“Socialism is a hopeless proposition” Jeremy Clarkson has never been a shrinking violet. From his newspaper columns to his general throwaway comments, he has never been one to shy away from speaking his mind. With the 2019 election just around the corner, he spoke to JOE about his feelings of disdain towards Britain’s current political […]

6 years ago

Sponsored by O2 Your regular quizmaster is back, but for the last time Yes, I am retiring from the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Having done well over 100 of these, it’s time to put this old warhorse out to pasture and for some young foals to gallop away into a new meadow of possibilities, while […]

7 years ago

Anna Amato moved to Britain when she was a baby Her parents came from Turin in the 1960s to join Britan’s workforce. Fifty five years later, Anna is being denied British citizenship due to “insufficient evidence”. JOE went to Bristol, where Anna has lived for almost her entire life, to meet her. Anna had lived […]

7 years ago

Will the government collapse? What’s gonna happen with Brexit? Is the world ending? Where are my keys? The world is full of certainty, but the one thing you can rely on is the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. One hundred and fifty five weeks of solid quizzing – now that’s something you can depend on. Elect […]

7 years ago

This week, the government launched an advertising campaign telling businesses and the public to ‘Get ready for Brexit’. The campaign has been reported to cost £100m and will see billboards and social media adverts rolled out across the UK. Michael Gove said that the adverts encourage a “shared responsibility” regarding preparations for leaving the European Union. […]

7 years ago

Here’s a quiz, then. If you love the Pub Quiz, you might want to get it before everyone else does. If that’s the case, I recommend that you sign up to the JOE weekly newsletter, where you’ll be sent the Pub Quiz before the rest of the ingrates get into it.

7 years ago

I’m back! Yes, I’ve been gone for three weeks, but your regular quizmaster is back to serve you up some delicious questions for your Friday lunchtime. In fact, I’m so back that I’ve left it til the absolute last minute again, and therefore this is all I’m going to write for the intro. Wanna get […]

7 years ago

McVitie’s and Mind are encouraging the nation to get together over a biscuit and a cuppa and get talking. To find out more click here What makes a good conversation? And why is talking so important? Rob Kendall has spent the last 30 years exploring the nature of thinking and the skills of effective conversation. For […]

7 years ago

I’m going on holiday next week “Didn’t you just go on holiday?” you ask. That’s my business. And yes. But it was only for, like, four days, and I still managed to get the quiz out, so leave me alone. The reason I bring up next week’s holiday is that I won’t be around for […]

7 years ago

This week it’s a BYOI Pub Quiz: Bring Your Own Intro. Just drop it in here. It can be whatever you like. A poem, a sonnet, a long diatribe about how the Pub Quizmaster has been neglecting the intro of late. Hey, it’s completely up to you! Anyways, here’s the quiz.

7 years ago

I’m on holiday today, so if you have any issues with this week’s quiz, send them on a postcard to Berlin. I will reply to all relevant correspondence when I return. Yours sincerely The Pub Quiz Master

7 years ago

You want the quiz, so here it is No time for a funny intro this week. “But the intros are never funny,” you say. Well then. Nothing changes. Shout out to Fran and Reuben for helping out on the quiz this week. This is dedicated to you guys. Yes, we’re doing dedications in the Pub […]

7 years ago

Guess what? I did the Pub Quiz in advance for once! It’s Thursday afternoon as I write this, almost an entire day before it’s due to go out. I am the master of organisation. I am an Olympian of forward planning. All this extra time gives me more space to really craft a thoughtful, insightful […]

7 years ago

The UK was due to undergo a porn block on 15 July The block, laid out under the Digital Economy Act, would mean that access to pornography across the UK would automatically blocked. People who wish to access pornography would have to use an age verification service to prove they are over 18. Intended to prevent […]

7 years ago

“Where the fuck was Rich Cooper last week?” said no one. First of all, thanks to my heroes/mates Wayne Farry and Wil Jones for filling in on the Pub Quiz at short notice. Just to clarify a few points raised in last week’s quiz intro: I did not have my foot stuck in a toilet, […]

7 years ago

How do your number skills add up?

