Kirbs back on the quiz

By Chris Valli

‘It’s always a goody at the Woody’ and now it’s even better with a weekly quiz to be run by Blenheim quiz master Glenn Kirby. The interactive Believe it or Not quiz format contains eight rounds of ten questions, a ‘Ponderous Puzzle’ and ‘The List’ with categories changing every week to ensure a wide variety of subjects are covered.

There is also an optional jackpot round of questions at the end of each quiz which provides a chance for teams to take home extra prizes for finishing first, second, random (done by the date of the month) and second to last.

Woodbourne Tavern co-owner Stacey Goodwin says Believe it or Not Founder and Sales Manager Brendan Lochead approached her to suggest ‘The Woody’ needed to run a regular weekly quiz and knew of the ‘right person’.

The quiz host is an integral part of any quiz night.

Glenn Kirby comes with an extensive resume after twelve years involvement as quizmaster with the former Clubs of Marlborough weekly Wednesday quiz nights.

Glenn says the new venue is exciting and he is looking forward to a new group and night of punters including the greater Renwick community.

“It will be very interesting as Wednesday nights did break up the week, “Glenn says.

“Now that it’s a Thursday and more of a drinking day, it could be better,” he laughs.

“The closer the date, the more excited I’m getting. Hearing people’s feedback and talk on the street is awesome.”

The quiz will be run at the taverns back bar which is already set up with TV screens.

Stacey says there is the option of opening up the front bar if numbers dictate. The tavern had run quizzes five years ago during the winter and Stacey says it went okay without huge numbers. The inclusion of Glenn as quizmaster she says is a point of difference and a great drawcard.

“If we couldn’t get Glenn there was no point in doing it,” she says. “He was the key.”

The ‘free’ quiz night starts next Thursday, April 27. Registrations are at 6:30pm with the quiz starting at 7:15pm.

Established in 1998, in Auckland, Believe it or Not Quiz Nights are New Zealand’s largest provider of trivia, quiz questions, weekly pub quizzes and quiz nights to the corporate sector.

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