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I run pub quizzes as a little side gig in normal times, and I held my first one since lockdown online for some friends last night. Went well overall but there were just one or two kinks to iron out so I need to hold one or two more before I launch this as part of my website (am I allowed to post a link to my site? Not sure). Anyone interested in being part of my next effort, which would be this weekend or early next week? If enough are interested I could do a town end members only quiz. Whadda ya say huh?

Yeah, I'd have a go

Me and the wife do about 8 a week of these online quizzes and they are great under lockdown, would be very much up for one.

Sounds good.  Yes pls.

What about a 3pm Saturday Town/Football type quiz to get people through the time when there would ordinarily be a game?

That's a good idea, I should have time to write something for tomorrow. I'm not a massive fan of quizzes that rely totally on a theme, but I can incorporate STFC as a sort of motif.

The typical format for my quizzes is on my site, www.quizfiend.co.uk, feel free to take a look. So that's four people playing thus far. Would be nice to see are least ten

Couple of things:

You'll need to download the zoom app and familiarise yourself with it

Last night's quiz took just under two hours in total, that was with about 30 or so people playing, I expect that it'll be closer to an hour and a half next time

Definitely interested. I will have to look into zoom as its new to me

The wife uses zoom often for her work and knows it well and we do some quizzes over it too.

Apparently there are stability issues tomorrow with the latest planned update due to regionalization.

There is a limit of 50 participants without full registration but a fair few more if you sign up for a full account.

Seems to work well with only a short delay.

There is a 1 hour time limit on the free zoom which you can get round by logging off and back in. The business version is unlimited.

i use all of the main ones for work. Hangouts is my preference Just easier to set up and join

Have been doing virtual pub crawls with mates on Zoom, its good.

Seem to get more hammered than as if you were in the pub :D

Arriba, hope you can make it!

I wasn't aware that they are rolling out an update, thanks for the heads up, I'll look into it. It worked perfectly yesterday, I upgraded to the licensed version, which importantly gets rid of the 40 minute meeting limit, and was very impressed with how well it worked.

My main issue was that the video I made for the music round was taken down from YouTube almost immediately so I had to play the songs through a Bluetooth speaker straight into my phone. Wasn't ideal but nobody struggled to make out what the songs were, it just didn't sound as good. Working on a better solution today.

Tans, suttonred, you guys fancy it?

Can you put me down as a maybe? We've signed up to deliver some home made veggie food to some of  the homeless up in Brixton and so will be walking up there and back. I should be back for 3pm but can't be certain unfortunately. 

No probs, you can always join even if you are a bit late and it's already started, seeing as we wont be playing for any prize other than bragging rights

Thanks a million :)

Im in

Excellent!

Could upload the vid to Google Drive (or similar) and share the link instead?

For the purposes of tomorrow's quiz I seem to have sorted the video out, but its been a right pain up the ring. I'll give your idea a go, thanks

So, tomorrow's quiz will be at 15:00. The room will be open from 14:55 for people to join, if you are playing you are quite welcome to invite friends or family who you think might be interested to form their own teams. The quiz itself is five rounds, and I've adapted it so that it's a mixture of STFC stuff, other football trivia and general knowledge. I think I've got the balance right, but it won't be as fun for people with a football phobia, which I think I'm safe in assuming is nobody here. A friend of mine who is also a member of the forum and works for the NHS is playing and he's going to see if he can rope any of his colleagues in, so let's give them some particular appreciation if they make it. Meeting ID is 4264446004 and the password is 965164. You should come up with a team name (when you enter the meeting you can put it as your identifier), political correctness doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned, but I'd advise against 'Norfolk n' Chance' as I had three teams with that as their handle yesterday! All you need is a pen and paper, the app and your thinking caps. Any questions feel free to ask them here or send me a message. Looking forward to this, should be a blast!

Looking forward to it.  3pm on Saturday...nice touch.

Unfortunately I won't be able to do this today as I've some errands to run later. Hope it goes well

If the wife has finished with Zoom in time I will be there.

Do you have to pay for Zoom?

Nope! I paid for the licensed version to get rid of the time limit in meetings I host, but as a participant you can join without paying. Basic plan is all you need.

Arriba, thanks for letting me know, Ardiles and Venkman and others joining later, see yous in a bit!

If you need a hand with anything zoom wise Audrey give me a shout

Well, I’ve loaded it. No idea what to do with it.

Once your signed in you just need to find the join meeting button. Then enter the meeting id and password I put in my long post last night at 2:55 and your away. If you have time to have a little play you can create your own meeting now and just familiarise yourself with it. It's pretty intuitive

OK. Hopefully I’ll see you lot later!

Mrs Audrey is joining me - got to have one sentient brain

Just thought I'd bump this with half an hour or so to go. If you want to join today's STFC/Football/General knowledge quiz on zoom, meeting ID is 4264446004 and password is 965164. Play along
with whoever is in your house and bring booze

Thanks for playing guys! As I said at the end I'll do another one soon if there is interest for it. Enjoy the rest of your Saturday!

Smashing quiz (even though I bombed in the music round).  And thanks for teaching me that Martin Ling has one of the best win %s as Swindon manager.  I've learned something.

Thanks,  that was good,  unfortunately like Audrey didn't know what to expect,  have not got microphone or camera on computer but played along not realising I was registered - wurzel - also unable to find send button,  but scored a measly 38.
Anyone who missed it, well worth a go next time.       Thanks for your time and effort,  other than running out of beer and stabbing yourself you did us proud.

Ha, Ha, got that one - but only 3 others !!!!!.

Aaaah, the enigmatic Wurzel! Sorry for the couple of technical hitches you suffered, hope it didn't diminish the experience at all. Your feedback is still very handy, I'll adapt my next quiz based on how I feel today went. Thanks for playing, keep an eye out for the next one!

Thanks for playing Ardiles and Ardiles's missus (who's name I shall not divulge). I'll do another one soon, keep em' peeled

Just managed to get back online too late for this :( the wife and daughter were hogging bandwidth on zoom themselves.

Hopefully if you get round to it again I will make it along.

No problem mate! I'm going to do another one very soon, early next week I expect, I'll pot details when I've got everything sorted

Excellent stuff!

Not me.  I was the ringer for Jan-Aage (apparently)!

Enjoyed that. Me and Mrs Audrey won - I think.

Whoops, got my names to faces the wrong way around! Audrey, you were indeed victorious!

Audrey's the Greek fella  ;)