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29th January 2012
January's film quiz saw something new: our first three-way tie in seven years of quiz. Well done to those three teams, and thanks to all of you who braved the cold, grey poverty of January to join us for some New Year quizzing.
February's quiz is a week later than usual, on Wednesday 8th February, and will also see something new: our first ever 1990s Special - one of the two new specials we've added based on your requests, so we hope you enjoy it!
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2nd January 2012
Happy New Year! December's quiz was definitely a tough one to end the year on. It was great to see so many new faces - I just hope we didn't scare you off! Team scores and winners' photos from December's quiz at the Boogaloo are now up here.
A few months ago we hosted a poll on our Facebook group to ask what sort of themed quizzes you'd like to see in 2012. Based on your feedback we're happy to announce next year's quiz calendar featuring a host of new themed quiz nights, including a '90s movie special and a Made in Britain quiz dedicated entirely to British films.
For details of next year's quiz dates at our three London venues, click for the Boogaloo pub in Highgate, the Hackney Attic, and Upstairs at the Ritzy in Brixton. From January onwards, tickets will be priced at £3.50.
In the meantime, January's quiz is almost written (including a kicker of a picture round, clues to follow in due course), and we're looking forward to seeing you at the Boogaloo on Wednesday 11th January for the first quiz of the new year.
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5th November 2011
This year's horrific horror special was certainly a tough one! We had some of the finest horror brains in the country atThe Boogaloo and we still managed to stump them on quite a few questions! The results and pictures of the winners are now up here.
Don't forget, if you didn't make it to The Boogaloo you can catch us later in the month at The Ritzy in Brixton for our second screening of the horror special.
Next month is our last quiz of the year and we're having an end-of-year special to celebrate. Questions will be largely based on films since last year's end-of-year special... plus a few Christmas rounds thrown in for festive good measure.
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15th October 2011
Thanks to those who came along to The Boogaloo on the 5th - the results and pictures of the winners are now up here.
If you didn't make it to The Boogaloo you can come along on Tuesday 25th October to The Ritzy in Brixton for our second screening.
Next month, things get a little scary... as it's time once more for our annual Horror Special. It will be somewhat horrific, but a whole lot of fun! Once again, remember to sign up to the mailshots, join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter to get your clues a few days before the quiz!
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11th September 2011
The results and pictures of the winners for the 1980s special at The Boogaloo are now up here. Thanks to those of you who braved the cash-only bar to join us.
Don't forget, if you didn't make it to The Boogaloo you can come along on Tuesday 20th September to The Ritzy in Brixton for our second screening of the month.
We'll be back at The Boogaloo for our last 'normal' quiz of the year on Wednesday 7th of October. Remember to sign up to the mailshots, join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter to get your clues a few days before the quiz!
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14th August 2011
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the August quiz at theBoogaloo. A little less crowded that last month! Scores for all the teams and photos of the winners can be found here.
We'll be Upstairs at the Ritzy with our second showing of the August quiz a little early this month: Tuesday 23rd. And we'll be back at the Boogaloo on Wednesday 7th September, which will see our annual 1980s special.
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19th July 2011
Big thank you to everyone who was part of the fantastic crowd at our annual Summer Blockbuster movie quiz. And what a blockbuster it was! A phenomenal 35 teams and the highest turnout ever in our entire six-plus-year history at the Boogaloo... by a long way!
It was a very busy night for us but you guys made it a great atmosphere (as ever). The Brad Pitt movie soundtracks proved pretty tricky for most but there were a lot of high scores on our Fill in the Blanks picture round (including a couple of 10/10s), we will make it harder next time!
Scores for all the teams and photos of the winners can be found here. We'll be back at the Boogaloo on Wednesday 3rd August for the next film quiz. Hope to see you there!
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13th June 2011
A little late, the results from the June quiz are now up here.
We're back at The Boogaloo on Wednesday 6th July for our annual Summer Blockbuster Special. There will be Big Bangs, Brad Pitt and some Blockbuster Soundtracks...
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5th May 2011
What an absolutely amazing crowd! Thanks a million to all those who came last night to help us celebrate our sixth birthday. We had a fantastic night and we hope you did, too. News and clues for the next quiz on June 1st will be up later, but in the meantime, the results and winners' pics from last night are up here.
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22nd April 2011
We had a great turnout for the April quiz - thank you all for coming. The results and winners' pics are up here.
