FIRST Denk Mal! Quiz .. 30 November. Es geht wieder los!

Greetings, Queops!!

It's T-2 days and we still have a few tables left for our first DENK MAL! QUIZ.
If you want one of them, PHONE Denkmal Lounge at 030/ 2060 9289... all the other info in the post(s) below .. or in the FB group

Wir haben noch ein paar freie Tische, ruft für Reservierungen bitte direkt in der Denkmal Lounge an ..

DENK MAL! - new quiz, old rules..

For all of you who haven't had the pleasure.. here are the current general rules for DENK MAL! quiz
.. wer bis zu Ende liest findet natürlich auch die deutsche Version :)

General rules & rounds

• Denk Mal! Quiz is brought to you in English and German and usually consists of 5 rounds with 10 questions each 
• entry fee is 5€ per table (NO COPPER COINS!!!)
• max. 6 players per team. Teams with 7 players get 1 point deducted in each round. Teams of 8 players and more have to split up. NO exceptions/ excuses :)
• you get pens & answer sheets when you register your team.

• each round is split into 2 topics, 5 questions each (music, sports, assorted bullshit, history, picture puzzles, geography.... and much more) .. there's something for almost every nationality, age, and field of expertise..

• After you’ve answered all 10 questions, swap your answer sheet with one of your friendly neighbouring teams, mark according to the correct answers given by the MerryKwizMiz, do the math, and hand in the sheets. 
• Winners of the round get vodka shots, losers get peanuts.

• Joker Round – the topics of the 5 rounds are announced before kick-off. Pick the one you think you’ll do best at and double your points in that round (choice must be announced before kick-off). Unless stated otherwise, every round yields 20 points.

• Creativity counts - if you do not have the correct answers, try and come up with something creative or funny. Do not waste points by leaving blanks – funny might get you points, blanks won’t.

• Repeated smart-arsing, showing off, and other annoying behaviour will lead to yellow cards (first offence) and red cards with an automatic 1-point deduction. Smart-arses have to wear the Silly Hat of Shame until a new offender is found.

• Shame on cheats – the use of mobile devices of any kind during the rounds will be punished by deduction of half the points in the respective round. No exceptions or excuses. If you have a brain you won’t need a smartphone (at least not for the quiz).

• Winners get a bottle of vodka or whiskey, second team gets a round of drinks. The last team gets the chance to pick a topic for two of the questions rounds in the following quiz (aka Yogi Round).

allgemeine Regeln & Runden

• Denk Mal! Quiz wird euch in Deutsch und Englisch dargeboten und besteht üblicherweise aus 5 Runden mit je 10 Fragen
• Startgebühr ist 5€ pro Tisch (KEINE KUPFERMÜNZEN!!!!)
• max. 6 Spieler pro Team, Teams mit 7 Spielern erhalten 1 Punkt Abzug pro Runde. Teams von 8 oder mehr Spielern müssen sich aufteilen. KEINE Ausnahmen oder Ausreden :)
• Antwortzettel und Stifte gibt’s bei Anmeldung 

• jede Runde teilt sich auf in 2 Themen mit jeweils 5 Fragen (Musik, Sport, Geography, Geschichte, vermischter Blödsinn, Bilderrätsel.. und noch viel mehr), für jede Nationalität, Altersgruppe und die meisten Interessengebiete ist etwas dabei...

• am Ende der Runde Antwortzettel mit dem freundlichen Nachbarteam tauschen, die Antworten der Nachbarn anhand der vorgelesenen richtigen Antworten bewerten, Punkte zusammen zählen und die Zettel der MerryKwizMiz aushändigen. 
• Gewinner der Runde bekommen Wodka-Shots, Verlierer bekommen Erdnüsse. 

• Joker-Runde – die Themen der Runden werden vor Beginn bekannt gegeben, jedes Team wählt sich eine Lieblingsrunde, in der sie ihre Punkte verdoppeln. Die Wahl muß vor Anpfiff bekannt gegeben werden. Falls nicht anders angegeben, hat jede Runde 20 Punkte.

• Kreativität zählt – wer die richtigen Antworten gerade nicht parat hat, darf sich gern in Humor und Kreativität versuchen. Wer Antworten ausläßt, verschenkt einfach nur Punkte. 

• Häufiges Klugscheißen, Angeben oder andere nervtötende Unarten werden beim ersten Verstoß mit der gelben Karte, bei wiederholten Verstößen mit Rot und 1 Punkt Abzug geahndet. Missetäter müssen den Peinlichen Hut der Schande tragen, bis sich ein anderer Klugscheißer findet.

• Mogeln ist für Muppets – die Verwendung von Smartphones und andern Hilfsmitteln während der Runden wird mit Abzug der Hälfte der Punkte in dieser Runde geahndet. KEINE Ausnahmen oder Ausreden. Wer ein Hirn hat braucht (zumindest für’s Quiz) kein 'smart phone'.

• Das Siegerteam bekommt eine Flasche Wodka oder Whiskey, die Zweitplatzierten bekommen ein Runde Getränke. Die Letzten dürfen das Thema für zwei der Fragerunden im darauffolgenden Quiz bestimmen (das sogenannte Yogi-Thema).

DENK MAL! - It's happening...

HOUSTON WE HAVE QUIZ.
T- 16 days.

The first DENK MAL! Quiz kicks off on Thursday 30 November, 8pm.
The tech check was successful and all that's left to do for me is make ansa sheets and assemble a quiz. The format, for now, remains the old one (questions? read the rules or hit me with questions).

