The SYP Pub Quiz

Posted on July 29, 2010 in Uncategorized

At the beginning of June, the SYP hosted another round of its famous pub quiz, as part of The Book Trade Charity’s Action Week. Teams from the publishing world, including quizzers from Dorling Kindersley, Little, Brown, Waterstones, Inspired Selection, JFL, The Bookseller and Hodder Education, among others, met at Sway Bar in Holborn for an evening of literary competition. Imaginative entries to the ‘best team name’ competition included ‘Not just vampires!’, ‘Agatha Quizty’, ‘You’re a QUIZZARD, Harry!’ and ‘Matt Art and the B-Formats’.

Hosted by Simon Juden and written by SYP committee members, the seven challenging rounds included a literary warm up, sports, film and TV and history rounds, a picture round requiring teams to recognise books from their cover art alone, a ‘famous last words’ round in which the teams had to identify a selection of the 50 best-selling books of the year from their last lines, and finally, a special round on volcanoes, dedicated to this year’s London Book Fair!

The winners were ‘Kill your Darlings’ (Lisa Brannstrom, Tori Hunt, Jon Slack, Ron Leyman, Nick Johnston and Iain Miller, below). A wooden spoon was presented to the three losing teams, who took it in good part.

A fantastic selection of raffle prizes were also on offer, which included: an iPod Shuffle, courtesy of The Literary Platform, and a 3 month subscription to the Spoken Ink audio story website; a limited edition bottle of 20-year-old Rebus whiskey (worth £1800), donated by Orion to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the publication of Ian Rankin’s first Inspector Rebus novel; two tickets to the Globe exhibition and theatre tour; two tickets to Beating Burlusconi at the King’s Head, Islington; two tickets to the Rio cinema; four tickets to July’s Literary Death Match; two tickets to the London Movie Walk tour; two tickets to the Pleasance theatre; a signed Primrose Bakery cookbook and voucher for four cupcakes; a £10 Daunt Books voucher; a selection of Headline books; ten books by Salt Publishing; bottle of bubbly from the Wilmington Arms, Farringdon; five Landscape Photographer of the Year Collection 03 books and two tickets for the opening night of the Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition; a signed copy of Maggie O’Farrell’s The Hand that First Held Mine. Many thanks go to our kind donors.

The event raised over £1500 for The Book Trade Charity. For more information on their work, click here.