Monday
The Monday quiz is a commitment. The people who turn up mean it.
Monday quiz — cash prize
at Walshs of Stoneybatter · 6 Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
Six rounds, general knowledge with a light sports section. Cash prize, teams of up to six. Fills fast — arrive by 19:30 to get a table with a sightline to the board. Also runs Wednesdays for anyone who needs a rematch.
Monday music quiz
at The Crane Bar · 2 Sea Rd, Galway
Music-round format before the upstairs trad session starts. Identify song, artist and decade from a clip. Free entry, teams of five max. The crowd skews local and the music knowledge runs deep — don’t coast on Spotify-era awareness.
Tuesday
The Tuesday quiz is where pubs test formats — looser, more experimental, occasionally chaotic.
Table quiz with picture round
at Toner’s · 139 Lower Baggot St, Dublin 2
Standard table quiz with a picture-round handout at the start — logos, celebrity headshots, Irish landmarks. Six rounds total. One of the few proper mid-week quizzes in the Baggot Street area. W.B. Yeats is said to have been brought here by Gogarty; his opinion on pub quizzes is not recorded.
Wednesday
The biggest quiz night in Ireland. More quizzes run on Wednesdays than any other night — the hump-day circuit runs from Donegal to Cork.
Wednesday quiz — the lane pub
at The Mutton Lane Inn · 3 Mutton Lane, off Patrick St, Cork
Hidden down a lit lane off Patrick Street, pub dates to 1787. Wednesday quiz, teams of four, €5 entry, prize fund. One of the few proper pub quizzes still running in Cork city centre. Fills from 20:00.
Wednesday quiz — Stoneybatter
at Walshs of Stoneybatter · 6 Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
Same format as Monday — six rounds, cash prize, teams of up to six. Wednesday draws a slightly larger crowd. Arrive by 19:45.
Captain’s call quiz
at MacCarthy’s Bar · Castletownbere, Cork
Six rounds, team captain runs to the bar between rounds to hand in answers. The captain’s call format is most alive west of the Shannon and MacCarthy’s is its heartland. Bring four, a fifth costs you a pint.
The Grave Diggers quiz
at John Kavanagh’s · 1 Prospect Square, Glasnevin, Dublin
Wednesday quiz in one of Dublin’s most historically resonant pubs — established 1833, backing onto Glasnevin Cemetery. General knowledge, seven rounds, cash prize. Get there early; the Wednesday quiz fills the front bar completely.
Thursday
Thursday quizzes have the energy of a Friday without the commitment. The crowd shows up to win.
Thursday quiz — Limerick city
at Nancy Blake’s · Upper Denmark St, Limerick
General knowledge with an Irish current-affairs round that separates locals from visitors. Teams of two to six, €3 entry, prize fund. The trad session runs Sunday afternoons in the same beer garden — the Thursday quiz crowd and Sunday session crowd have essentially no overlap.
Thursday table quiz — Galway
at The Skeff Bar · Eyre Square, Galway
Six rounds, picture round at the start, answer sheet in at the end. Eyre Square location makes it accessible from most of the city. Teams of four maximum — the Skeff quiz is competitive and the tables are small.
Quiz formats — what to expect
Team captain runs to the bar with the answer sheet between rounds. Theatrical, popular west of the Shannon. The run is part of the game.
Sheet at every table, hand it in at the end. Most common format. The picture round is usually what costs you first place.
Identify song, artist and decade from a clip. Pub PA quality varies. The decade round is always wrong.
Prize rolls over each week until someone wins. Creates genuine tension after a few weeks of rollover. One sudden-death question at the end.
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