About

The Venns believe that local beer is tasty, pubs bring us together like nowhere else can, and learning new things is awesome.

Many years ago, Chella Quint had the idea that a winning pub quiz team might look like a Venn diagram of overlapping areas of expertise.  When she realised that testing this and other theories could justify spending improbable amounts of time in the pub, The Venns was born.

This led to quizzing in the pubs of Sheffield with a cadre of past and current residents (particularly those who had game-show-peppered pasts), to interviews with quizmasters and quizgoers in three countries (and counting), stats gathering, peer review from some clever and patient PhD students and profs, and the whole darn thing  quickly expanded to include a fanzine, actual fans, quizmastering, cross-town and cross-continent inter-pub challenges, comedy performance lectures full of charts and graphs, and invitations to bear witness to the expanding international popularity of the great British pub quiz via twitter, and maybe one day in person (I’m talking to you, Amsterdam).

Quint lives in Sheffield, England, although she is originally from Brooklyn, New York. She does comedy and writes zines about charts and advertising.  She likes attending and setting pub quizzes, enjoying alcohol responsibly, collecting useless trivia, charting graphs, graphing charts, doodling with Sharpies, drinking coffee, and watching too much television.

Chella would like to thank the following awesome Sheffield people and places:  The Rutland Arms, The Uni Arms, The Greystones, The Riverside, Now Then Magazine, Freshmans, Jam Jar Beads, Thornbridge Brewery, Blue Bee Brewery, Rhyme and Reason bookshop, People for Print, Electric Works, The Workstation, The Riverside, Street Food Chef, Yee Kwan Ice Cream, Henderson’s Relish, Joe, Ned, teammates past and present, the quizmasters and quiz teams of Sheffield, England,  field correspondents, and friends.

They’re all part of the Venn.