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  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 109

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 109

    The. Quiz. Is. Here. Stop what you’re doing. Right now. Yes, you. Especially you. You shouldn’t be doing that at work, you filth. It’s Pub Quiz time, so strap yourselves in for five rounds of high-octane quizzing. Let’s go! If the quiz isn’t displaying properly, you can take it here.

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 106

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 106

    This is the 106th JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Or is it? In publishing last week’s quiz, I apparently jumped from Week 103 to Week 105, completely skipping over Week 104, henceforth known as The JOE Friday Pub Quiz Lost to Time. So the chronology – the canon, if I may be so bold – is […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 103

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 103

    All my people right here, right now. D’you wanna do a quiiiiiiiiiiiz? Yeah, yeeeaaah. Oasis there, or as I like to call them, Oaquiz. Anyway, this week’s quiz is here because it’s this week and it’s time for the quiz of this week, which is this quiz. Round One is Rivalries, followed by Sport, followed […]

    8 years ago

  • Idris Elba explains his “problem” with Stringer Bell in The Wire

    Idris Elba explains his “problem” with Stringer Bell in The Wire

    It looks like he probably won’t be the next James Bond, but Idris Elba already has more iconic roles under his belt than most actors could dream of. The 45-year-old actor broke out as a bona fide leading man in the UK with his role as DCI John Luther in the BBC’s hit crime drama Luther. […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 100

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 100

    One. Hundred. Quizzes. That’s a lot of quizzes. A lot of quizzes, that’s what that is. You’d almost say that was too many. Especially if you wrote the damn thing every week. On this momentous day, I look back on my time holding the reigns of the JOE Friday Pub Quiz, and I think about […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 99

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 99

    Stick a flake in this week’s quiz, because it’s 99. The big 100 next week. “What are they gonna do for the centenary of the Pub Quiz?” they ask. “Maybe the top bods at JOE will throw the quizmaster a party, lavish him with fine wines and expensive cured meats. They should, y’know. Our lives […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 95

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 95

    It’s too hot. This is not the kind of weather to be writing quiz intros in, so I’ll keep this brief. It’s Travel Month on JOE, sound Round One is Travel. I know. Freaky, right? Round Two is Sport. Round Three is Who Said It? That’s where you have to guess which character said the […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 89

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 89

    Get a move on, you lot. There’s a quiz that needs doing. Hurry up, hurry up. There’s only one of these JOE Friday Pub Quizzes a week, so get on it while it’s still hot. No one likes a cold quiz. I’d rather eat cold chips than take a cold quiz, and cold chips are […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 83

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 83

    LOADING: JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ. RUN: QUIZ WELCOME PROGRAM.  Hello, quiz man/woman. I am programmed to welcome you to the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Welcome. I hope that you have your calculation hat on, and that your human CPU is in gear. Both will be required if you wish to complete the following 25 questions. […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 81

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 81

    Brought to you by Knowledge is Power Bank holiday, is it? Yeah? And? You think that means you’re taking a day off from quizzing? You think we’re taking a day off from quizzing? You must be out of your tree, mate. You’ve got your melon in a twist. Have a lie down. Nothing stops the quiz. Not […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 80

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 80

    Brought to you by Knowledge is Power I know what you’re thinking. Did he ask 25 questions or only 24? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being that this is the JOE Friday Pub Quiz, the most powerful quiz in the world, and would blow […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 78

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 78

    Sponsored by Frantics Well, well, well. Look who came crawling back. Oh you thought you could just up and leave, did you? Take my quiz, chew it up and spit it out, then head for the door – that’s your game, huh? I’m not just a quizmaster, you know; I’m a human being. And if […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 77

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 77

    Sponsored by Knowledge is Power. It. Is. Time. Time to prove yourself. Time to face your destiny. Time to let the ashes of innocence solemnly blow into the wind, and forge your new beginning. It is time for the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Round One is Italy, for no particular reason. Italy’s a thing, why […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: 76

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: 76

    Let’s see what you’re made of. Quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz You see me I be quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz You see me do me dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt There’s something ’bout that quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz When you a gon’ learn, learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Me […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 74

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 74

    Let’s get quizzical, quizzical. My thanks to Wil for covering the quiz while I was off sick last week, but I’m back and fighting fit once again, ready to throw everything I’ve got at this grand old quiz of ours. And you, my friends, are ready to take it. Round one this week is Fictional […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 72

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 72

    Yeahhhhhhhhh buddy. It’s quiz time! A collective pumping of fists thunders around the country. Kapow! For the JOE Friday Pub Quiz is here again. Let’s jump right into it, like a graceful diver, backflipping from the top board into a boiling hot pool of scalding quiz questions. Round one this week is on the 20th […]

    8 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 70

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 70

    Welcome back, ye faithful quizzers. How was your Christmas? Did you have a Happy New Year? No? Well, never mind. Even if you had a miserable break and nobody loves you, at least you’ve got the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. The JOE Friday Pub Quiz loves you. Round one this week is Missing Words – […]

    8 years ago

  • The Big 2017 JOE Pub Quiz

    The Big 2017 JOE Pub Quiz

    What a year, ladies and gentlemen. What a year. You thought 2016 was going to be the darkest, most ludicrous year on record, and then the clocks chimed midnight and 2017 steamrolled into the party to Fuck. Shit. Up. We hope your 2018 is better than your 2017 – and every other year you’ve had […]

    8 years ago

  • Apple confirms that they have definitely been slowing down your old iPhone

    Apple confirms that they have definitely been slowing down your old iPhone

    The iPhone is now almost as ubiquitous as running water or shoes. It’s just everywhere. Rivals like Samsung are taking bigger and bigger bites out of Apple’s market share, but the iPhone is a dominant force culturally, and that’s harder to tackle. The company is not without its critics though – Apple comes under fire […]

    8 years ago