How to swot up for a pub quiz?

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My husband and I have recently started taking part in a weekly pub quiz. It is usually just us two in our team and we usually do quite well. But I am wondering how we can get better? We don't stand a chance on football questions and the music round done by decades 60s-20s, we don't often manage more than the 90s and 00s. Pub quizzes have such a broad spectrum of questions it's hard to know what to look up or study.

Look out for other small teams to join with, or start to bring in other friends.

Or offer to help set the questions??

Read the news and take stuff in.
I’ve learned things like English monarchs, US presidents, capital cities (countries and US states). They come up reasonably regularly.
I do lots of online quizzes when I have downtime during the day, I watch Pointless and stuff like that 🤣. I’m quite a good person to have on your pub quiz team.

I like a pub quiz, though I haven't been to one in ages! No way would I bother swotting up though. You need to recruit a couple more team members who can plug the gaps in your knowledge. In spite of being a staunch atheist, I know the books of the bible (old an new testaments) in order, which comes in handy sometimes

Do as many quizzes as you can and make notes as you go, writing things down makes them stick better.

Go on YouTube and type in pub quizzes there are loads on there and you can get a bit of practice in

Get more pub quiz team members who can plug the gaps.

Do lots of different pub quizzes - the same questions tend to come up every now and then.

Know your pub quiz / pick your pub quiz. I do three, one is just 4 rounds of general knowledge and a picture round. The quiz is always pulled from a pre-made quiz site so you have a good chance of having heard the questions before. At e.g. Halloween you can pretty much Google 'halloween pub quiz' and know what questions you will get before you get there.

Another has 1 round of general knowledge, a music round, a themed round, a picture round and a wipeout round and a few other bits and pieces/extra 'quests' etc. Completely random from week to week so you need to be a good all round team.

Another had 3 rounds of general knowledge, a picture round, a film and tv round and a really long music round . For that one we have people who are strong on music/film.

Most important though is remember its just for fun. Hate hate hate cheaters. Mobile phones have ruined the pub quiz.

Do capital cities and flags off Sporcle or similar sites.

We find that a range of ages in your team helps. We are a team of people who range in age from 17 to 60 and we've currently won for 19 weeks in a row.
What we have found is that the only thing worth studying is music and we do radio music quizzes like Popmaster and 10 from the Top plus listen to stations like Absolute 70s/80s/90s etc.
Also try reading quiz books (recently published ones) and doing quick general knowledge quizzes in newspapers etc. It all helps but basically it comes down to luck. We're current champions in our weekly pub quiz but the other teams are getting closer to us 🙂