Step this way quiz folk. It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing. You don’t want to hear anything else from us right now, so enjoy the quiz.

6 years ago

On Friday 31 at 11pm, the United Kingdom will formally leave the European Union… … and immediately enter an 11-month transition period during which things like trade deals, law enforcement, data sharing and security laws, aviation standards laws, access to fishing waters, electricity and gas supplies and the licensing and regulation of medicines will be thrashed […]

6 years ago

Is January the single worst month of the year? It is, isn’t it? Nobody likes January. It is nothing more than December’s hangover, a month where everyone is a) cold, b) poor and worst of all, c) briefly attempting to better themselves as human beings. Scrap it, in my opinion. Make December longer and then […]

6 years ago

If you can get more than 15, it’s a good score. 25 years ago, the Sony PlayStation was released upon the world. Those were our halcyon days, back when the original PlayStation reigned supreme as the one true console. The ugly grey shoebox was hardly a design masterpiece but it had some of the best […]

6 years ago

Congratulations, you’ve made it through another week. Despite all this political strife, despite protestors standing on the roof of the tube, despite the staff in Boots being unnecessarily abrupt with you when you pop in on your lunch break. (Yes I can and will hold a grudge, Carol.) You’ve done it. You’ve managed to reach […]

6 years ago

Rich Cooper’s pub quizzes have passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @ So then. A new dawn for the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Will it be better? Impossible to say. Will it be worse? Highly likely. I’m not going to beat […]

7 years ago

Not since last year’s Champions League semi-finals have we seen a more staggering turn of events There was a feverish kind of electricity in the air on the morning of Wednesday, October 9, 2019. It was hard to say exactly what it was, but we felt it ticking away in our neurones and synapses, humming […]

7 years ago

The Simpsons is obviously quite bad now. But! That doesn’t mean you need to stop watching all the old episodes! Nor does it mean you can’t take this quiz. Which is definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely worth doing. If only to eat up five minutes of your pitiful existence on this (dying) orb floating through space […]

7 years ago

Back once again for the pub quiz master. D4 damager, power to the people Back once again for the pub quiz master D4 damager, with the ill behaviour Those aren’t my words, but the slightly altered words of Eddie Castellanos, aka A.D.O.R., sampled Roger McKenzie, aka Wildchild. Why are they the intro to this week’s Pub Quiz? Because […]

7 years ago

This is the 156th edition of the infamously notorious and notoriously infamous JOE Friday Pub Quiz. And the quizmaster isn’t here. I don’t know where he (Rich Cooper) is. So now, without our good friend Rich Cooper, we are forced to press on, to combine our efforts, to put our shared experiences to the test […]

7 years ago

Full disclosure, one quiz simply wasn’t enough. As you will no doubt know, we have already done a ‘name the Rick & Morty character’ quiz at JOE. You might, might have even taken it yesterday. If you did, well done. Hats off. If you didn’t… what are you playing at? Here it is. Take it. Then […]

7 years ago

How well do you remember these lesser characters from the first three seasons of the show? Due to its fast and loose nature, there are many characters that come and go in Rick & Morty. Some are more rogue than others. Some are also far more memorable. That’s why Pickle Rick isn’t here. Do you remember […]

7 years ago

Hello and welcome to yet another edition of the world-famous JOE Friday Pub Quiz The Cambridge English dictionary defines a pub quiz as “a quiz (= a competition in which you answer questions) held in a pub between teams of players”. Whilst not quite being as established an authority on the English language as I would like, I define it as something pretty similar. You’re probably wondering, […]

7 years ago

If you picked Eddy Gordo you were a shithouse. I was, unfortunately, a shithouse (on occasion). It was funny. I don’t care I have to be completely honest here: several Tekken games hold a special place in my heart. In fact, my heart has actually been completely erased by Tekken. I no longer have a heart. I […]

7 years ago

Do you have the speed, the strength, the heart to be a winner? / It’s not for beginners / Deep down in your soul, are you a Gladiator? So goes the greatest TV theme tune of all time, created for the greatest TV show of all time: Gladiators. I was fortunate enough to see one […]

7 years ago

Happy 18th birthday to the greatest sitcom of all time! Here’s a quiz. It’s about quotes from The Office. You know, to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the very first episode of The Office. All you have to do is choose the correct word or phrase to complete the quote. It is honestly that simple. You’ll get full marks […]

7 years ago

You’re looking for something to watch on Netflix, aren’t you? Watch this. I demand you watch this. I personally demand it. It depends on your level of imagination, of course, but films that exist in a confined, solitary location have the capacity to ramp up the nervous tension to levels you simply don’t get in […]