7 years ago

“What’s the worst thing about doing the JOE Friday Pub Quiz?” someone asked me on the street the other day. I say ‘someone’. It was actually no one. The only thing I ever get asked on the street is, “Sir, can you please get a fucking move on?” I am a dawdler by nature, and […]

7 years ago

Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour party after voting for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections One of Brexit’s most prominent critics, Campbell revealed on Sunday night that he had voted Lib Dem “to try to persuade Labour to do right thing” on Britain’s departure from the European […]

7 years ago

See ya, Theresa. Wouldn’t wanna be ya Now that the PM is going to have a bit of spare time in the near future, perhaps she’d like to peruse the back catalogue of the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. While I’ve no doubt that Theresa was a regular on the Pub Quiz while in office, it’s […]

7 years ago

sadfdsaffggggg fgfddfg sadfsdafssdanvnvngngngng ^ This is what I usually have as a placeholder for the Pub Quiz intro while it gets checked for errors, but a number of people within JOE have said they prefer it to the nonsense I usually come out with. So that’s it. That’s the intro this week.

7 years ago

There’s no Pub Quiz intro this week. Instead, here are the first few lines from Dante’s Inferno. Enjoy! MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, […]

7 years ago

This week’s Pub Quiz intro is a guest post from Charlie, a dog I met in the park yesterday Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Grrrrrrrr. BARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARK Make sure you subscribe to the JOE newsletter. It’s really rather ripping! WOOF WOOF.

7 years ago

Terms and Conditions: NOW TV Prize details: 1x NOW TV Sky Sports Day Pass There will be 10x winners selected. Each winner will win 1x NOW TV Sky Sports Day Pass Terms and Conditions To enter the competition, entrants needs to retweet the competition tweet, posted by FootballJOE and follow the FootballJOE Twitter account. The […]

7 years ago

This week on the JOE Friday Pub Quiz, we’re bringing back an old friend Longterm fans of the Quiz may remember that we used to do a weekly Alphabet Quiz. Well, for one week only, we’re bringing it back for a special Pub Quiz round. However, I can’t really squeeze 26 questions into one round, […]

7 years ago

Hello, the Quizmaster is out of office for Easter

7 years ago

Have you subscribed to the JOE newsletter yet? If you’re a Pub Quiz regular, you’ll want to get your hands on it as soon as you possibly can. If you sign up for the newsletter, you’ll be the first to get it, and straight to your inbox as well. How about that? It also means […]

7 years ago

Once again, I have left the JOE Pub Quiz introduction far too late. What you have to understand is, writing this quiz takes absolutely ages. I’ve done almost 100 of them now (JOE Pub Quiz historians will remember that I am not the father of the quiz; the quiz is my adopted son) – do […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by PlayStation We were meant to leave the European Union today. That went well, didn’t it? Forget all that for now, though. In this increasingly complicated world, where everything is upside down and nothing makes sense, what we need is an easy, straightforward quiz. The JOE Friday Pub Quiz, for example. Of […]

7 years ago

I was rushing through London’s Kings Cross yesterday morning when I felt a tug on my coat “That’s weird,” I thought, as I was yanked backwards into oblivion. Bobbing and weaving through the crowds of other exasperated commuters, you often bump into people. But this was different. It felt like I was snagged on something, […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by PlayStation How do you react to life’s little annoyances? We’re not talking major irritations like having all your money stolen or witnessing your favourite bike explode. It’s the more regular, everyday annoyances, like slow walkers or people eating smelly food on the bus. We’ll give you a few scenarios, you tell […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by PlayStation St Patrick’s Day is this Sunday, and boy am I excited This year I’ve chosen to spend St Patrick’s Day in Carlisle. More specifically: Carlisle train station, AKA Grand Party Central. The plan for the sesh is enormous. First, I’m going to hit up the WH Smith in the foyer, […]

7 years ago

JOE spoke to Annie Mac, BBC Radio 1 DJ, about her journey to the top of the music business One of the most prominent women in broadcasting, Annie Mac is spearheading Smirnoff’s Equalising Music campaign to make the music industry a more equal place. The music business is famously male-dominated; one need only look through the […]

