Pub quiz near me: how to actually find one

Finding a pub quiz near you is weirdly harder than it should be. Most quizzes aren't listed anywhere official, pubs forget to update their websites, and the roundups you find on page one are often years out of date. Here's where our own verified guides cover, and the search methods that actually work when your town isn't one of them.

Our city guides

Every venue in these is checked against the pub's own website or social page before it goes in, with a source link on each entry. Quiz nights change, so call ahead regardless.

UK and Ireland

• Pub quiz in London
• Pub quiz in Manchester
• Pub quiz in Birmingham
• Pub quiz in Glasgow
• Pub quiz in Edinburgh
• Pub quiz in Leeds
• Pub quiz in Liverpool
• Pub quiz in Bristol
• Pub quiz in Dublin

Europe (English-language quizzes)

• Pub quiz in Amsterdam
• Pub quiz in Berlin
• Pub quiz in Barcelona
• Pub quiz in Madrid
• Pub quiz in Prague
• Pub quiz in Vienna
• Pub quiz in Frankfurt
• Pub quiz in Zurich
• Pub quiz in Zug

If your town isn't on the list

Use Google Maps, not Google

This is the one that surprises people. Searching the web for "pub quiz near me" gets you listicles about other cities. Searching Maps for "pub quiz" or "quiz night" searches the text of recent reviews and posts, which is exactly where quiz nights get mentioned. Someone writing "great Tuesday quiz, we come every week" in a review is a far better signal than a pub's neglected events page.

Zoom the map to your actual area first, then search. Maps weights results to whatever is in view.

Facebook is where quizzes actually live

Most pub quizzes are promoted on Facebook and nowhere else, because that's where the regulars are. Two things worth trying:

Search Facebook for "quiz" and filter to Events, with your location set. This catches the pubs that bother creating an event each week.

Then check the Facebook pages of the five or six pubs nearest you directly. A pub that runs a weekly quiz will almost always have posted about it in the last fortnight, even if their website hasn't been touched since 2019.

Just ask the pub

Obvious, but it works, and it's quicker than any of the above. Message a pub's Facebook page or ring them around 3pm when they're quiet but open. Landlords are happy to tell you, and they'll often point you at other quizzes locally if they don't run one themselves. They know their competition's schedule better than any website does.

Local Facebook groups and subreddits

Your town's "what's on" Facebook group or subreddit will have someone asking this exact question, usually a few times a year. Search within the group before posting. If you do post, you'll normally get answers within the day, and they'll be current in a way no listing site manages.

What to expect when you get there

Most UK quizzes run to a similar shape. Six to eight rounds of ten, a picture round handed out on paper, a music round, and a break halfway for the bar. Entry is typically free to about £3 a head, with the money going into the prize pot. Prizes run from a bar tab to a bottle of something to, occasionally, a rolling cash jackpot.

Teams are usually capped between four and six. If you turn up with eight people you'll be asked to split, which is more fun anyway.

Phones are banned, and most hosts will say so repeatedly. Some quizzes now run the opposite way, with teams answering on their phones through a scoring app, so check which kind you're walking into if it matters to you.

Which night to go

Tuesday and Wednesday dominate. Pubs schedule quizzes on nights that would otherwise be dead, so Monday to Thursday is where nearly everything sits. Sunday quizzes are a small but real category, often slower and more relaxed. A Friday or Saturday quiz is rare, because a busy pub doesn't need one.

If you're picking a regular, Tuesday tends to have the most committed teams and Monday the most casual.

Thinking of running one instead?

Plenty of people end up here because their local doesn't have a quiz and they're wondering how much work it'd be. Less than you'd think, honestly. The questions are the easy part: our general knowledge quiz questions and 50 best pub quiz questions are free to read and free to steal from, and how to run a great pub quiz covers the pacing and scoring that actually decide whether a night works.

The admin is the bit that puts people off, which is what our pub quiz maker is for: it builds the slides, the printable answer sheets and the scoring out of the questions you type, so you're not maintaining three documents that have to agree with each other.