History
Origins of the pub quiz are unclear but there is little evidence of them existing before 1970 in the United Kingdom.
A 2009 study put the number of regular weekly pub quizzes in the UK at 22,445, and one website has counted approximately 2,000 regular weekly quizzes in the United States.
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