The Malt Shovel Quiz

1, Cornmarket, Pontefract, WF8 1AN
01977 278689

Welcome to the Malt Shovel Quiz home page, hosted by me, Steve Kidd.

This quiz retains many aspects of my old quiz, so those of you who are familiar with what I was doing at The Chocker or Rustic Arms will recognise some of the rounds. In turn these have a deal in common with Red Tooth quizzes, but whatever, the big change is that it is paperless - all conducted via your mobile phones, tablets and ipads using SpeedQuizzing technology.

Setting up

1. Download the SpeedQuizzing App onto your android device (It is available from all app stores, Apple, Google play, etc., type in 'SpeedQuizzing' and you should find it))
2. Be at The Malt Shovel from 8 o'clock on a Wednesday night
3. Activate your SpeedQuizzing app.
4. Choose a team name (at the top of the opening screen on the app)
5. Connect (big button on screen)
6. Give me £2 per person on your team
7. Ask me to pick your team sound (like a buzz, but more fun)
8. Prior to the quiz proper starting I will ask you to tap your screens to make sure they are working

Round 1: 10 Pictures

4 points for each correct answer, 1 point bonus for the fastest buzz

You will have a 10 pictures beamed to your screen. When you recognise who or what it is tap the screen and you will see one of these three screens:

A full alphabet keypad, in which case give the first letter of the name (ignore words like 'the' and 'a' at the begining, eg, if it were a picture of The Beatles, you would press 'B')

An 'options' keypad, with just the letters A to F. I will read out some multiple choice options to answer a question, you just tap when I say what you think is the right one

A numbers keypad containing 0 through to 9 plus 'reset' (C) and 'send' (enter) buttons. If this comes up tap the correct number THEN SEND (I always forget to send when I'm playing)

Don't panic, I will always tell you what kind of screen to expect, so you don't really have to remember owt.

Bonus Feature - 'Go Wide' A lot of the time, if you are not sure of an answer, you can always press two different buttons on the alphabet or multiple choice, or tapping an 'go wide' on the numerical questions. This will half your points but potentially double your chances of being right. Your call!

Round 2: 10 Current Affairs After the pictures there will be ten current affairs questions. These will use the the same keypads and scoring as the picture questions, the only difference being there is no picture to press. I cannot stress highly enough to keep up with current affairs, and the best way to do so is to subscribe to the twitter feed @currentquiz, which breaks the news down into Tweet sized chunks and enables you to keep your finger on the pulse without being bored shitless by TV correspondents standing outside a house where Ken Barlow may have got his knob out 500 years ago. The feed should be just alongside this, so, scroll down and learn...

Tweets by @Currentquiz

Round 3: 10 Connected Answers

6 points for first correct answer, - 6 if wrong, 3 points for everybody else who agrees or disagrees correctly

For the next 20 questions your device will be a simple buzzer. No letters, no numbers - just press! If you know the answer to the question buzz in as quick as you can. If you are first on the buzzer I will l ask you for your answer. Weather it is right or wrong I will accept it; then I will ask everyone else to press their buzzers if they agree with you, or leave their pads alone if they think you are wrong. Increased points - increased jeopardy!!

Example: I ask "What is the capital of Aus..." and Rob's Mob buzz, and I shut up. They say "Canberra" I accept their answer and finish the question: "What is the capital of Austria?" and then invite the remaining contestants to buzz if they agree. Nobody agrees, and everybody gets 3 points, apart from Rob's Mob who lose six! Yeay!!

Bonus Feature - 'Bubbly Bonus' The ten answers on this section will have a connection in the answers, for example if the answers were Tom Jones, Titanic, Argo etc, the connection would very probably be "Oscar Winning Films". Sometimes I may not tell you what it is. Whoever gets the connection first can have a bottle of bubbly or wine - one guess per person.

Round 4: 10 'Linking Letters' Answers

Round 5: 10 True or False

6 points for each correct answer, 2 point bonus for the fastest buzz

Back to the keypads...

Ten questions asking you weather something is true or false, pressing A for true and B for false, for example If I said "Is this a Tom Hanks film: SAVING MR BANKS" you would hopefully press the 'A' button on the multiple choice key pad, and get 6 points, perhaps even 8 points if you were really quick. No Go Wide on this (obviously).

Round 6: 10 Tunes

Identify the ten artists in the ten records played, using your full alphabet keypad; just tap the first letter of the artist, for example if you heard "Mama, just killed a..." you would be in on Q for Queen as quick as you could. Go Wide is back on for this

Round 7: 'Nearest To'

Welcome to The Last Chance saloon. I will ask one final question worth 30 points. The answer will be a number. Whoever is closest to the correct answer will get the 30 points, in the case of two teams with the same number, the first press will nail it.

Bonus Feature - 25 Number Ones, 25 chocolates: At the end of the day, when all's said and done, when the scores have been announced and the prizes dished out, and if we have time, there will be a shout out pop quiz to finish off with.

That's that for the time being. If you want a quiz, contact me. I will put up some more stuff no doubt but for the moment I'm just watching the hours go by... (tick tock tick tock tick tock)