Now, the next quiz is quite special... Would you believe we've now been doing this for six whole years? That's 73 quizzes and over 5,000 questions! To mark the occasion, the May quiz will be a celebration of the usual high-brow, arthouse content that You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat is famous for...
Our Feature Film will be Will Ferrell's finest outing: Anchorman; our Observation is from Who Framed Roger Rabbit; and our Themed Trivia will see the return of the Family Guy Film Parodies. And as part of the sixth birthday celebrations we'll be dancing in the Picture Round (which features a black & white film from 1953 - told you we were high-brow) and our Soundtracks will be from films with numbers in the title, ranging from 1 to 10,000.
Now for the IMPORTANT PART: you MUST buy your ticket from the bar in advance this month. Why? Because we're also holding a unique birthday raffle. Two lucky devils will be walking away with a bottle of bubbly and a DVD box set each even if they can't answer a single question! On the back of each ticket is the name of a film (unique to that ticket) and we'll be playing an AV sequence to select the winning films. We've made the sequence in advance, of course, so the 'luck of the draw' is in which ticket the barmaids give you in exchange for your £3. Oh, and there are only 100 film title raffle tickets, after that you'll get a bog-standard ticket... another reason to BUY YOUR TICKET FROM THE BAR as soon as you get there :)
It's going to be a good one, so we hope you can join us to celebrate another great year of quizzing. May the fourth be with you!
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5th March 2011
My goodness, what a turnout for the first ever SciFi Special. Results and winners' pics are here. We'll certainly be running another next year - who would have thought there would be so many SciFi geeks in our audience...
We'll be back at The Boogaloo on Wednesday 6th April with a usual mixed-bag of quiz.
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11th February 2011
Another film quiz and another great enthusiastic Boogaloo crowd. Results and winners pics from Wednesday can be seen here. A lot of 9/10s on the 'Falling For You' picture round means that next month's will be A LOT tougher, but glad that we got you on the colour-themed soundtracks!
If you missed the February Boogaloo quiz, come and check us out at our second screening of the quiz later this month (Tuesday 22nd) at Upstairs at the Ritzy in Brixton.
I must say we were particularly chuffed to get such a fantastic reaction to our trailer for next month's Science Fiction movie special. It's the first time we've thought about doing a Sci-Fi themed quiz so hopefully it's be lots of fun. It's already nearly written but judging by some of the reactions to specific clips in the trailer I might change some bits around (in particular getting some Flash Gordon in there!). If you missed the quiz on Wednesday and want to check out the trailer, here it is again...
See you back at the Boogaloo in Highgate for the first You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat SCI-FI SPECIAL on Wednesday 2nd March.
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18th January 2011
It was a fantastic crowd for our first quiz of the new year. Thanks to all of you who came and made it such a fun night! The results and winners can be found here.
If you missed the January Boogaloo quiz, you can catch us again next Tuesday (25th) Upstairs at the Ritzy, otherwise we'll be back in Highgate for the next installment of You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat on Wednesday 9th February.
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8th January 2011
The Christmas results are now up as are details for the first few months of year, both at The Boogaloo and Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Some clues for Wednesday: soundtracks begining with the letter C, films featuring the London Underground, and Con Air.
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2nd January 2011
We hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! While we have yet to post the results from the December quiz (as we've had a holiday, too!) we wanted to post to remind those who didn't come to the December quiz that the first quiz of 2011 will be on Wednesday 12th January. We hope to see you there!
22nd November 2010
Well, the 'Halloween' Horror Special finally went again (!) and the winners can be found here. Thanks to Paul from Arcane Projects for the great T-shirts. Check out their website for more cool designs.
We'll be back at The Boogaloo for our final 2010 quiz on Wednesday December 3rd. In addition to a few Christmas-inspired rounds, we'll be looking back at the last year of cinema. Hope to see you all there.
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2nd November 2010
You've waited patiently since the 8th of September for the next You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat so I'm sure you won't mind waiting a little longer...
As there's a Tube strike and Highgate station will remain closed tomorrow we are rescheduling the 'Halloween' Horror Special for next week: Wednesday 10th November.
We hope to see you there!
