The establishment’s name may have recently become The New Anglers, but current landlord Richard Billard has kept everything reassuringly old-fashioned, including the format of the quiz.<\/p>\n
Like prime ministers, Phil has seen four long-term publicans oversee his work.<\/p>\n
“Ten general knowledge questions and 11 music ones. Simple,” he says.<\/p>\n
The music round has evolved over time, from cassettes to CDs and now his old Nokia 301 phone connected to the speaker system.<\/p>\n
Many of the regulars have been taking part in the quiz for as long as Phil has been hosting. They cheer and groan in equal measure when he reels off some of the catchphrases he’s developed over the years. <\/p>\n
If something goes wrong, a question is fluffed or the music skips, Phil will shout: “Do bear with me ladies and gentleman, this is a live show” – to loud jeers from the room.<\/p>\n
He has his quirks, such as trying to trick participants into thinking the answer is connected to the number of questions. They don’t fall for it, rolling their eyes and groaning – a cue for Phil to break into a rendition of the song If You Don’t Know Me By Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The establishment’s name may have recently become The New Anglers, but current landlord Richard Billard has kept everything…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114855385730951182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}