The Beaconsfield

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Crumbling pub near Manor House.

A contender to finally take the 'perfect local' title from The Grove, as it contains a dart board, two pool tables, a big screen and gallons of beer. It falls down on the terminal lack of Geoff-spec barmaids and the fact that it is near Manor House.

Also hosts a local quiz night every Thursday. Friki has entered a team in this quiz five times as of 23rd January 2007. It has won twice and finished second twice, with one lowly finish after Friki hit the lager too early in the night and lost the ability to write.

The "It's Not Domination!" Controversy

This winning streak has angered some locals, unhappy that their prizes (a bottle of cheap wine for 2nd place, some random coinage for the winners) are being carried off by one team.

In many ways, the problem is similar to one faced by The Chin back in 2004, when everyone moaned that he and Ferrari were too good and winning all the time, and rather than trying to get better themselves, wanted the rules changed to help them.

In the instance of the pub quiz, Friki was successfully stared menacingly at for long enough last time to convince it to cede the crown for a few weeks and allow someone else to win.

We'll be back though...

Friki Update

Friki recently returned to the Beaconsfield Quiz Night after a lengthy absence, and won AGAIN (a prize consisting of a whopping £11 winners kitty and a really ropey bottle of wine from the local offie).

This was despite the quizmaster initially refusing to give Friki an answer sheet, only ceding after repeated wails of "GOT QUIZ?" from Friki's corner. It may have been that as Friki was embroiled in a four-way pool tournament at the time he first came round, he assumed we were too busy for his questions, though in reality he was probably hoping Friki would fuck off.

Questions were thrown up regarding the mental condition of the pub regulars when, in a round where all the answers contained the name of a planet, the quizmaster had to read out the names of all the planets before the start of the round, effectively giving everyone a one in nine chance of getting every answer.

Happily, but completely incorrectly, he named Pluto as a planet. And even used it as an answer at one stage, though given his form last night, it was entirely possible he was reading the wrong questions entirely.

Friki Update 2 - The "It's Turned Into A Proper Quiz" Shock

On a further visit to the quiz night, Friki's team were alarmed to discover that a) there were loads more teams there, some actually quite clever and b) the quiz had got really hard (though admittedly this may well have been because there were a lot of geography questions, which Friki sucks at).

Having limped to third place, only recovering thanks to one of the most in-depth knowledge of biscuit brands from the mid-1990's this side of Lionel McVitie, Friki realised that it's team would have to seriously up their game if they ever wanted that sweet sweet not much money and crap wine in the future.

The challenge has been laid down...