Mobile phones- I mourn the death of the pub quiz

[TheCumbrian]

It's just shit isn't it.

You know you are one of the only people in the room that knows that cilantro is coriander, a circadian rhythm is to do with sleep and that the band Snap! sung rhythm is a dancer before most of the room had even been born.

Yet team 'Millenial Snowflakes Drinking Gin' with their iPhone 9s win the game every time.

Disclaimer - I know think iPhone 9s don't exist. That's not the point.

Totally agree and it's fucking CHEATING. Also those with internet dating profiles with natural looking filters. How can most people compare with that? Either you join them knowing people will meet you and think you look worse in real life, or you don't even get past the first hurdle because all the filter people are getting the dates.

It all sucks

I hear you

Now i have a fabulous earworm!

Are your pubs not really strict on this?

All the ones around here are. Touch your phone and you're disqualified as a team.

The older teams win every week; without fail!

What’s the point in doing the quiz if you’re cheating anyway

This doesn't happen at the pub quizzes I go to.

Yes! I think it should be a new rule for teams to switch their phones off. Our pub quiz had a round with clues that you couldn't google and it always showed the millennials up!

I fear I'm starting to sound old and grouchy....

This infuriates me too, OP!

There's a £20 fine at ours for any one seen using their phone.

The money goes to charity.

Seems to work.

Holiday in center parc in summer this year. A team won, thought no more about it. Except i walked out of the pub behind them to hear them discussing how guilty they felt for using their phone. There were 6 of them , I think the the prize was £ 25, so just over £ 4 each. How sad would you need to be.

Well our local pubs have no WiFi and there is no 4G or even 3G in the centre of the village so no one can cheat 😊 come on over to our pub quiz

Who the fuck under thirty has ever heard of Snap! Any way.

Cheats.

The quiz at our pub has a £30 fine to anyone caught using a mobile

To combat this my local pub has a interactive quid.
You use your phone to press the answer.
The quicker you answer the more points you get.
So if you needed google you would end up last.

I occasionally go to student pub quizzes that are full of 'millenial snowflakes drinking gin' and people don't cheat.

My student dd does a pub quiz each week with her fellow students in a student town. It is done through their phones. However, the timing is crucial (I think similar to the pub quiz machines they have - used to have? - in bars and pubs). If you don't answer within x seconds you don't get the points type thing. So you don't get time to search the answer.

I hear ya
Last one we went to when the "winners" went up to claim their prize the youngsters at the table next to us who had been exemplary started to sing beautifully to the tune of bread of heaven
" where's your laptop, where's your lap top
Where's your lap top and your phone
Where's your lap top and your phone"
The biggest round of applause went to them.
Have not returned

@mycatplotsdeath We do a similar quiz here with iPads or phones and it's impossible to cheat because it's too fast.

I was skeptical but it's so fun.

I’m 29 and rhythm is a dancer was played on every night out ever when I went to uni, all my friends know it...

I’ve never done a pub quiz where you were allowed your phone at the table. That’s the whole point of them!