Question 1: Are phone cheats killing the pub quiz?
by Alexandra Topping from on (#71FD4)
Quizmasters are banning smart devices, using dedicated apps and finding plain old honesty can combat trivial offences
Who is older, Gary Numan or Gary Oldman? If you know the answer to this question (see below), you are probably one of hundreds of thousands of Brits who attend a pub quiz every week.
As a nation of committed trivia buffs, it was unsurprising that news of a quizmaster in Manchester outing a team for cheating was leapt on. Just where, we asked, is the special place in hell reserved for those quizzers who take a sneaky look at their phones under the table?
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