Urban Street Golf at Gravity Social in Northampton

A look at the Urban Street Golf course at Gravity Social in Northampton.

We recently visited the Urban Street Golf course at Gravity Social at Sol Central in Northampton on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The 9-hole indoor course was the 1,019th visited on our travels.

We didn't play the course, but in a first on our adventures we did win the pub quiz at the venue that evening!

Check out the Gravity Social website for more information.

Spot the odd one out...

Can you spot the odd one out?

- Top: Pyramids on the Crazy Golf course at Manor Park in Glossop, Derbyshire.

- Bottom left: The Stockport Pyramid.

- Bottom right: The pyramid hole on the old Crazy Golf course at Greens in Padstow, Cornwall.

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Minigolf quiz - Where in the world did we see this Crazy Golf sign?

Where in the world did we see this Crazy Golf course sign on our travels? (country and town)

For a bonus point do you know what "giamocs" means? It's not as obvious as you think!

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Pub quizzes during lockdown

Have you played a virtual pub quiz during lockdown?

Is anyone else missing that Friday feeling at their local as we all stay home?🍺🍻

Are any Stockport pubs hosting online pub quizzes? @TheVirtualPubQ1 are hosting an online pub quiz tomorrow evening: https://t.co/xA1JVtPqpy

📸@putting_gott pic.twitter.com/F762opT4rc

— Stockport Council (@StockportMBC) May 1, 2020

Our local The Micker Brook in Cheadle Hulme has been running a weekly online quiz with the excellent Mike Prince since lockdown began.

The Micker Brook in Cheadle Hulme

It's brilliant fun.

I've been taking snaps of the pubs of Stockport I pass while out on my daily exercise. You can see more on my Instagram.

Guess the Crazy Golf course location?

Guess the minigolf course location...

(If you were allowed out) where would you find this Crazy Golf course?

Clue: It's not in Brazil

On The Chase. Again

My episode of The Chase is going to be on Challenge TV again.

Series 5, episode 16 is scheduled to be on at:

8pm today, Monday 17th February.

9am on Tuesday 18th February.

1am on Wednesday 19th February.

The Chase

My episode of The Chase was on Pick at 5pm on Saturday, 28th December 2019. Did you catch it?

The episode was listed as Series 5, Episode 16. My episode has also previously been listed as Series 5, Episode 39.

It was recorded back in 2011 and aired on ITV in March 2012. Since then it's aired multiple times on ITV and Challenge TV. To my knowledge this was the first time it'd been on Pick.

This was almost a decade ago now!

I wonder when and where it'll be shown next...?

The Chase is on. Again. Possibly

It's possible my episode of The Chase will be on Pick at 5pm this Saturday, 28th December.

Facing The Beast

That's if the episode number hasn't been changed again.

The episode scheduled is listed as Series 5, Episode 16.

My episode has been listed as that before. As well as Series 5, Episode 39.

Shambles

Watch me on The Chase

I've been reliably informed that my episode of The Chase is being repeated on Challenge next Tuesday, 2nd April. It's one day late if you ask me!

You can watch my appearance on The Chase at 8pm on Tuesday 2nd April. It's repeated again at 1am on the 3rd

I was a contestant on Series 5, Episode 39 of the long-running ITV quiz show. The episode was filmed in 2011 and aired in March 2012.

Related blog posts:
- Appearing on ITV's The Chase!
- The Chase

Winning the Bronze Medal at the Oswestry Games "Oslympics Open Quiz"

British Minigolf Association Team finishes in third-place at Oslympic Sports Quiz at Oswestry Cricket Club..

On Friday 13th July Emily and I headed to Oswestry Cricket Club which was to be the host for the Oswestry Games’ “Oslympics Open Quiz” event.

With five players in town ready for the weekend’s Minigolf action we split into two teams – with me, Emily and Marc ‘The Force’ Chapman making up the BMGA team of the ‘Crazy Minigolfers’ while Ruth Burke (who would later join our team) and Steve Sturdy were joined by some family members to make up another team.

After twelve intense rounds of sports and Olympic-themed questions the Crazy Minigolfers were announced as Oslympic Bronze Medal winners and were asked to take their place on the podium to receive their medals and bottles of Station Bitter from the event sponsors Stonehouse Brewery!

The Crazy Minigolfers on the podium! Photo by Steve Sturdy

The Oslympics Quiz winners were Team Drink GB, with the team of JT was Innocent in second-place.

Our Oslympics Quiz Prizes - Stonehouse Brewery's Station Bitter and Oswestry Games Bronze Medal

The quiz was a great event and a nice start to a brilliant weekend in Oswestry. Many thanks to the Oswestry Games organising committee, Oswestry Cricket Club, Stonehouse Brewery and Quizmaster for the night, BBC Radio Shropshire’s James Bond!

