Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz, 

            Happy holidays! Thanks to all of you who have written to ask if I am taking time off for the holidays, and thus won’t be around to host tonight’s Pub Quiz. Of course not! If our Irish Pub is open on a Monday night, I will be here. The two exceptions will be Valentine’s Day (and we are safe until 2022), and January 30^th of next year, when I will be participating in a poetry reading fundraiser for The Mind Institute called “The Sacramento Poetry Reading for Autism,” a cause that is important to me. As someone who hasn’t missed a day of teaching due to illness in the 21 years that I have worked for UC Davis, I don’t expect to take a day off this year just because it’s Darryl Hannah’s birthday.

            Speaking of the holidays, during this time of year, many of us experience the magic of anticipation and togetherness by gauging and stoking the enthusiasm of the children in our lives. Already this weekend I have taken one or more of my three kids on a variety of adventures during which time we talked about the decorations we saw, the beauty of South Davis greenbelts, and our eagerness to spend time with visiting grandparents. We’ve also read some Newbery Award-winning children’s books and watched some children’s films, some of them animated; at least some of these experiences will appear on tonight’s Pub Quiz. I’ve had to be careful not to share too much of what we were viewing and reading, however, because my wife will also be joining us for the first time at de Vere’s tonight, and I have a rule that I don’t ask questions that I know she knows the answers to (and she’s very smart). To make up for the potential increased difficulty that this entails (for me, and for you if you join us tonight), I’ve avoided discussing current events with her this week (such as the death of the great poet and playwright Václav Havel), and I added an extra sports question. If you bring the right team, you will do well.

            Speaking of which, congratulations to the three first-time winners who played last week’s Quiz. In 2012, I will be establishing a monthly competition whereby we’ll recognize, photograph and reward the most successful team of each month. Here’s an action item for you to consider to ensure the competition is spirited: over this coming break, please write “Pub Quiz with Dr. Andy” on all the Mondays in all your new calendars.

            In addition to a few of the topics that I mentioned above, tonight’s Quiz will feature questions on adult beverages, basketball, internet memes and acronyms, Scandinavia, world leaders, venerable Republicans, birds, famous people with short names, hip-hop hits, baseball, butchers, rodents, Las Vegas, inappropriate humor, songs to which many now croon in American fraternity houses, TV hosts, mythological creatures, chemical elements, Oscar-winning actors, James Bond, estranged sisters, 19^th century British poetry, languages, Europe, people who are famous for reasons that I still don’t understand, football, jewelry, and Shakespeare.

            See you tonight, and thanks for your support during this holiday season!

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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:

1.         Mottos and Slogans.    The Ultimate Driving Machine offers Sheer Driving Pleasure. Name the car company.

2.         Internet Culture. What became the 2nd-most-used web browser for the first time last month?  

3.         Newspaper Headlines.   How many presidential hopefuls were on stage at Saturday’s debate on ABC?

4.         Four for Four.      Which of the following have been locations of the Bravo reality television series Real Housewives? Atlanta, Chicago, New Jersey, Orange County. (Almost every team answered this question correctly)

5.         Film. What 2011 legal drama starred Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei & Ryan Philippe?  (When will Hollywood make a film based on one of John Lescroart’s books?)

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Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

            Winter is upon us, and that means that we should all get look forward to a vacation, or at least a break. Many Americans are such accomplished consumers that they have taken on shopping as a second job, and our economy is picking up pace because of it. Because we spend so much money on our vacations, however, many Americans are just “pushing through,” mostly because they can’t afford to be frenetic consumers for two weeks a year (and to think that many Europeans can anticipate off a month a year – for most of us, that would bean bankruptcy). Nevertheless, I hope you get a break, if only to maintain your equanimity. As Earl Wilson once said, “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”

During my break, I typically research new readings to assign to students in my winter Technocultural Studies class: Writing Across Media. I find new and challenging essays to make students think critically, creatively, and bravely as they imagine themselves working for that Emeryville dream factory known as Pixar. Like my classes, at Pixar the people in charge encourage a culture of dissent, one of my favorite American values. Although we may see less dissent on campus and in the city of Davis over the holiday break, we can look forward to new dramas in 2012, locally and in national politics. Meanwhile, as I conduct my winter break research on creativity and technology, we’ll see how much of it will appear in the de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz! I look forward to all our Monday evenings together.

            Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature questions on the remaining Republican presidential hopefuls, car companies, Atlanta, courtroom dramas, space travel, New Jersey, baseball, great rock and roll songs, words that begin with Q, Orange County, people with fins, The Brain, nets, people who act phony, television, insects, people with alliterative names, really small things, more Charlie Brown, Academy Award nominated-films, string worms, fondly-remembered prime ministers, water, popular books, football, and Shakespeare comedies.

            See you tonight!

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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:

1.         American Inventors.  Dean Kamen’s most famous invention was what? 

2.         Korea. North Korea borders the eighth most populous nation to the northeast. Name the nation. 

3.         Pop Culture – Television.     What current CBS sitcom features Patrick Warburton and David Spade? 

4.         Big City Mayors. Jean Quan is the mayor of what northern California city of 390,000? 

5.         Another Music Question. What is the best-selling Outkast song of all time? 

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Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

            Welcome to December! As I marched with my family in the candlelit parade through downtown Davis last Thursday, and the subsequent visit to The Varsity Theatre for the free showing of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, I thought of London, and the London wintertimes I spent in 1985 and 1987 watching British and continental shoppers and revelers getting ready for Christmas. I acted in The Christmas Carol when I was a youth, and it was thrilling to me to be walking the same streets that Dickens had walked when inventing that foundational Christmas story 140 years earlier. While our modern American Christmas traditions are sustained by movies and TV shows (and you can expect me to ask A Charlie Brown Christmas question every year), the trees, the images on cards, and many of the carols that we associate with classic Christmas traditions were created or re-discovered in Dickens’ London. Do certain literary works or locales fuel your holiday celebrations?

            Of course, not everyone celebrates Christmas, something I remind myself at Christmas time (and also around Easter). Not everyone watches TV, either. I myself actually have to do web research to pose simple questions about shows such as CSI and Dancing with the Stars. That said, tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature a number of TV shows and other entertainments for children. Expect questions tonight on Dr. Seuss, Charlie Brown, microblogging, CPR, bats and boats, art and art history, popular musicians, combat sports, history enumerated, chemical reactions, old actors, inventions, big countries, California cities, Swedes, sitcoms that I had barely heard of, platinum singles from the last decade, emus in October, Muppets, New York Hotels, religious terms, great screenplays, early explorers, insects, Illinois, Newt Gingrich (not Herman Cain this time), French literature, baseball, and Shakespeare.

            Some teams grab their preferred tables as early as 4:45. Will I see you inside our toasty and traditional de Vere’s Irish Pub when I arrive at 6 tonight?

            Best,

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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:

10.       Great Americans.  Who is the current Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court? 

11.       The US Military. According to a recent report by a group of retired generals, what has become the leading medical disqualifier for military service?  

12.       Stats You Should Know. Rounded off to the nearest percent, what is the current US unemployment rate? (This number has gone down since last week – I expect it to drop further.)

13.       Pop Culture – Television.     What is the last name of the contestant who won the most recent Dancing with the Stars competition? 

14.       American History. The Mayflower Compact, signed on November 11, 1620, was the governing document of what colony? 

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Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

It’s always exciting for a Quizmaster to walk into an Irish Pub full of anticipation and trivia wonks, as happened for the first time in Davis last Monday. It must be like attending a TED Conference, only with Guinness. Every time I visit de Vere’s, and I seem to have dropped by a couple times a week since the soft opening, I’m struck by how many friends I run into. What is it about the place that draws crowds of thinkers and laughers? When I told my six-year old Truman that it was the Mayor of Davis that I had just introduced him to, he admitted that he thought Barack Obama was the Mayor of Davis. He and I listen to more NPR together than watch TV, so I suppose such misapprehensions are understandable.

