5th July 2008
Well, Wednesday's quiz seemed to be a little harder than normal. Although we were surprised you couldn't work out that Will Ferrell talking about 'new' fondue was Semi-Pro! The results and pictures can be found here. Next month's quiz will probably be a little easier as it's our crowd-pleasing BLOCKBUSTER SPECIAL. Action, explosions, car chases and cheesy dialogue... perfect for summer.
However, as we're following the rest of Europe and shutting down for the month of August, the quiz will be a few days early on Thursday 31st July. To make sure you don't forget, and to make sure you receive our hints, make sure you sign up for our mailshots.
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5th June 2008
Thank you all for coming to last night's quiz in spite of it actually being a sunny evening for a change! The results and winners pictures can be found here. One thing we've noticed is that what really boosts the top teams into their podium positions is a great score on the trailers round. Along with making sure you receive our mailshot, the best way to boost your chances each month is to spend a few minutes browsing through the Apple trailers page.... as it's where we get our material!
We're back with another You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat on Wednesday 2nd July. However, we'll also be back at the Boogaloo on Monday 23rd June with a new event: The Big Picture Show. This event is all about just kicking back and watching a few shorts followed by a feature film, voted for by you from a shortlist each month. More details can be found by following The Big Picture... link on the left.
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11th May 2008
We were hoping that the Cult Films Special would shake up the rankings a little... and we weren't disappointed. Though, to be fair, the team everyone loves to hate, Metro(sexual)Dome, were missing their key player. The results and winners pictures can be found here.
We weren't quite sure what the Channel 4 film crew wanted with all of you (we had 24 hours notice!) but thanks for putting up with them. If only they'd been looking for film geniuses...
We're back at The Boogaloo on Wednesday 4th June with one of our regular mixed-bag quizzes, which will actually see us entering our fourth year of running the quiz! And after three full years we've finally taken the plunge and invested in something to help on those busier-than-normal evenings... a set of clipboards - no more writing on the walls for our guests! All we ask is that you don't walk off with them at the end of the night as they cost a lot more than those pens!
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3rd April 2008
Last night's quiz was a lot less frantic that the March quiz with a comfortable 20 teams taking part. The results and winners pictures can be found here.
We're back at The Boogaloo in five weeks' time on Wednesday 7th May, when we'll be bringing you a Cult Films Special. You know, those films that did pretty poorly at the box office, but now everyone quotes as a classic... for good or bad reasons. We also have a few more specials planned for the year - just keep an eye on the Coming Soon page for details...
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8th March 2008
Wednesday's quiz was a great success. It was very very busy with 30 teams, but the atmosphere was great and we certainly enjoyed ourselves. The results and winners pictures can be found here. Almost everyone scored at least half marks, with all the teams very close to one another - which also makes things interesting when it comes to seeing change in places at the end of the first and second halves.
We'll be back again on Wednesday 2nd April with the next installment of You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat. In the meantime, should you fancy taking part in an '80s Entertainment Quiz (film, TV and music) in aid of International Alert, we'll be at Bangers, Moorgate at 7pm on Tuesday 11th March running a charity quiz. Bring a team and see what you can do!
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18th February 2008
We hope you all enjoyed Wednesday's quiz - it was good to see another team make the top three! The results and winners pictures can be found here.
After two months of date changes, we're back to normal from next month with the next quiz on Wednesday 5th March. Remember to sign up for our mailshots to receive a few clues before each quiz.
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13th January 2008
Happy New Year! January's quiz was a relatively quiet start to the year - everyone managed to get a seat! But that didn't mean it was any easier than usual. The results and winners pictures can be found here.
Unfortunately, Lee-Jay's away with work the first week in February, so we're having to put the quiz back to Wednesday 13th February. And there's an England match on too, so that'll suit you footie fans.
We hope to see you all on Wednesday 13th!
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22nd December 2007
We've finished putting together the quiz for January and will send you a few clues a couple of days before if you sign up to our mailshots. But to keep you going until next year, we've also uploaded two more online picture rounds, including an expanded Christmas round.
Merry Christmas one and all!
10th December 2007
And so another quiz year draws to a close. We hope you all enjoyed last Wednesday's quiz, which proved to be harder than most people thought! The results and winners' pictures can be found here.
We hope you all have a good break, and we'll see you all in the new year... with the first quiz a week later than usual to give us all a chance to recover from New Year's Eve.
See you on Wednesday 9th January.
