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Article: So just how sad is your life?(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 7, 1999
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You can't get a job as a London cab driver unless you've mastered The Knowledge. Likewise, you won't get far in your local pub quiz without The General Knowledge. The trick is not to know more useless facts than anyone else, it's knowing what kind of useless facts you'll be asked to remember.
Degree-level history or politics won't help you. Don't even bother trying to make friends with Professors of Chemistry and asking them to join your quiz team. They are useless in this situation.
Pub quizzes are like IQ tests - the more you do, the easier they get. ...