I think one reason de Vere's Irish Pub is so popular is the evident attention paid to the quality of the ingredients in the food. As a July de Vere’s Irish Pub blog entry put it, de Vere's chefs "have sourced the most satisfying ingredients from local growers." By contrast, members of Congress have caved to food industry lobbyists and have allowed American schoolchildren to have access primarily to cafeteria food products that will make them unhealthy.

This article by food writer Kristin Wartman argues that the industrial "pizza" served in America's school cafeterias is not even pizza. And now Congress wants to redefine this frozen chemical concoction as a "vegetable." On some days I feel like the food our schoolchildren eat is being "regulated" by Veruca Salt and Augustus Gloop.

If you read that article by Wartman, you’ll encounter an answer to a question on tonight’s de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz. You can also expect questions on dragons, sandwiches, shopping (America’s Pastime), the roots of American music, horror comedies, prison, bombs, short actors, members of the Baseball HOF, California, liquid resistance, the judiciary, television shows that females in my family never miss, lowered wreaths, Baghdad, Frasier, Kung Fu, scarecrows, Hugo, movies from 2011, Ireland, cities and more cities, Linnaeus, college football, San Francisco, and Shakespeare.

I hope you can join us when we start at 7 tonight at de Vere’s Irish Pub for the Pub Quiz!

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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:

1.         Unusual Words. What C word means “likely to make a grating noise” and “showing signs of age and deterioration”? 

2.         Animated Movies from 2010.   Who was Megamind’s nemesis? 

3.         State Capitals. What is the capital of South Carolina? 

4.         Pop Culture – Television.     What Freaks and Geeks actor appeared in the 2011 films The Muppets, Friends with Benefits, and Bad Teacher? 

5.         California Geography. What Orange County city of 190,000 is known as Surf City? 

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Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

            I am so pleased to remind you that tonight marks the RELAUNCH of the Pub Quiz! This evening at de Vere’s Irish Pub, starting right at 7pm, I will be ringing the bell (a new bell – wait until you hear it) for a new iteration of the Pub Quiz! As you probably know by now, the de Vere White family has invested significant money and artisanship in the transformation of 217 E Street into the sort of pub that I used to visit when I lived in London in the 1980s. We’ll face some challenges tonight – a new cordless mic, occasionally obstructed sightlines to the Quizmaster, a new staff of eager servers and bouncers that are not used to the varied intellectual energy that  comes with a Pub Quiz – but I really think you will like this new location, and the folks who work there. Finally we’ll be running the Pub Quiz in a PUB! I am beyond excited.

            De Vere’s Irish Pub has a no reservations policy, so you should send at least one teammate early to grab a favorite table. From my point of view as a Quizmaster, this is what democracy looks like. I look forward to the buildup of energy and anticipation during the 6 o’clock hour, and to enjoying a 20-ounce pint of my favorite beverage. Of course, I may have to ask one of you to move over when I sit down to my complimentary dinner, as the tables may go fast, and some of them are 3 and 4-tops instead of 6-tops. I hope you will come tonight see how that works out.

            Tonight’s Quiz will feature many of the questions that I have written during my October-long hiatus. We lost Steve Jobs and race-car driver Dan Wheldon in October, and gained a bunch of new Nobel Laureates, and I didn’t have a chance to memorialize them with Pub Quiz questions! Tonight you’ll hear questions on video games, Apple, Inc., recent and ancient Republicans, founding fathers, football, drums, animated movies, California cities, model anagrams, holidays, large groups of people, the Constitution of the United States, banned chemicals, big cities, Ireland, ancient inventions, foundational documents for radicals, local events (you know what I mean), basketball teams, American islands, and Shakespeare (or, I should add, the writer commonly known as Shakespeare).

