Editing Pub quiz (section)

== History ==
The origins of the pub quiz are relatively unknown. 

In 1946, a night in Yorkshire is mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garcia |first=Francisco |date=2023-06-12 |title='You can't argue against a computer': has the pub quiz lost its soul? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/12/you-cant-argue-against-a-computer-has-the-pub-quiz-lost-its-soul |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In the late-1950s in Merseyside and Lancashire, "about 4,000 people became involved in the organised quiz leagues that sprang up from Bootle to Southport".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garcia |first=Francisco |date=2023-06-12 |title='You can't argue against a computer': has the pub quiz lost its soul? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/12/you-cant-argue-against-a-computer-has-the-pub-quiz-lost-its-soul |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

On 30 October 1963, The [[Liverpool Echo]] carried an interview with Jack Robinson, "on the Merseyside quiz scene since it started".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garcia |first=Francisco |date=2023-06-12 |title='You can't argue against a computer': has the pub quiz lost its soul? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/12/you-cant-argue-against-a-computer-has-the-pub-quiz-lost-its-soul |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In 1976, [[Burns and Porter|Sharon Burns and Tom Porter]] founded and organised 32 pub quiz teams in three leagues in southern England.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Devine |first1=Marion |year=1988 |title=Who is the woman behind all those pub competitions |journal=Director Magazine |issue= February 1988}}</ref> The goal was to attract people to pubs on quieter, “off” nights.{{cn|date=January 2024}} From the time Burns and Porter began their weekly quiz in the 1970s, popularity grew over the next few years from just 30 teams to 10,000 teams in their weekly events.<ref name="Pub challenge"/>