7 years ago

A man who set himself on fire outside the White House in Washington DC on Wednesday has died from his injuries. The man who set himself on fire outside the White House has died, according to police reports. He has since been named as Arnav Gupta and was taken to the hospital on Wednesday where […]

7 years ago

Listen to JOE’s brand new GOT reaction show, The North Awaits, with Michael Fry & Carl Kinsella right here. What a season of Game of Thrones it has been. Full of highs and lows, mostly lows – in fact, a season almost exclusively made up of lows, just crushing disappointment after crushing disappointment until you just wish Flanders was […]

7 years ago

Listen to JOE’s brand new GOT reaction show, The North Awaits, with Michael Fry & Carl Kinsella right here.  Game of Thrones has absolutely fucked it so let’s reminisce about the good times. The career arc of Game of Thrones reminds me now of a whole host of footballers that have started their journeys incredibly brightly […]

7 years ago

FORTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARYDOOS!? TOBIAS! The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has had a shocker. They rolled out a new $50 banknote in October last year that not only contains fancy polymer technology which prevents counterfeiting, but also features Australia’s first female member of parliament, Edith Cowan. Unfortunately, the note also contains the word responsibility spelt […]

7 years ago

All 136 passengers and seven crew members were OK. A Boeing 737 plane flying into Florida skidded off the runway as it attempted to land during a thunderstorm. The plane ended up in the St. Johns River but thankfully, the plane was not submerged. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s office confirmed that there were no casualties and […]

7 years ago

Listen to JOE’s brand new GOT reaction show, The North Awaits, with Michael Fry & Carl Kinsella right here.  Winterfell United 1 (Stark 90+5) White Walker Wanderers 0. Not since Manchester United’s dramatic comeback against Barcelona in the 1999 Champions League final has a game of this magnitude been turned on its head at the very […]

7 years ago

People change, Sony. Some of us don’t want to be SlimeBoi69 anymore. It’s long been an issue with the PlayStation Network but it finally appears to be coming to an end: as of today, Thursday 11 April, gamers can change their usernames. I know. I know. Deep breaths, X_scifininja_X. Calm down WankBot4000. “We’re excited to announce […]

7 years ago

People will no longer be able to add you to a group without your permission. Messaging giant WhatsApp has added a new feature to its service that will mean people will no longer be able to add you to a group without your permission. The move comes in a bid to stop the spread of […]

7 years ago

This really shows the scale of the protest An estimated one million people turned out for the People’s Vote march in London on Saturday, making it the largest protest in the UK since the Iraq War march in 2003. Hundreds of thousands were expected, but the actual attendance figure appears to have far exceeded that […]

7 years ago

The worrying reality of Brexit – it may actually never end So here we are then, squinting our eyes, trying desperately to scan the consuming black dark for the thin rays of light to guide us out of all that is Brexit, now the artist formerly known as Brexit. Britain’s stormy, jilted-lover ‘don’t you dare […]

7 years ago

The Google Stadia will allow users to stream games onto any screen – PC, TV, phone or tablet. Google has unveiled its new digital gaming platform, the Google Stadia, which will allow users to stream better-than-console-quality games onto any device. The company says it will revolutionise the gaming industry when it hits the market. The […]

7 years ago

Paul Mitchell has received his sentence following the assault of Villa captain Jack Grealish. Paul Mitchell has been sentenced to 14 weeks in jail after pleading guilty at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court to the assault of Jack Grealish during the second city derby on Sunday. At a magistrates’ court the maximum jail sentence Mitchell could have […]

7 years ago

Army and police officers surrounded the plane after it was forced to land. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Bangladesh to Dubai made an emergency landing after an ‘attempted hijacking’, according to reports. Shakil Miraj, the airline’s general manager, says army and police officers surrounded the plane after it was forced to land on Sunday at […]

7 years ago

Good to see that politics in the UK is going as strong as ever. This morning Angela Smith announced herself as one of the co-founders of the new Independent group, a political group formed by seven rebel MPs who quit Labour. At the announcement press conference, the MPs stood up, one after the other, and […]

7 years ago

It’s been a good year for cows. Do you remember that giant cow? The really big cow? This one. That guy. That enormous, massive cow. That absolute unit. I thought it was the cow-related news story of the year at the time and whilst I still stand by that bold acclamation, even with 10 months […]

7 years ago

A less than ideal companion for your long-haul flight. Airline passengers in Indonesia were given a bit of a scare after spotting a 12-inch scorpion crawling out of one of the overhead lockers during a flight from Jakarta to Pekanbaru on Thursday. The scorpion – known locally as kalajengking – was seen crawling around the overhead […]

7 years ago

The feature fans have been calling for since the PlayStation 3. Sony has filed a patent leading many sources to speculate that the upcoming PlayStation 5 will have backwards compatibility with all of the previous PS consoles dating back to 1995’s PlayStation 1. Fans were left disappointed by the lack of the feature on the […]

