pub quiz
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3.6
- noun
- /pʌb kwɪz/
- UK
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trivia en el pub
- Every Thursday night, our local bar hosts a pub quiz where teams compete for fun prizes.
I have a pub quiz in like a few hours so I really hope this makeup looks good.
- I have a pub quiz in like a few hours so I really hope this makeup looks good.
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At the very least, I shared what's easily the best pub quiz in Princeton with my over-21 undergrad friends at the D-Bar.
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I made the rounds to various pub quizzes before stumbling on Geeks Who Drink two years ago, and I have never gone back.
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I have a pub quiz in like a few hours so I really hope this makeup looks good.
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If I miss Pilates, if I miss the pub quiz, I will fight.
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We are starting it off by a little pub quiz that Holly's organized in the office.
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So Paul Cena used to play on my pub quiz team in Oxford before I lived in Oxford.
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Dickens used to play it years ago, some kind of prehistoric pub quiz.
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I think there's, there's a slightly different feel between maybe trivia in North America and a pub quiz in the UK in that.
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I have not yet regretted my decision and now we're doing a pub quiz courtesy of Holly and she's just marking up the answers.
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So, the only really exciting things on the horizon this week are the pub quiz on Wednesday as usual (naturally) and the start of Oldenburg Weihnachtsmarkt!
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Synonyms
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1.3
A short test with a few questions that students take in class
How Competitive
- UK
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3.6
8
1.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an informal competition held in a pub' is directly derivable from combining 'pub' (a place serving drinks) with 'quiz' (a question-based contest); the modifier indicates the setting. This straightforward noun+noun composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Pub quiz is very literal: people meet in a pub and answer quiz questions together for fun. Picture small teams at tables with pens and drinks trying to guess answers — that's why it means 'an informal competition in a pub'.