The PGA Pub Quiz, held at UBSA on 14 July, rejected the traditional pub quiz format for a more interactive, tension-building model.

If you remember daytime quiz-show classic 'Wipe Out' from the mid-90s, hosted by Bob Monkhouse, you'll get the idea: rounds with a theme, and one wrong answer and you lose every point in that round. In this case you had to choose 11 people, events or things that fitted the round's theme (9 would not fit) - people who were assassinated, bodies of water, English castles, Winter Olympic venues, etc. The most important difference from Wipe Out is that these questions were actually hard.

Six teams competed for a first prize of £25 and second prize of £20. The winning team was 'Quiz Team Aguilera', the runners-up were the obscurely-named 'Kimbo's Folly' and the special prize (a giant space hopper from the Science Museum shop) for the best name went to 'Scrambled Eggheads'.

Many thanks to PhD Computing researcher Ali Abdul Rahman for providing the format, set-up equipment and for presenting it with effortless quiz-show host charm.

We're planning to run future pub quizzes, with the next hopefully over the summer, so if you've got any thoughts on the quiz or how it might be improved please let us know at postgrads@bath.ac.uk.