As far as we’re aware, quizzes are not a good topic for films (Starter for Ten is the only good quiz-based movie we can think of) but films are a good topic for quizzes.

Team Shopper decided to pit our wits against the student-heavy crowd at Deptford Film Club’s quiz at the Amersham Arms in New Cross.

If we could compete on film knowledge against young guns from the establishment that turfed out cinematic visionaries such as Fifty Shades director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Oscar winner Steve McQueen then we would be doing very well indeed.

It’s a monthly gig on a Monday night - usually starts around 7.30pm according to the e-mail we had from the pub confirming our table - and we assembled a strong team of four guys and three ladies who dashed for the train the second our deadlines were met.

News Shopper: The Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, New Cross

Q1: Is the quiz still on?

Being in Goldsmiths territory at half term - when students traditionally take their piles of washing home  – we were apprehensive that it may have been a wasted journey.

But the quiz was listed on the pub’s website, we had an e-mail confirming it and a nice member of staff assured us it was all go when we arrived.

We duly ordered dinner and drinks and took a seat.

Half an hour later, having consumed disintegrating burgers off prison trays with plastic cutlery, there was still no sign of a quiz. Or the football on TV.

News Shopper:

Team Shopper got fed up of waiting

Q2: When is the quiz?

It’s happening shortly, we were told.

After another round (of drinks, not questions) we asked again.

“It’ll be about half eight.”

Half past eight came and went.

“Yeah, it’s on. They’re not here yet but they should be soon.”

And then at about 9.15pm, a very polite barmaid (they were all polite, it’s a good pub) came round:

“Are you guys here for the quiz?”

There was no quiz, she said. There had been a mix up.

So there we were, quizzless.

We can’t, in all honesty, recommend the film quiz at the Amersham Arms because, having travelled half an hour on the train on the least convenient night of the week, we didn’t find a quiz.

The pub’s OK, though. If only someone had been bothered to call the quiz people to find out why they were running so late, rather than just take our money.

And we bloody missed Broadchurch.

Q3: When is a quiz not a quiz?

To stop the boredom from consuming us while we waited, and to give our brains at least some of the workout they were prepared for, Team Shopper hosted its own mini quiz with questions hastily snatched from the internet and presented by Bamber Gascoigne’s finally-uncovered heir, news editor Dan Keel.

It filled a void in our lives, so why not test yourself too?

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TEST YOURSELF (on our quiz):

1.Between which two places was the first railway line built

2.Add up all the spots on a pair of dice, what’s the sum?

3.What nerve links the brain to the eye?

4.What year did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?

5.What is the more common name of the patella?

6.Zero Dark Thirty was about the hunt to find who?

7.Louis I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship is the last line of which film?

8.Who was the first person to refuse an Oscar?

9.Name three films in which Lindsay Lohan plays multiple characters...


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ANSWERS

Darlington and Stockton 2. 42 3. The Optic Nerve 4. 1933 5. Kneecap 6. Osama Bin Laden 7. Casablanca 8. George C Scott (for Patton in 1970) 9. The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, I Know Who Killed Me.