RESERVATIONS are a MUST, and can be made either in the FB group or you can simply PHONE DENKMAL 030/20609289. Any day from 1pm.

Und natürlich ist das Denk Mal! Quiz zweisprachig (English und Deutsch) und auch Fragen und Kommentare werden in mindestens zwei Sprachen beantwortet :)

DENK MAL! Pub Quiz
Denkmal Lounge Irish Pub
Auguststraße 92 (Mitte/Ecke Oranienburger)
10117 Berlin
fon 030/20609289
mail: quiz_miz@hotmail.com

New beginnings.. again? Denk Mal!

Gooooooooooood morning Queops!

After a long-ish absence (and some withdrawal symptoms), some - hopefully good - quiz news.

We might have found us a new home.

Denkmal Lounge Irish Pub, Auguststraße 92, 10117 Berlin.

It's an Irish/international/German/50s&60s pub/sports bar, HUUUGE, with lots of space, 11 ginormous TV screens, cozy seating, all the tech we need, beer bargains, the cleanest and most spacious toilets I've seen in a long time, and very nice international staff. And almost literally round the corner from Oscar's.. 

For all the pros there are a few cons.. 

It's a smokers' pub but we can simply take the ashtrays off the table and smoke outside between rounds.., just like we did in Oscar's. The more of us, the fewer 'non-quiz' people who smoke in the front.

As a smokers' pub it has no kitchen. BUT there's a lovely Italian resto across the road where you can pick up quiz nosh (or even get it delivered). Also - it's just off Oranienburger Straße .. loads of international food just minutes away.

It's large but basically just one room(ish)... we'd need a few teams to be in the majority ;) ..

Oh, and Schalke fans might have to wear sunglasses, the interior has shades of yellow and black :)))

All that said, I'm totally willing to give it a go (we could keep our'm not willing to travel round town to check all the other pubs...

So - Denkmal Lounge Irish Pub it is.. or is it?  Do check it out (best way is to go there and have a look  & a pint) ...and let me know what you think (comment here or mail me).. I for one am dying to ask all the stupid questions I've collected this summer :D

Happy November (or Movember, or Yesvember.. )

Merry QuizMiz

This is the end, my friends.... A Wilde Quiz Swan Song

On #DelugeDay, at the end of an exciting and fun Champions League final (in which Fietscherings****** beat CannonballZ** by HALF A POINT and gathered their 6th Wilde Quiz Champions title) we were hit over the head with the sad (but no quite unexpected) news that the Oscar Wilde Irish Pub closes its gates on 16 July. Not only do we mourn a place were friends were made, football followed, were Guinness flowed freely and languages were learned, we also have to say good bye to the institution that was, for almost 15 years, YE WILDE QUIZ.

It is with a heavy heart and more than one tear in our eyes that we announce the VERY, VERY, VERY LAST WILDE QUIZ. In which we are going to partay, ask and answer questions, laugh and drink, play silly games, and reminisce the f*** out of the night.
We have 4 tables left on TUESDAY 11 July. The door to the back bar will open at 7pm (the quiz starts at 8pm) and (most of) the ususal rules apply.

Mail your reservation requests, questions, and/or comments to quiz_miz@hotmail.com. 

Whatever the future might bring is unclear as yet. Maybe we'll move on to another place, maybe we'll meet in the park. And maybe we'll never meet again.. For updates do watch this space.

The End is nigh... of Champions League season 18

Queops, the summer is (finally?) upon us and we want to bring the exciting Wilde Quiz Champions League Season 18 to an end before we all, at various times, head into the summer hols.. Only 3 quizzes left and although it seems as if Fietscherings have already run away with their 6th title, we might still see the finishing line attack of Great BallZ on Fire... or Powerpoints on the prowl. In the quiz biz you never know...

After the fun night that was WQ#224 (with F-words, trips down memory lane, polyphonic ringtones & the novelty 'movie scene song' round) we meet again for WQ#225 on Thursday 1 June at 8pm.. YAY - KINDERTAG!!
There will be rounds on (not of) fast food and fast animals (and slow ones), kinder(leichte) Fragen and sightseeing trips. And we will celebrate the return of the fresh Raspberry Ginger Mint Lime Vodka Shot. YUM!!

We still have 4 tables for teams looking for a challenge (or looking to challenge) .. bookings by mail to quiz_miz@hotmail.com... NO PHONE CALLS to Oscar Wilde, I won't get them before Thursday night and that's too late.

The remainder of season 18 will be played in June.

WQ#226 - Thursday 15 June, 8pm
WQ#227 - Thursday 29 June, 8pm

Dates for July and August are yet to be confirmed.

Bücher, Berge, Ben Skywalker & Great BallZ* on fire - WQ#223

Well, that was fun again... and now that BallZ** have entered the race proper, and moved up to second place, the Wilde Quiz Champions League season 18 is getting interesting...

1. CannonballZ** 99
2. Quizzers w/ Attitude 90,5
3. Pünktchen 85,5
4. Fietscherings***** 77,5
5. Quiz in my Pants 63
6. Yvonne III 59,5
7. Moostard 57,5
8. Vom Fuchs Geleckt 52
9. P2P 46,5

The next quiz is WQ#224 on Thursday 11 May (the Thursday before Eurowischen #justsaying) and we still have 5 tables.

Then we take a 3-week break till 1 June (Kindertag!!!) ... the next Wilde Quiz dates are

WQ#224   11 May

WQ#225   1 June

WQ#226   15 June

WQ#227   29 June

See you on of those days,