7 years ago

How would you like it if we got a comedian to read out the Pub Quiz in an interactive video? Say, I don’t know, Al Murray? You would like it? Well, what a coincidence, because we got Al Murray to read out the Pub Quiz in an interactive video. It’s a small world after all. […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by PlayStation Heard you like quizzes. Weird. It’s not weird that you like quizzes. Quizzes are good, and it’s good to like quizzes. It’s just weird that you happen to like quizzes, and there’s a quiz right here. Strange, right? I’d call it a coincidence, but I don’t believe in coincidences. I’d […]

7 years ago

Sponsored by PlayStation Big plans this weekend? No? Let us help you out. PlayStation have launched Something For The Weekend?, a collection of fun multiplayer games that anyone can enjoy whatever situation you’re in. Whether you’re fancying a bit of co-op, or maybe some pass the controller action, if you’ve got everyone coming round, or […]

7 years ago

The joe Friday Pub Quiz is back and congratulations are in order – it is quiz master Rich’s 29th birthday, so don’t let him down

7 years ago

I have a choice to make right now I can choose to stay and write a really excellent intro for the Pub Quiz, which I usually spend hours poring over and meticulously crafting. Ensuring that every joke lands perfectly, that the prose rolls along like a gentle ocean ripple, that every piece of punctuation is […]

7 years ago

The lights go down in the Hackney Empire A detuned radio, searching for the right frequency, buzzes and fills the grand old space with noise. Striding out onto the stage, a ragtag band of musicians. Some old, some young, all flares and floral prints. The band begin to play the softly strummed chords of ‘Space […]

7 years ago

This week I spoke to one of the people who invented the pub quiz I don’t mean the JOE Pub Quiz. I know that guy. He has two cats. He’s a good guy, and I’m led to believe the cats are good guys too. I mean the actual concept of the pub quiz, i.e. a […]

7 years ago

I forced a bot to read every JOE Friday Pub Quiz intro and then asked it to write one of its own. Here’s what it came up with. Hello, quizmen! I am drunk again. Yes, another heavy week of being me has led to this moment, your favourite of the week: the JOE Friday Pub […]

7 years ago

‘Doctor, my eyes are leaking out of my face and my brain has swollen to eight times its usual size. What’s wrong with me?’ The doctor took off his glasses, sighing as he slipped them into his top coat pocket. “Mr Cooper,” he said, levelling me with a grave look. “I’m afraid to say, you’re […]

7 years ago

I’ve got exactly 17 minutes to write this week’s introduction Yes, believe it or not there is a hard deadline for the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Well, hard in the same way that a hard-boiled egg is. It’s not really hard, is it? You can chuck a hard-boiled egg at a toddler and probably get […]

7 years ago

The Thin White Duke may be gone, but the spirt of David Bowie lives on through his music A huge night celebrating the life and music of Bowie is coming to London’s Hackney Empire. Bowie Experience is an emotional celebration of the ultimate pop icon and his music – a spectacular concert featuring all of the […]

7 years ago

Fancy a US road trip to defeat these bad boys?

7 years ago

Or: I spent a week living in 2001 and had a great time.

7 years ago

“Is this the best a man can get?” Gillette have released a new advert which tackles toxic masculinity and sexual harassment, issuing a challenge to men to “stop excusing bad behaviour”. The commercial examines a number of stereotypes and common behaviours of men masculinity, such as the idiom ‘boys will be boys’ which is often […]

7 years ago

“Walkin’ ma dog this morning and seen a junkie hangin’ from a lamppost.” Just another day in Scotland.

7 years ago

Let’s have a quiz then

7 years ago

Happy New Year, everyone! I hate to break this to you, but I haven’t been crafting these quizzes over the festival period. I’ve written these all well in advance. This is the last one I have to do, and I’ll level with you, doing four Pub Quizzes in the time it normally takes me to […]

7 years ago

Crikey, fellas. What a year. What a bloody year it’s been There have been some ups. There have been an extraordinary number of downs. Mainly downs, if we’re honest. When historians look back at 2018 they’ll say… well, they’ll say nothing, because humanity will have been wiped out by that point, and I for one […]

7 years ago