What will win when it comes to the crunch? Well well, it’s National Cereal Day… in America, at least. On that note, it’s time to present the definitive ranking of breakfast cereals. 25 in total, and some tough decisions along the way. Let’s do this… 25. Shredded Wheat If I wanted a mouthful of unprocessed […]

4 years ago

Relive the worst year in living memory by taking a fun quiz. This is the last Pub Quiz of 2020, and thank heavens for that. This year has been almost intolerably hard for so many of us, but while we’re by no means out of the woods yet, there is hope ahead of us. But […]

5 years ago

‘Protect The Land’ and ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’ are the band’s first releases since 2005. System of a Down have released new music for the first time in 15 years. Two new songs, ‘Protect The Land’ and ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’, dropped on System’s Bandcamp page early on Friday morning. The band, all of whom are of Armenian descent, […]

5 years ago

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania have tested positive for Covid-19. At approximately 6am Irish time this morning, Trump tweeted confirmation that both he and the First Lady had tested positive for coronavirus. “Tonight,” Trump wrote, “@FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. “We will […]

5 years ago

Coronavirus has already drastically changed society, but it’s also an opportunity to redesign things for the better. Renowned design studio PriestmanGoode have unveiled a new design concept that explores how airline travel could look in a post-coronavirus world. The Pure Skies concept revolves around three key areas: personal space, hygiene and touch-free journeys, all of […]

6 years ago

Your regular quizmaster is back, but for the last time… Yes, I am retiring from the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Having done well over 100 of these, it’s time to put this old warhorse out to pasture and for some young foals to gallop away into a new meadow of possibilities, while the knackered old […]

7 years ago

Will the UK government collapse? What’s gonna happen with Brexit? Is the world ending? Where are my keys? The world is full of uncertainty, but the one thing you can rely on is the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. One hundred and fifty five weeks of solid quizzing – now that’s something you can depend on. […]

7 years ago

“But Sir, when are we ever going to use this in real life?” Right now, that’s when. School was a long time ago for most of us, but how much of that knowledge have you actually retained? The questions are all typical ones which might appear in the Junior Cert (yes, some of the currency is […]

7 years ago

Here’s a quiz, then. It’s Friday which can only mean one thing, The JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Off you go then.

7 years ago

I’m back! Yes, I’ve been gone for three weeks, but your regular quizmaster is back to serve you up some delicious questions for your Friday lunchtime. In fact, I’m so back that I’ve left it ’til the absolute last minute again, and therefore this is all I’m going to write for the intro. If the […]

7 years ago

It’s Pub Quiz time! We feeling good? Ready to test your mental might? Think you can get the elusive 100%? this week? Ok, let’s do this.

7 years ago

This week it’s a BYOI Pub Quiz: Bring Your Own Intro. Just drop it in here. It can be whatever you like. A poem, a sonnet, a long diatribe about how the Pub Quizmaster has been neglecting the intro of late. Hey, it’s completely up to you! Anyways, here’s the quiz. If it isn’t displaying […]

7 years ago

I’m on holiday today, so if you have any issues with this week’s quiz, send them on a postcard to Berlin. I will reply to all relevant correspondence when I return. Yours sincerely, The Pub Quiz Master

7 years ago

You want the quiz, so here it is No time for a funny intro this week. “But the intros are never funny,” you say. Well then. Nothing changes. Shout out to Fran and Reuben for helping out on the quiz this week. This is dedicated to you guys. Yes, we’re doing dedications in the Pub […]

7 years ago

Guess what? I did the Pub Quiz in advance for once! It’s Thursday afternoon as I write this, almost an entire day before it’s due to go out. I am the master of organisation. I am an Olympian of forward planning. All this extra time gives me more space to really craft a thoughtful, insightful […]

7 years ago

“What’s the worst thing about doing the JOE Friday Pub Quiz?” someone asked me on the street the other day. I say ‘someone’. It was actually no one. The only thing I ever get asked on the street is, “Sir, can you please get a fucking move on?” I am a dawdler by nature, and […]

7 years ago

See ya, Theresa. Wouldn’t wanna be ya. The UK Prime Minister is no more, almost. Some things stay the same, though. Some things never let you down. It’s the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Can you get 100%?

7 years ago

It’s about that time. It’s Friday. It’s the Pub Quiz. What more do you need?

7 years ago

There’s no Pub Quiz intro this week. Instead, here are the first few lines from Dante’s Inferno. Enjoy! MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, […]

7 years ago

This week’s Pub Quiz intro is a guest post from Charlie, a dog I met in the park yesterday Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Grrrrrrrr. BARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARK Make sure you subscribe to the JOE newsletter. It’s really rather ripping! WOOF WOOF.

7 years ago

This week on the JOE Friday Pub Quiz, we’re bringing back an old friend. Longterm fans of the Quiz may remember that we used to do a weekly Alphabet Quiz. Well, for one week only, we’re bringing it back for a special Pub Quiz round. However, I can’t really squeeze 26 questions into one round, […]

7 years ago

Hello, the Quizmaster is out of office for Easter. If you have any issues regarding the quality of the quiz, please contact dontbother@joe.ie. If, on the other hand, it’s not displaying properly for you below, click here. The Quizmaster will answer any other relevant queries if/when he returns from holiday. Kind regards, The Quizmaster

7 years ago

Pub quiz, get your pub quiz! You should know the drill by now: Five rounds, five questions per round; this week, your topics are Harry Potter, sport, where is it?, ‘that guy’ actors and general knowledge. Get cracking below. If the quiz isn’t displaying properly, click here.