            Please grab a friend, lock arms with your friend, and march determinedly to 217 E Street for the very first de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz! See you tonight!

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de Vere’s Irish Pub

217 E Street

Davis, CA

Beginning at 7pm

Friends of the Pub Quiz, and those curious about all the fun and fuss associated with the Pub Quiz, should come to de Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis (217 E Street), the highly esteemed pub and restaurant that fills up every night because of the superb quality of food, drink and company that can be found there. The de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz takes place every Monday at 7pm, though players are encouraged to arrive early to claim a table. As always, find out more about the Pub Quiz by visiting https://www.yourquizmaster.com. For more on de Vere’s Irish Pub, visit http://deverespub.com/.

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Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

            If you don’t know already from having read recent articles in the Davis Enterprise (subscription) and the California Aggie, our Pub Quiz has been cancelled. As I found out this past Friday evening, tonight’s Pub Quiz will be my last. I’ve so enjoyed working with the managers and staff, and am grateful for the support that they provided me while I walked around the restaurant, barking obscure questions like a mad and outlandish Cliff Clavin. Special consideration should be directed at Nate the Bartender, the upbeat DJ and drink-mixer who makes everyone feel better about themselves; Lauren the waitress, who multitasks heroically and precisely like an Octopus with OCD; and our former assistant manager Zack, who rightly considered himself my Pub Quiz partner when it came to preparations and the quick scoring of your answers. As ultra-capable and devoted as Zack was, he still found that he had to absent himself during the karaoke contests.

            Yesterday I ran into California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg at Marine World in Vallejo (we were there for my son Truman’s 6^th birthday, which is today). I had the impression that Darrell Steinberg had never been recognized at Marine World, and he was pleased to be appreciated by an admirer. I mention this because of the two great benefits that I have enjoyed from my participation in the now defunct Pub Quiz. The first is that the younger of past quiz participants yell out “Dr. Andy!” in the street, making me wonder if I know the exuberant person from class, Poetry Night, or the Quiz. I’ve grown used to rudimentary friendliness in Davis – the best place to lose one’s wallet, someone said to me today – but not to this personalized generosity. One walks the street with the realization that anyone one meets might be a Pub Quizzer, or could become one. The downside of all this attention and affection is that I generally have to behave better, and that that I don’t get to spend as much time sleeping in public spaces.

            And now that UC Davis has put my face on the front page of our course and learning management system (answer: SmartSite), I’m getting recognized all over campus, too. Those interactions are somewhat less friendly.

            The other great benefit has been all the friends I have made. Many of you have graciously shared with me your food and wine at Farmers Market, your stories about your lives and your families, and your thoughts on the more obscure intellectual topics that I touch upon during the Quiz. Through the Quiz I have met local authors, politicians (public servants, as they may think of themselves), moms and dads, and civil leaders, all of whom have been willing to “pay” to be assessed, to risk frustration by having their memories stretched in ways that we are unaccustomed in the post-Google age. Friendships, a loving family, and a meaningful job are three of life’s most important riches, and I am grateful for all the ways that the Pub Quiz has intersected with all three of these for me. And I am thankful especially to all of you who have participated, and participated repeatedly.

            The final Pub Quiz will feature questions about telecom questions, nerdy computer terms, Davis in the newspaper, fish, Richard Dreyfus, insanely popular music, famous goodbyes, Julius Caesar, songs that you sing in the shower (maybe you could sing one of those for us tonight?), brother’s date, good hearts, NFL history, cellular signaling molecules, great Californians, monosyllabic words that have at least 17 definitions, sad music, the O’Jays, sauciness, Missouri murders, final lines of films, kings, Presidents of the United States, knives, mountains, chemical elements, parsecs, names in the news, and favorite Shakespeare plays. If you want to spend some time with Google before the quiz, you could try looking up tonight’s tie-breaker, quoted here verbatim: “Measured in pages, how long is my running list of Pub Quiz topics and questions that now will never be heard?”

