"Oh Quizzer, Where Art Thou"
"Oh Quizzer, Where Art Thou"Click here for the Zoom Room that opens at 6:45, Meeting ID: 342 002 864, Zoom Passcode: 8128
SpeedQuiz Passcode: 8128
Cost: £4 per quiz per handset or £20 for the 10 game league season ticket. CLICK NOW!!)
Please join me as I explore the Sarf starting at Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station and 'cycling' everyday across the country, with the over-arching objective of 'doing' The River Thames. I got real lazy after Maidenhead! I have spotted a car park on North Foreland, Kent which will be my finishing point. My target distance every day will be 50 miles/80 km. Well that was my target. My target is now doing the online quiz.
If I can get to a pub quiz on an evening, all well and good, but for my fix I will be hosting an on-line SpeedQuiz at 7 PM every day, finishing by 8. For anyone who would like to join me in spirit, I will give you a quiz every night, keep a 'league' table for the duration of the journey and send one postcard a day to the highest placed player from the night's quiz who hasn't had a postcard. I’ll try to restrict holiday snaps to ten a day and one map. I just might make some pin badges for you when I’ve finished.
How do I price this? £4 per quiz per handset OR £20 for the entire trip (If I had a guess I would say that would be 8 days). I promise that at least 50% of all payments will go to Medecines Sans Frontiers – the very best charity in terms of bangs for bucks.
Wish me luck.
Every day, from Tuesday 8th August to Wednesday 16th August 2023 I will host on online quiz between 7 and 8 PM (Apart from Saturday's which shall be a 'double-header', 7 till 9). Each quiz will be 50 SpeedQuiz questions worth 10 for a correct answer and ten on a sliding scale for speed. There will be a single 'nearest wins' question at the end of each quiz, (apart from the second set on Saturday) worth 99 points
League Points will be Ten Points per event, plus one point for each position: Say there are ten players at an event it will be 20 points for winning, 19 for second, etc. et down to 11 for tenth place
You count your best FIVE events
There will be a bonus ten league points at the end of the series, on top of your best five events, for the person who is ‘closest too’ on the following question. You can write WTF you like on here, but the legitimate answer will be the one disclosed at the end of the last quiz, which I estimate will be on Wednesday 16th August 2023 around 8 PM
The question is: Bearing in mind I will be doing some circular routes each day (ergo perhaps double the distance for a single one way trip) how many kilometres have I, Steve Kidd, have cycled and walked between Bristol Temple Meads Station and the furthest point east on the Joss Bay Car Park, North Foreland, Broadstairs?
In the unlikely event of a tie we will count back and add 6th event points, 7th event points etc.
In the event of a tie after that, it stays a tie!
Click here for the Zoom Room that opens at 6:45, Meeting ID: 342 002 864, Zoom Passcode: 8128
SpeedQuiz Passcode: 8128
Cost: £4 per quiz per handset or £20 for the 10 game league season ticket. CLICK NOW!!)
I'll be aiming for, or have been too these pubs after the on-line quizzes. If any of the Kent guys can make it to the latter ones, well, that would be fun.
Three of the hosts on this list are Quiz Of The Monthers
Sunday 6 Aug 2023:The Dice Cup, 68-70 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3GY, 7:30. Steve Raine | Prizes, Cake vouchers! | £2 to play. Excellent 100 question quiz with a lucky win and a cake
Monday 7 Aug 2023:Whittletaps, 1-3 Regent Street, Cheltenham, GL50 1HT, 19:30, Hosted by Charlie Glover | Prizes, Monthly Cash | £1 to play. Another great quiz, lost 650 to 649 with 18 teams, the winning team getting 15 out of the last 16 questions right!
Enjoyed a warm up cycle ride which doesn't count on the overall tally, south of Hanbury and ending up at the exquisite church. It is definitely one to return too, with great views. I just couldn't help taking a walk up Bredon Hill before I got to Cheltenham, and with 35 press ups on top I felt I'd got somewhere
Tuesday 8 Aug 2023:Did the first on line quiz, from the Plough at Stratton, Cirencester, with four teams, Carolyn, Lee, Ashton, and Edi??. Lee won.
Didn't do the Revolution, Cheltenham quiz, as it started to early, but that was kind of a good job as it had been a busy day cycling..
Bristol Temple Meads To Cheltenham: Can't say how far it was, but it took me 5 hours. Got the train to Bristol from Cheltenham. Not a nice start in Bristol, very damp, non intuitive route, dead ends, second class citizen, but the whole middle section, through Hill, and Ham, and Berkley and Slimbridge was pretty fantastic, though I have yet to figure out why people who design ‘National Cycle Routes’ think that cyclists like bumpy, muddy, wet and narrow tracks with gates at each end and cyclist dismount signs. Perhaps it's the same people who all like bitch slaps, I mean, its just a bit of fun innit?
The last 20 k was back to shitty, busy damp roads. I did great, and the fact is, on a half decent route the km fly by. On a busy dual carriageway the miles drop off, but … eughh.
Wednesday 9 Aug 2023:I cycled from Kemble on top of the Cotswolds near the source of the Thames, back down to the Bristol Channel beyond Frampton. It had it's moments! But the source of the Thames is dry for quite a few km down, including less than 100m from where I camped.
Miles won the quiz after a great game and a perfect last answer
Thursday 10th Aug 2023:The evening was the quiz won by Lee again, then The Lamb Inn, 59-61, Sheep Street, Bicester, OX26 6LG 9pm, Hosted by Chris Mayhew | Prizes, Cash Jackpot, 1st £15 bar tab, 2nd, 3rd and Lucky | £2 to play. It was really pretty good all round, with a buzz in round as well. It'd be nice to see the scores on our phone screens.
Friday 10th August:Hitch hiked to Oxford and cycled over the Chilterns to Cookham, where I now sit a cockstride away from the river
Saturday 11th AugustNever in my born days have I conducted a quiz from such a pleasant spot, with my back against an old tree next to the Thames, where I'd just been swimming. It was warm, the sun went down and it was paradise. Didn't even have a drink! Miles won the quiz.
Saturday 11th AugustThe Arf7 was won by Lee, I came fourth in the pub quiz at The Gipsy Queen, Gospel Oak, Hosted by awesome Owen Andrew
I decided to pack in cycling and statred smelling flowers. The walk around Hampstead Heath was just the ticket, a perfect five miles. Good choice
The Ship, Upnor Road, Lower Upnor, Rochester, ME2 4UY, 7.30, Hosted by Marc Coates | Prizes, Cash | £2 to play
The Cow Shed at The Ship Inn, 12 Ospringe Street, The Ship Inn, Faversham, ME13 8TL 8pm, Hosted by Charlotte Lamba | Prizes, drinks vouchers | £2 to play