Breamore quiz master compiles book for the NHS
Anthony Swift has put together his quizzes to raise some money for charity
Anthony normally runs the weekly pub quiz at the Horse and Groom pub in Woodgreen and during the lockdowns took them online so teams could keep playing.
He's now compiled his questions from March to July 2020 into a book so we can play along at home.
The proceeds from the book sales will also go to the Stars Appeal at Salisbury District Hospital and the Bournemouth Hospital Charity.
Anthony's told us the online quizzes used to pause for the Thursday 'Clap for Carers' each week, so it made sense to support the NHS:
"The pressure that people in those hospitals have been working under for the last several months, their commitment to it has been astonishing. If we can sell a few books and give a little back that way, I'd be pleased to help."
The book includes 30 quizzes, each with four rounds of 10 questions.
Topics range from general knowledge, to some with connections, and topical ones from the week the quiz was produced.
Anthony says the book is a bit like a diary of 2020 too:
"I've basically captured some news headlines from each day I set the quiz and some newspaper cartoons, so when you read through it, it's a little bit of a piece of history from that extraordinary period."
The book's available from the Woodgreen Village Shop, the Horse and Groom pub in Woodgreen, the Bat and Ball pub in Breamore and the Fordingbridge Bookshop.
You can also get a copy by emailing Anthony on amgswift@gmail.com and he'll post it out.
The suggested donation is £15, plus £5 postage and packing if it's being sent out.
You don't need to be a pub quiz expert to make the most of it either, as Anthony explains:
"What I try to do with these quizzes is that it's not just a case of knowing the answer or not - although obviously that helps. What I try to do is to frame the questions in such a way that a team can have a conversation about it and maybe come up with an intelligent guess, even if they don't know the answer."