12th September 2010
Wow, what a fantastic crowd last Wednesday for our annual 80s movie quiz. A record 35 teams and the highest turnout in our entire five-plus year history at the Boogaloo! It was a very busy night for us but a great atmosphere, and thanks to everyone who joined us. Special mention to the two teams who correctly guessed Black Light, the name of Snake Plisken's special forces unit briefly mentioned in Escape From New York, and officially the evening's hardest question. And so glad you liked the Linda Hamilton question.
Also thanks go to Matt for the Vue tickets and Paul from Arcane Projects for the 80s movie inspired T-shirts. Check out their website for more cool designs.
As I explained on Wednesday, unfortunately there was no way we could put an October quiz together before Lee-Jay had to go abroad with work. So there will be no Boogaloo quiz next month. We will be back with our annual horror movie special on Wednesday 3rd November. Hope to see you all there.
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30th August 2010
Apologies for the late report for August's Boogaloo quiz, but the two of us have been on our respective holidays. In fact I was only back last night and then today (Sunday) it was straight to Leicester Square and the Empire Cinema Screen 1 to run the FrightFest Quiz from Hell, but more on that later!
August saw yet another close-fought contest, with the ultimate winner being decided by a single point. For all the team scores and winners pics from the night click here.
Our next Boogaloo quiz is the annual 80s movie special. And it takes place on Wednesday 8th September. As well as 80s movie soundtracks and a very special guest question from one of the stars of one of the greatest sci-fi movie of that decade, we have a Kevin Bacon/Chris Penn observation clip (work out the film, it's not that difficult!), themed trivia round on Buddy Movie partnerships, and we welcome the return of another ridiculously tricky Fill in the Blanks picture round. This one's always a popular night, more so than usual, so do try and get there early if you can!
See you next week!
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24th July 2010
Well, our blockbuster quiz ended up coinciding with the Soccerball Cup semi final so there was actually room to move in The Boogaloo. Thanks to all those who chose us over the football!
The results and winners pics from the close-run contest can be found here. And after the technical nightmare on the night a word of advice for any Mac users out there: don't let Software Update upgrade you to 10.6.4 if you plan on using the DVD Player...
Our next quiz is a usual mix of everything and takes place on Wednesday 4th August. We hope to see you there.
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30th June 2010
It's taken us a while but finally, here are the scores for June's film quiz at the Boogaloo. You've definitely all been revising the trailers but it's good to see we can still test you on the picture round of Grim Reapers, not a single fan of Six String Samurai?!! Congratulations to Metro(Sexual)Dome who restored their position at the top of the leaderboard after last month's shock defeat to newcomers Two Men Enter, One Man Turns Up Late. Second and third (and fourth!) place were ultimately decided by an unprecedented three-way tie-breaker. To remind yourself how you fared, and for a complete list of the scores for all the teams that took part in June's quiz, click here.
Oh and BIG thanks to Matt at Vue for the cinema tickets, AND to every one who came up to us at the end of the quiz to say how much they enjoyed it. As you can probably appreciate, it takes a ridiculous amount of time and effort (and most importantly love) to put each month's quiz together, so it means a lot to us to get such great feedback on the night.
Now enough of the soppy shit, when's the next quiz you're probably wondering! Well the next Boogaloo quiz falls on Wednesday July 7th, and it's the return of the Summer Blockbuster Special.
I don't wanna spoil it for you, but rest assured, by the time the quiz is over, you get the girl, you kill the bad guys, and you save the entire planet...
Now you tell me. Isn't that worth a measley three hundred pence?!!!
See you next Wednesday!
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21st May 2010
Big thanks to everyone who joined us at the Boogaloo for our fifth Birthday Quiz. There seemed to be a lot of appreciation for Simon Bates and the Arnie one-liners, I'm sure they will make a return in the future. In the end it was close-fought battle that ultimately saw The Analrapists in Coalition with the Chinese win a tie-breaker (by scoring higher on the incredibly difficult birthday bonus picture round). You can find a list of the scores for all the teams that took part and pictures of the winners here.
Thanks again to Mark at Odeon for the Premiere Seat tickets that were quickly nabbed as first prize. And thanks also to Gerry, landlord of the Boogaloo pub, for the extra bottle of wine bonus prize.
Next Boogaloo quiz will be Wednesday June 9th, and again we'll be aiming for a 7.30-for-8pm start, only this time we'll make sure we have the blackout blinds up to hide the glorious summer evening outside!
