Cheatwell Games' Host Your Own Pub Quiz is a trivia game designed to be played by two competing teams. That's probably not the format for most Pub Quizes, which tend to involve a dozen or so competing table teams, but no matter - it's a team trivia game, if maybe more suitable for competitive family get togethers rather than your local pub.
The mainstay of any trivia game is of course the questions, and this game comes with a generous pack of cards, each giving five questions in one of eight designated categories: TV& Film, Science & Nature, Music, Sports & Pastimes, Places, Food & Drink, History and Art & Literature. The cards in the main game are double-sided with one category on one side and another on the other, so you'll just use four cards for the 40 questions of a full eight round quiz. Each team has a 'Joker'. They choose which round (category) they'll play it to and it will double their score for that round. Obviously, you need to choose the category where you're playing your Joker before you hear the actual questions.
Usually with trivia games that use cards, the answers are given on the back of the card. That's the norm, for example, in Trivial Pursuit (Hasbro). There's an immediate convenience in having answers on the flipside but it can be problematic if a player is reading out questions for which they may subsequently be offering an answer: it's all too easy to accidentally peek at the reverse of the card, or for a fellow team member to glimpse the answer. To avoid this Host Your Own Pub Quiz puts a reference number on each card. The answers are all printed in an answer book. When the quiz is over and both teams' answers are all in, you just look up the card's number in the answer book. Simples!
There's a good range of questions but the USP in this game is its scoring. The game comes with two large scoreboard flip charts. It's very satisfying seeing scores accumulate on the flip charts as you go through the answers together. Of course, it's only actually the scoring flip charts that limits game play to two teams. If you want to use the questions in a conventional multi-team pub quiz, you can easily do so and just forego the flip charts.
With 50 cards for each category, you could run 50 eight-round quizes from this box without every duplicating a question, but if you want more then Cheatwell Games have you covered with a set of expansion boxes, each with a 'typical' British pub name. The one you can glimpse here on Board's Eye View is the White Hart edition: particularly apt for us as the local games group that many of us attend started life in the White Hart in Sevenoaks. Each of the expansions offers a batch of 80 more cards (10 in each category).
The expansions revert to giving answers on the back of the card but they are only dependent on the core game for the scoring flip charts. That means you can use them as standalone trivia quiz sets...