            We will have to wait and see if those questions get to be heard anywhere else. Meanwhile, I can always be reached via the communications media listed in my signature file, below.

            Thank you.

Dr. Andy

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Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

            As a child, I did not relish my trips to the dentist. Ironically, my dentist (at the Bethesda Medical Building) was Dr. Broring, a name I found to be appropriate because “Broring” was the sound his drill made while he was eagerly boring into my teeth. I mention this because I took my three kids to the dentist this afternoon – that’s why this newsletter is being published later than usual – and it was a delightful experience. Most veteran Davis parents know of Dr. Mandelaris. One of my colleagues joked today that he and I together have paid for the graduate school tuition of all the Madelaris children (or at least paid for the arcade games and elevated trains that distract the Mandelaris patients). Dr. Mandelaris is full of wisecracks, reassuring banter, absurdist asides, and everything that you could hope from a pediatric dentist. After my 13 year-old’s x-ray, we were given a printout of smiling photographs from her last 25 or so visits. She practically grew up in that Oak Street office. Whether it’s her dentist, her heroic pediatrician Dr. Reinhart, Geneva and many other Davis natives have had innumerable opportunities to exchange kind words with many business owners and front-line customer service representatives here in Davis, a town where we do customer service particularly well. I don’t know that I forged such bonds with the people who took care of my brother and me when I was a child. We are lucky to live where we do.

            The veteran Pub Quiz team In Vino Veritas will be reforming for a special appearance this evening. Brianna, the heart and soul of the team, moved to Oklahoma a number of months ago, but has returned for a family visit. I’m honored that she will spend some of that trip with us this evening. Stop by Table 11 (given up this week by Portraits of Mohammed) to meet Brianna and her charming family.

            Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature all sort of intriguing questions on a variety of topics that you know something about. Or at least that’s my hope. I’m sending out this newsletter before the Quiz is done (blame the dentist), so the following list is all conjecture, invention, and whimsy, with a few nuggets of accuracy thrown in. At least I’ve done all my research. I’ve researched topics that include (but are not limited to) superheroes, people in groups of three, books in French, leading ladies, revamped fairy tales, Harry Potter, a number of monkeys, polydactyly, people that were born in the year 2000, the members of Abba who were not blonde or Swedish (might not use that one), the blank of nuclear war, going solo, eagles and other high-flying birds, crow vindicators and the cars they drive, popularity in Washington, Alaskan Malamutes (also a red herring), The Guinness Book of World Records, Oscar-winning directors, public apologies, The Emmys (full disclosure: I did not watch the Emmys), far-flung people who speak French, Shakespeare, French explorers (by request), and several others on topics I haven’t conceived of yet. When I am overworked and behind on researching the Quiz, I turn to film. I probably should have just double-majored in film. This week you can expect no questions on Vitaliy Klychko or Cher.

            I was pleased to meet so many new people at last week’s Quiz. If your team is new, please identify yourselves to claim your prize.

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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:

1.         Mottos and Slogans.    “We’ll leave the light on for you” was selected by Advertising Age magazine as one of the Top 100 Advertising Campaigns of the Twentieth Century. Name the company.  

2.         Internet Culture. Carol Bartz has resigned from the board of directors that she blasted for firing her as what Sunnyvale company’s CEO last week?  

3.         Newspaper Headlines.   As of this last week, General David Petraeus has a new job in Washington DC. What is it?  

4.         Four for Four.      Fayetteville, North Carolina has a population of about 200,000 people. Which two of the following four cities has a larger population? Anchorage, Alaska; Corpus Christi, Texas; Flint, Michigan; Ventura, California.  

5.         A pre-K question about K. What are the four vowels in the Japanese word, starting with a K, that refers to singing along with a video game or teleprompter, such as we do with questions 7 every week?