Links:

- British Minigolf Association (BMGA)

- Oswestry Games

- Oswestry Cricket Club

- Stonehouse Brewery

- BBC Radio Shropshire

Appearing on ITV's The Chase!

‘Today’ I faced one of the finest quiz brains in the UK as I appeared on hit ITV quiz show ‘The Chase’!

The programme sees four strangers teaming up to take on a Chaser in a general knowledge quiz, firstly as individuals and then, if they qualify, in the Final Chase.

On the show, filmed last year, I was up against quiz supremo Mark Labbett and in the Cash-Builder round only managed to answer one question correctly out of nine in one minute of quick fire questions. I was like a deer caught in the headlights!

In the head-to-head chase itself I was offered either a measly £4 to take a step closer to safety, or £20,000 to take a riskier step forward. After a chat with my team mates I opted to play for the £1,000 and managed to answer three questions out of seven before being caught two steps from home. It must have been the pressure of appearing in front of a ‘studio audience’.

The four questions (out of 16) that I answered correctly were:

- What food-related nickname is given to the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London

o Answer: Beefeaters

- In punctuation, which character is also known as an ‘interrogation point’?

o Answer: C) Question Mark

- What name is given to the narrow, cobbled street in York’s city centre?

o Answer: C) The Shambles

- Which actress played the leader of the Pink Ladies in the film ‘Grease 2’?

o Answer: C) Michelle Pfeiffer

The Chaser and I both got the question “What is a bluebonnet?” wrong. It’s a Plant, not a Fungus.

Another team mate, Alison, was also eliminated from the game which left two players, Anne and Glyn, to play for £10,000. They took on the Chaser with an 18 step head start after correctly answering 16 questions, plus their ‘bonus’ two step head start.

The Chase is hosted by comic and actor Bradley Walsh and is now in its fifth series. Thousands of people apply to appear on the show each year. I was on number 39 of a series that will be over 100 shows long.

For the next month you can still catch the show on the ITV Player online.

In 2009 I also appeared on BBC2’s quiz show Eggheads, when I led a team of Minigolfers known as the ‘Nutters with Putters’. Our team played for £18,000 but unfortunately lost in the final head-to-head game.

Of the two shows I found The Chase to be much tougher as you’re really put on the spot with the quick fire questions.

Who knows what show I’ll go on next – Climbing for Dollars perhaps... and with TV quiz shows getting repeated over the years maybe I'll win in a re-run!

Links:

- ITV

- ITV – The Chase

- The Chase on Wikipedia

- Eggheads Blog Posts

The Chase

Set your videos, TiVo, Sky+, Betamax, V2000 etc. and tune in to ITV today (Friday 2nd March) at 5pm as I'm going to be on the quiz show 'The Chase'!!!

Secret Garden Adventure Golf at the Springfields Shopping Village in Spalding

The final course we played on the 21st May 2011 was the Secret Garden Golf at Springfields Shopping Village in Spalding, Lincolnshire.

The course was the 243rd played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up I defeated Emily 25-27.

The course was the first we have ever played that also includes a Quiz!

On each hole there is a different question that tests you on your knowledge of the surroundings you are playing in.

Needless to say, Emily and I scored 9 out of 9 on the Quiz :-)

Update May 2015: On our drive to Skegness we noticed that the minigolf course at Springfields Shopping Village is now called 'Jurassic Golf'. Check out the Springfields website for more information.

Link:
- Springfields Shopping Village

Related blog posts:
- List of courses visited and played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast

Thanet Ladies Auxiliary Quiz Night 2008

Results from the Thanet Ladies Auxiliary Quiz Night in Margate, Kent.



13.09.08
Nayland Hotel, Margate

1st of 13 teams - Ursa Major (BMGA Team 1)
Brad
Alan
Gareth
Chris
Lionel
Ted/John

10th of 13 teams - Just made the cut except Emily (BMGA Team 2)
Richard
Steve
Jam
Rob
Mark
Emily

Other results:
Irish (Latvian) Bingo - Gareth Holmes 4th Place (5 non-sanctioned Ranking Points)
The Raffle - Ted/John McIver - £10 (handed back)
The Raffle - Mark Swain - The Horse Painting (swapped with Richard for a bottle of Wine)
The Raffle - Richard Gottfried - Bottle of Wine (swapped with Mark for the Horse Painting)
The Raffle - Gareth Holmes - Photo Albums
The Raffle - Ted/John McIver - Bottle of Wine