Pub quiz in Bristol: where to play

This is the most ambitious quiz format in the city. The same quiz runs simultaneously at the Mothers' Ruin on St Nicholas Street, The Crown, The Colosseum and the Greyhound in Fishponds, and a single winning team takes the combined pot from all four. There's a separate bonus game with £250 on it. The pubs themselves say it books up most weeks, so turning up on spec on a Tuesday is a gamble.

A pub, microbrewery and kitchen brewing its own unpasteurised beer on site, with rounds covering music, sport, geography and general knowledge. Worth knowing that this was Brewhouse & Kitchen until recently, so older listings elsewhere still use the old name and give a 7:30pm start. The current start time is 8pm.

A big traditional pub on the Gloucester Road strip, reopened after a refurbishment in late 2024, with a good range of local ciders and real ales and a patio garden. The quiz details come from the venue's managed listing rather than its own website, and there are two conflicting entries for it online, so the 7:30pm start is the one to go by.

A harbourside pub with its own microbrewery, where the quiz follows on from Sunday roasts served until 8pm. These details come from the venue's managed listing rather than its own site, and older write-ups elsewhere quote a different team size and prize, so treat anything you read about a £100 tab with caution.

An après-ski themed bar on the harbourside, complete with steins, pizzas and music between rounds. It's deliberately not a traditional quiz: answers go in on your phone and the format is built to be loud. You can play solo or as a table. Prize details on their site appear to be shared across their other venues, so don't count on a specific one.

A classic two-room pub near the top of Whiteladies Road, with two real fires, up to six cask ales and a sheltered beer garden. We couldn't find a website for the pub itself, so the quiz is listed here on the strength of a CAMRA entry surveyed in person in early 2026 rather than the venue's own listing.

A North Street fixture for over 200 years, with a refurbishment that uncovered the old George's Brewery lettering on the front, five rotating beers from local independents and a big walled garden with a heated marquee. As with the Port of Call, the quiz comes from a CAMRA listing rather than the pub's own page, and while the Tuesday slot is well established the start time we could find traces back several years, so check before you set off.