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6th November 2007
This year's Halloween horror quiz saw the winning team score the highest mark we've ever seen in the regular quiz - dropping just three-and-a-half marks. In addition, most teams managed to get at least half marks, so it can't have been too difficult. Results and winners' pictures can be found here.
The next quiz will be on Wednesday 5th December, out last quiz of 2007. It will feature a couple of Christmas-themed rounds, but will otherwise be a review of all the films that have been released since the end-of-2006 quiz...
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8th October 2007
Last week's '80s special saw an amazing 30 teams fighting for glory. In the end, a crafty alliance between the Lord of the Chick Flicks girls and the boys of The Warriors saw them storm into first place. We were also surprised and delighted to see a new team, Kelly's Heroes come in a close second... hopefully they'll be back for more. Results and winners' pictures can be found here.
The next quiz will take place a week earlier than usual... as it's Halloween. We'll be following on from previous years with a Horror Special to mark the occassion. Along with the gore expect some scary thrillers and the odd well-it's-meant-to-be-scary film (Tremors anyone?).
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29th September 2007
Next week's '80s-themed quiz is in the bag, so in the meantime we've given the website a bit of a tidy-up. we've reorganised our old quiz night results pages (archiving all the scoreboards and winners' photos) and updated our sample questions with poster, soundtrack and trailer rounds, as well as lots of trivia questions, from past quiz nights.
More importantly, we've added some new online picture quizzes for you to play, which are accessed through the menu bar on the left by choosing Play Online. Regular quiz-goers might recognise the titles of the first four (Aliens, Liberty, Monkeys and Robots) from past picture rounds but we've expanded these with lots more new pics. For example, our robots quiz now features over 50 cinematic cyborgs for you to identify. Perfect for those slow days at work!
We hope to try and add new online picture rounds at regular intervals so watch this space.
7th September 2007
Big thank you to everyone who joined us for last night's quiz - the results and pictures are here. The Instant Win questions we introduced at August's Blockbuster special seems to be working ok so hopefully we can add a couple of these to each quiz night.
The soundtrack round seemed to have a lot of you stumped. No excuses for not getting the song from Toy Story but we'll let you off Ennio Morricone's theme from Orca: Killer Whale!
As we mentioned, next month sees the return of the '80s movie special, so break out the eye-liner and spangly gloves, rev up the DeLorean and get yourselves down to The Boogaloo on October 3rd for a hefty dose of John Hughes, Chevy Chase, Arnie in his heyday, Brat Pack and Wang Chung.
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3rd August 2007
We hope you all enjoyed the Summer Blockbuster Special on Wednesday. In spite of the glorious sunshine The Boogaloo was packed as usual... and every team managed to get at least half the answers right, so you all did very well indeed. The results and winners' pictures can be found here.
We'll be back in just over five weeks' time with the September quiz, which will take place a day later than planned on THURSDAY 6th September. For those of you on our mailing list, clues will arrive just before the quiz.
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24th July 2007
We're getting very excited about next week's summer blockbuster-themed quiz. The questions are finished and we've got a bumper stack of prizes to give away, including a very cool Optimus Prime voice changer mask/helmet thingy from the new Transformers movie, an 18-inch talking Jack Sparrow figure, and some DVDs along with the usual bottle of champagne.
And as we mentioned in the last update, as well the prizes for the three top-scoring teams, we've got some other goodies to give away during our Instant Win questions. We read out a list of clues describing a film or an actor and if you think you know the answer you shout out "stop!". If you're right you win a prize, if you're wrong we continue the clues until someone does get it… the catch is, once you've had a go you can't answer again. We'll have to see whether this idea works in the pretty crowded Boogaloo but we're looking forward to trying it, and if it does work hopefully we can incorporate it into our regular quiz format.
Hope to see you on the 1st!
7th July 2007
Good to see the smoking ban didn't have any effect on turnout, with twenty-six teams battling it out at July's quiz. The results and winners can be found here.
For August's quiz, we're stepping away from the usual fare to bring you our Summer Blockbuster Special. No foreign language films, no black and white films, just pure unadulterated mainstream spectacle... plus a few chick flicks. Expect superheroes, disaster movies, sequels and, most importantly, lots of explosions.
And from August onwards we'll be introducing a number of changes. In addition to adding 50p to the entry fee, we're gonna try out some Instant Win questions (those of you who came to our charity quiz last year might remember the 'Stop!' questions) where you can win a prize on the spot. There will also be a booby prize for last place and something more substantial for second place.
Hopefully this will give teams that don't usually get in the top three a chance to go home with something... other than a hangover and bruises from kicking themselves during the answers to the music round!
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