7 years ago

It’s that time of the week again. Yep, it’s Friday and if you await the JOE Friday Pub Quiz as anxiously as we know some of our readers do, then you’re probably reading this at lunchtime and wondering why we haven’t stopped talking and when we’re going to get to the quiz. Without further ado, […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by PlayStation It’s Pub Quiz time. Forget everything else for now, though. In this increasingly complicated world, where everything is upside down and nothing makes sense, what we need is an easy, straightforward quiz. The JOE Friday Pub Quiz, for example. Let’s make things super straightforward then. Do you like the Pub […]

7 years ago

You know what time it is… That’s right. You guessed it. It’s JOE Friday Pub Quiz time. You’re clearly very sharp, but let’s really test you, shall we? This week we’re looking at comedians, sport, supergroups, politics and good old-fashioned general knowledge. Let’s go!

7 years ago

Brought to you by PlayStation St Patrick’s Day is this Sunday, and everyone’s a bit giddy. But that doesn’t mean we’re not going to give you your Friday pub quiz as per usual. You should know us better by now. Anyway, less of the chattin’, more of the quizzin’; do your worst on the five […]

7 years ago

How would you like it if we got a comedian to read out the Pub Quiz in an interactive video? Say, I don’t know, Al Murray? You would like it? Well, what a coincidence, because we got Al Murray to read out the Pub Quiz in an interactive video. It’s a small world after all. […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by PlayStation Heard you like quizzes. Weird. It’s not weird that you like quizzes. Quizzes are good, and it’s good to like quizzes. It’s just weird that you happen to like quizzes, and there’s a quiz right here. Strange, right? Well, here you are. So what have you got to show for […]

7 years ago

The joe Friday Pub Quiz is back and congratulations are in order – it is quiz master Rich’s 29th birthday, so don’t let him down

7 years ago

I have a choice to make right now. I can choose to stay and write a really excellent intro for the Pub Quiz, which I usually spend hours poring over and meticulously crafting. Ensuring that every joke lands perfectly, that the prose rolls along like a gentle ocean ripple, that every piece of punctuation is […]

7 years ago

It’s Friday. You know the drill. On the menu today are rounds on biopics, sport, the natural world, famous dead people and general knowledge. It’s tricky, but a score in the high teens or around the 20 mark should be well within your grasp. Without further ado then… If the quiz isn’t displaying properly, click […]

7 years ago

It’s that time of the week again. This week, the round categories are Obscure Foods, Old Prime Ministers, Sport Sport Sport, The Language of the French, and Who Is That Man? Please enjoy. If the quiz isn’t displaying properly, please click here.

7 years ago

You know what time it is. Why, yes. It’s Friday. Friday means the weekend. Friday means the famous JOE Pub Quiz. Week 124 tests your strength on cover songs, sport, American states, brand logos and some general knowledge for good measure. Can you get 100%? Play on…

7 years ago

Give it a go. It’s Friday so that can only mean one thing, yes you guessed it, it’s time for The JOE Friday Pub Quiz as we enter week 123 of the quiz. Who knew we’d make it this far? We did, because we know all of you love quizzes. Without further ado, let’s get […]

7 years ago

The JOE Pub Quiz is back again! This week’s rounds: Movie Quotes, Sport, Airlines, Nuts and General Knowledge. Get stuck in. If the quiz isn’t displaying properly, click here.

7 years ago

Happy New Year, everyone! It’s the first edition of the JOE Friday Pub Quiz in 2019 and we know that you’re all itching to start with a bang. On that note, let’s stop the delay. One….two…three…QUIZ!

7 years ago

Crikey, fellas. What a year. What a bloody year it’s been. There have been some ups. There have been an extraordinary number of downs. Mainly downs, if we’re honest. This being said, can you finish the year on an up by acing the JOE Pub Quiz but be warned, this one is BIG! Happy New […]

7 years ago

Sponsored by PlayStation Classic Welcome to the penultimate JOE Friday Pub Quiz of 2018. It is the season of goodwill, but we’re not about to give you 25 easy questions just for the sake of it, we haven’t gone soft just yet. What we are about to give you is a testing challenge of your […]

7 years ago

Sponsored by PlayStation Classic Why is the arrival of Christmas the only thing we count in sleeps? Even as we speak, people are counting down the sleeps ’til Christmas, because it’s a free country, even for them. But let’s expand the genre. For example, there are 133 sleeps until Avengers: Endgame, and just 134 sleeps […]

7 years ago

You’d better believe it’s the JOE Friday Pub Quiz

7 years ago

Y’all ready for this week’s quiz? It’s what you’ve been waiting for all week, so let’s dispense with the pleasantries and get down to business. This week, we’ve got rounds on music, sport, beers from around the world, brand logos and some general knowledge. Sound good? Let’s quiz. If the quiz isn’t displaying properly, click […]

7 years ago

Can you beat your mates this week? It’s Friday, it’s lunchtime and you know the drill by now. This week, we’ve got rounds on capital cities, sport, famous robots and chocolate bars, with some good old general knowledge to top it all off. If the quiz isn’t displaying properly, click here. Go!

7 years ago

Another week, another JOE Friday Pub Quiz

7 years ago

Test your might. Y’know, like the Mortal Kombat saying. Anyway, you know why we’re here… If the quiz isn’t displaying properly for you, click here.

8 years ago

Come, traveller. Warm yourself by the quiz

8 years ago

Quiz ahoy!

8 years ago

“Find the clues or die”

8 years ago

I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask […]

8 years ago

Featuring Alex Turner on the drums

8 years ago