Friends of the Pub Quiz, and those curious about all the fun and fuss associated with the Pub Quiz, should come to de Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis (217 E Street), the highly esteemed pub and restaurant that fills up every night because of the superb quality of food, drink and company that can be found there. The de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz takes place every Monday at 7pm, though players are encouraged to arrive early to claim a table. As always, find out more about the Pub Quiz by visiting https://www.yourquizmaster.com. For more on de Vere’s Irish Pub, visit http://deverespub.com/.

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Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

            “Education is the best provision for old age,” said Aristotle, who lived into his early 60s. Did he mean that thinking people live longer, or that the elderly will have more to reflect upon if they can look back on a life full of rich learning experiences? According to a recent study from the US Census titled “Education and Synthetic Work-Life Earnings Estimates” (by Tiffany Julian and Robert Kominski), pursuing a higher education is also the greatest way to guarantee making a comfortable living. We’ve been thinking about this because of the debate about how to support, encourage and employ the 14 million Americans (a number larger than the population of Illinois) who are unemployed and looking for jobs. Investing in educating our current and future workforce will certainly make those people more employable, and our country more productive and competitive.

            As a poet, I try not to think much about productivity and competition, but as a teacher and a Dad visiting Harper Junior High School on Back to School Night, I found myself wondering how well our schools are preparing our teenagers for the improved job market that I hope is waiting for them. Fortunately, this year my wife Kate and I were especially impressed with the teachers we met as we rushed through an abbreviated version of my daughter Geneva’s schedule. One Spanish teacher used the book she had written as a graduate student as a prop. Another math teacher talked so excitedly about algebra that we almost wanted to enroll ourselves. I’ll be copying Geneva’s homework assignments a few times this quarter to see how well you do with some of the word problems that have been giving me pause. I was only three years older than my daughter the last time I took a math class, and the rust is showing as I “help” her with problems about the calories in apples and pears. As an always-curious autodidact, I have some work to do.

            I hope you can join us for tonight’s Pub Quiz. In addition to two questions about unusual fruits, we’ll learn about and discuss hotels, internet companies, general changes, Corpus Christi, Texas and other faraway hotspots, Japanese words that we hear every week, London streets, famous people not known by their original first names of Alfred, people who thrive in their 50s in fields dominated by youngsters, German inventors, people you wouldn’t expect to have PhDs, weights and measurements, confetti wilds, chawbacons, singers known by their first names, animated television, food herders, deduction, Star Wars, musical instruments, two-syllable colors, Canadian actors, Latin words, OPEC, patents, the western US, football, statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Shakespeare.

            There will also be one question on September 11^th, 2001.

            People are moving to Davis! If you bring a new team to the Pub Quiz tonight, I shall reward both of you. See you tonight!

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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:

1.         Mottos and Slogans.    “Hello Moto” is the commercial slogan of what telecom company?  

2.         Internet Culture and Video Games. What is the name of the character portrayed by Angelina Jolie in the 2001 film subtitled Tomb Raider?  

3.         Newspaper Headlines.   What Italo-French songwriter, singer, actress, and former model, born in 1967, announced today that the media will never get photos of her baby (after it is born)?  

4.         Four for Four.    Subcategory – Turtles. The earliest known turtles date from 215 million years ago. This makes this reptile group older than which of the following, if any? Crocodiles, Humans, Lizards, Snakes. 

5.         Actors and Actresses. What Oscar-nominated actor and comedian is the frontrunner to host the Academy Awards next year?  

P.S. I am hosting a poetry reading at the John Natsoulas Gallery on Thursday. You are invited!

Friends of the Pub Quiz, and those curious about all the fun and fuss associated with the Pub Quiz, should come to de Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis (217 E Street), the highly esteemed pub and restaurant that fills up every night because of the superb quality of food, drink and company that can be found there. The de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz takes place every Monday at 7pm, though players are encouraged to arrive early to claim a table. As always, find out more about the Pub Quiz by visiting https://www.yourquizmaster.com. For more on de Vere’s Irish Pub, visit http://deverespub.com/.

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