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Dear Cardinal Richelieu,

Below is what you wrote about the quiz I set for last March 21st. Was it the fact you only got five right that got your goat so much or did you have some deeper grievance? I tried to cover a wide range of topics, avoid pop culture and other ephemera and also include some interesting little factoids. And you give it the hairdryer treatment!

So impress me with your intellect; show me how a quiz of your devising would be so much better.

Yours in faith,

Arsehole with a keyboard

http://www.theguardi...z-21-march-2014

The Friday Quiz is an abomination. They let any arsehole with a keyboard pose questions. Usually it's a Guardian set quiz.

Kudos to anyone who gets 10/10.

5 out of 10.

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Dear Cardinal Richelieu,

Below is what you wrote about the quiz I set for last March 21st. Was it the fact you only got five right that got your goat so much or did you have some deeper grievance? I tried to cover a wide range of topics, avoid pop culture and other ephemera and also include some interesting little factoids. And you give it the hairdryer treatment!

So impress me with your intellect; show me how a quiz of your devising would be so much better.

Yours in faith,

Arsehole with a keyboard

http://www.theguardi...z-21-march-2014

The Friday Quiz is an abomination. They let any arsehole with a keyboard pose questions. Usually it's a Guardian set quiz.

Kudos to anyone who gets 10/10.

5 out of 10.

To be fair that wasn't a bad quiz for a Friday, only got 4/10 though, so you're still an arsehole.

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Dear Cardinal Richelieu,

Below is what you wrote about the quiz I set for last March 21st. Was it the fact you only got five right that got your goat so much or did you have some deeper grievance? I tried to cover a wide range of topics, avoid pop culture and other ephemera and also include some interesting little factoids. And you give it the hairdryer treatment!

So impress me with your intellect; show me how a quiz of your devising would be so much better.

Yours in faith,

Arsehole with a keyboard

http://www.theguardi...z-21-march-2014

The Friday Quiz is an abomination. They let any arsehole with a keyboard pose questions. Usually it's a Guardian set quiz.

Kudos to anyone who gets 10/10.

5 out of 10.

Ha. Now I feel guilty and I take it all back :)
You're indeed right that my annoyance was more at my score rather than the quality of the quiz. It's a bit of a running joke that the Friday quiz is a lot harder than the rest of the week so practically every Friday I think up some petty jibe aimed at the question setter, never dreaming in a million years that they'd be reading this thread!
Just did your quiz again and there's a lot of my favourite topics in there, including politics, chemical elements and geography (I really should have done better). In case you don't believe me, here's my attempt from a couple of weeks later.
edit: feel free to call me an arsehole if you get a crap score :)
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Ha. Now I feel guilty and I take it all back :)
You're indeed right that my annoyance was more at my score rather than the quality of the quiz. It's a bit of a running joke that the Friday quiz is a lot harder than the rest of the week so practically every Friday I think up some petty jibe aimed at the question setter, never dreaming in a million years that they'd be reading this thread!
Just did your quiz again and there's a lot of my favourite topics in there, including politics, chemical elements and geography (I really should have done better). In case you don't believe me, here's my attempt from a couple of weeks later.
edit: feel free to call me an arsehole if I get a crap score :)

7/10. You're clearly a master quiz setter Cardinal.

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9/10 on today's quiz, helped by a guess on Shirley Williams. Didn't know the Irish politician. Thought it was a decent set for a Friday. Will have a go at the other quizzes mentioned shortly.

As an aside, can anyone recommend a good pub quiz in Glasgow? There are a few of us thinking of making a trip through from Edinburgh for a meal, a few drinks and, ideally, a quiz.

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9/10 on today's quiz, helped by a guess on Shirley Williams. Didn't know the Irish politician. Thought it was a decent set for a Friday. Will have a go at the other quizzes mentioned shortly.

As an aside, can anyone recommend a good pub quiz in Glasgow? There are a few of us thinking of making a trip through from Edinburgh for a meal, a few drinks and, ideally, a quiz.

What night were you thinking?

To be honest, I don't really go to quizzes much cos most of them have p***ks cheating away on their phone. Even using "Shazam" on the music round and not even trying to hide it. Any phone where people isn't cheating is a good quiz in my book.

The Old Schoolhouse in the West End claims to have a pub quiz that you can't cheat on, although it is in the student area so might well be a lot of silly games and not a quiz at all.

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