If you were ever in any doubt, the lockdown has categorically proved that Londoners are blissfully, hopelessly enamoured with the pub quiz. It has become one of the most important aspects of virtual socialising. Why? Two words: organised fun. People have to stare at a screen to interact. It’s unavoidable. But not everyone can hold concentration on a Zoom call. We all look like we’re trapped in the opening credits of ‘The Brady Bunch’. It’s exhausting. You need something to distract from the strangeness, something that will start the conversations you’re failing to initiate because you keep forgetting to turn your mic on. And that’s where the quiz comes in.
Pub quiz hosts were the early adopters to the lockdown times. Within a week of the official wfh life, breweries and bars had all taken to their Instagrams for wholesome trivia sessions. Since March 29, ‘lockdown quiz questions’ has become a Breakout search term on Google, which means huge amounts of people are frantically typing it into the search engine. Unfortunately, searches for quiz answers have skyrocketed too. You duplicitous Zoom cheats!
Now the digital quiz takes many different forms: the music quiz, the film quiz, the drag cabaret quiz, the morale-boosting work quiz, the DIY mates quiz where the ‘rounds’ are peppered with in-jokes, the family quiz where one person takes it too far by including a question about ‘the incident’ (why did you have to mention ‘the incident?!’).
But if you are tired of taking photographs of random objects in your house for another ‘picture round’, and just can’t face another set of ‘who said it?’ questions, let someone else do it for you. There is, quite literally, a virtual quiz to live-stream in London every single day of the week, and we can help you navigate them. All you have to do is come up with your team name (‘Let’s Get Quizzical’ is taken, though. It’s ALWAYS taken).