7 years ago

Producers appeared to cut the rapper off as he was accepting his award. Drake was midway through an impassioned speech on the nature of the awards ceremony when he was abruptly cut off by producers at the Grammys on Sunday night. The Toronto rapper was receiving Best Rap Song for ‘God’s Plan’ but started explaining […]

7 years ago

This was the first game since Emiliano Sala’s death was confirmed. Two Southampton supporters have been arrested following their 2-1 defeat to Cardiff City on Saturday for making aeroplane gestures, mocking the recent death of Emiliano Sala, the Argentine striker the club bought for £15 million from Nantes before he tragically died in a plane […]

7 years ago

The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creators are cooking up a brand new comedy. Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, two of the creators, writers and stars of one of the best television comedies of all time, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, are embarking on a new series that will air on Apple’s upcoming streaming service. The […]

7 years ago

The video caused widespread outrage after emerging on Friday. You may have seen the video that went viral over the weekend of a MAGA hat-wearing teenager appearing to mock a Native American man at the Indigenous People’s March in Washington D.C. on Friday. The student, from Covington Catholic School in Kentucky, has now denied that this […]

7 years ago

Trump supporters: notoriously well-balanced human beings. A MAGA-hat wearing army of Trump supporters attended the Indigenous People’s March in Washington D.C. on Friday, seemingly intent on making themselves look as physically loathsome and as odious as possible. The teenagers, reportedly from the all-boys Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, crowded around the marchers and began mocking […]

7 years ago

We need a bit of Black Mirror in our lives. Netflix has released a photo teaser of the upcoming Black Mirror special that is set to air on the 28th of December. Titled ‘Bandersnatch’, you can find its page already set up on the streaming service, complete with the caption: ‘Be right back.’ The special episode […]

7 years ago

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION* *Don’t be ridiculous. How could I make this a special Christmas edition? It’s just football players. It’s just the Wikipedia page of various football players. In terms of this new offering, you will simply find the first 20 random footballers that came to my mind. James Joyce and William Faulker might have […]

7 years ago

The actor was announced as host on Tuesday but has stepped down after three days of criticism. Kevin Hart has stepped down as host of the next year’s Academy Awards ceremony after facing a backlash over homophobic jokes the comedian has made in the past. Hart announced the decision to withdraw from the ceremony on […]

7 years ago

The Pogues frontman has responded to the criticism of the classic Christmas anthem. Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, has defended the use of a homophobic slur in the band’s famous Christmastime anthem ‘Fairytale of New York’. MacGowan has stated that the line, “You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy […]

7 years ago

Just incredible, on so many different levels. Those of you familiar with American sports will no doubt be aware of the mini-gameshows they host at halftime, plucking unsuspecting fans from the audience to take part in a challenge to win something from a sponsor. This is the context, as David, a huge Los Angeles Lakers […]

7 years ago

Eternal voice of reason Danny Dyer is at it again. You might remember a time roughly four months ago when Danny Dyer took on the lofty mantle of, simply, “Voice of Britain” and eviscerated David Cameron it what will eventually become known as the finest moment of oratory brilliance in the entire history of the modern […]

7 years ago

Arsene Wenger has finally opened up about the inability to do his coat up. You can picture the scene, can’t you? Arsene Wenger on the Emirates touchline sometime in December, in a coat as long as a giraffe’s neck, huffing and puffing in frustration. He’s stuck with the zip again. Once again he is left […]

7 years ago

This is terrible. 17-year-old Sophia Florsch, a talented Formula 3 driver, suffered a horrific crash during the Macau Grand Prix on Sunday. Just before turning into a bend, the German lost control of her car which then flew up into the air, spinning, and crashed into the fences around the edge of the race track. […]

7 years ago

A great achievement. Whether it’s the Stormzy Scholarship, winning the Ivor Novello award, releasing his autobiography Rise Up and launching a publishing imprint with Penguin Books or now this, a headline slot at Glastonbury 2019, the #Merky rapper is absolutely killing it. There has been no official announcement as of yet, but a poster appeared in the […]

8 years ago

A mass shooting has taken place in California. A mass shooting has taken place at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California on one of the venues college nights, attracting students from California Lutheran University and California State University. Police officers were called at 11:15 pm local time on Wednesday night and found multiple victims […]

8 years ago

Good to know. Curious to know what are the exact dimensions of the world’s smallest condom and where you can buy it from? Well,  penises come in all shapes and sizes, and all are fine, really, apart from Donald Trump’s mushroom wand. TheyFit, a company that produces condoms in 66 different sizes, now has the […]

8 years ago