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30th April 2010
Well that was an interesting month. To all those who came to the unexpectedly rescheduled quiz with faulty projector, thank you for your patience! The results are now up.
Special thanks to Chloe at the Prince Charles Cinema who has been providing us with prize tickets for the past months. We thank then cinema for its support and urge you all to check them out after their amazing refurbishment.
But fear not, cinema ticket lovers, as the nice folks at Odeon (Muswell Hill & Holloway) have given us Premiere Seat tickets as a birthday present.
A birthday present, you say? Yes, for we'll (both) be back with you on the second Wednesday of May - this time a planned reschedule! - with our fifth birthday quiz.
See you there!
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8th April 2010
We hope most of you got the emergency mailshot (or Facebook/Twitter updates) yesterday in time to avoid going to the Boogaloo. Unfortunately they decided to schedule a book launch event on the night of the quiz... without telling us. We only found out by looking at the pub events listings yesterday morning!
The quiz has now been rescheduled for next Wednesday (14th). On behalf of the Boogaloo we want to apologise for the cock up and we hope to see you next Wedensday.
13th March 2010
Apologies for the slight delay in this month's post-quiz update. We've good reason: Our resident Big Lebowski fanboy and one half of the Bigger Boat quiz machine Lee-Jay is now a daddy!
Another great Boogaloo turnout and another victory for The Analrapists, who are fast becoming THE team to beat (it's pronounced Uh-Nal-Rappists, and it's from Arrested Development). Pictures of them, and the other winners, as well as all the scores from the night can be found here.
If you missed the Boogaloo March quiz there's a second screening next Tuesday at Upstairs at the Ritzy in Brixton. More details here.
Next Boogaloo quiz is Wednesday 7th April and sees the return of our Cult Film Special. There's no firm definition of what constitutes a 'cult film' so we've been quite flexible in what we've included! If you follow us on Twitter, or Facebook, or if you've signed up to our mailing list, you can expect the usual clues and hints to follow nearer the time.
See you on the 7th!
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10th February 2010
Big thanks to everyone who joined us for the February quiz last Wednesday. With 24 teams battling out it was one of our busiest months ever! And we're glad you appreciated our Half-Naked Hugh Jackman round, that guy really must have a clause in his contracts AGAINST appearing fully clothed. We really appreciate everyone who makes the effort to come up to us afterwards to tell us how much they enjoyed the evening, thanks guys! Winners pics and scores for everyone who took part can be found here.
We're ahead of the curve this month and March quiz is already in the bag. We'll give you some clues in the mailshot just before the quiz. For our Boogaloo audience, the next quiz date for your diaries is Wednesday 3rd March. But remember, if you miss the Boogaloo quizzes you can always catch us later in the month Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Whichever quiz you come to, we hope to see you soon!
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30th January 2010
Sorry for the delay in updating the site with last month's scores. It's been a hectic month for us with lots of private events to run. But January's winner pics and scores for all the teams that took part can now be found here.
The February quiz is now ready and we've got some cracking questions for you. In the way of clues, you can count on soundtracks from 90s films, and, as a treat for the ladies (and possibly some discerning gentlemen), there will be a very special guest star appearance from Hugh Jackman. And since the Boogaloo February quiz falls on the 3rd this year, if you can work out the significance of the day before, you might have a clue as to what this month's 'counter' question will be.
Look forward to seeing you all at the Boogaloo on Wednesday!
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6th January 2010
The snow is coming down quite heavily now in Highgate and, while the tube is running ok at the moment, we're concerned that it might not be running so well later and that people who have a way to go to get home after might find themselves in a pickle. And while there are worse places to be stuck than in the Boogaloo eating hot nuts and debating the wisdom of appointing Sam Mendes as director of the next Bond movie, we agreed that it would be sensible under the circumstances to reschedule.
So unfortunately we're gonna have to postpone tonight's quiz and instead we'll be running it on MONDAY 18th JANUARY, that's in just under 2 week's time. So plenty more time for you to revise those Russell Crowe films ;-)
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3rd January 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope you all had thoroughly festive festive breaks and are looking forward to another year of quizzing. The eagle-eyed among you may notice a slight change to the website: the big Bigger Boat Brixton button on the left. If you click on it, you'll find out how we are responding to all those cries of 'You're Gonna Need a Bigger Pub!' at The Boogaloo...
We hope to see you at one of the two showings of the first You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat of 2010.
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