian photo editor, used to go to The country of spain every winter, and that year invested 16 hours a day writing issues for his new game. It absolutely was launched in 1982, and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.

Anyway, back to Dubai. At the time there were only a dozen approximately pubs where you could legally drink, and all sorts of those were in hotels, therefore the pub quiz had obviously been imported from the UK by a few of the thousands of British Expats who were working in the oil business and associated industries.

The quiz we accustomed to go to was in the Ramada Lodge, close to our office, in a bar called The Old Vic. Our team was called A + 2 (Our company was Asset Analysis, this business partner and I plus two others made up the team).

Typically the Quiz Master was a teacher at Dubai International School, so I had created say the level of questions was relatively advanced. There was no world wide web just for online access to (mostly) absolutely free pub quiz questions, so it really was a labour of love to compile them.

In Dubai at the time the significant week began on Saturday through to Wed lunchtime, with Friday a full day's holiday. The Old Vic Quiz Night was on a Monday, obviously some sort of quiet night for trade, therefore the quiz to bring people in. First prize was a meal regarding 4 in the hotel's restaurant, and am can honestly say that we gained many times, always choosing Thursday lunch for our prize meal, the start of our own weekend!

As for the pub quiz concerns, it's a long time ago, but I do remember one, because 3 with the 4 of us in the team failed to have a clue, and as we earned by 1 point that night it had been to be a crucial answer for us. The question? "In equestrianism, what is a martingale? inches

Since those pub quizzes within Dubai I've been a big fan, and after this ironically live about 20 short minutes away from the bar where many of the original Trivial Pusuit questions were prepared all those years ago.

Sadly, Chris Haney passed away in 2010 at the age of 59. I truly do believe that he and his co-inventor Scott Abbott were the fathers of pub quizzes; their legacy - the sometimes exasperating, but always entertaining, pub quiz questions which thousands of people try to answer every week.