Pub quiz in London: 421 of them, what they cost and when they start

There are 421 pub quizzes running in London in any given week, according to the specialist directory that tracks them, and the striking thing about the list is how little they cost. Entry is a pound at some, three pounds at most, and the outliers charging ten are unusual enough to notice.

A real sample, with the prices

One page of a directory ordered by area, not a ranking. September 2026.

That sample is honest about what it is: the first page of a directory sorted by location rather than a list of the best. It clusters in Greenwich and the Docklands for that reason alone, and there are another 400 across the rest of the city.

What the sample tells you anyway

Greenwich alone can give you a quiz on a Sunday, a Monday and a Tuesday without walking far, which is a genuinely useful thing to know about one riverside neighbourhood. And the price range is narrow: nine of these ten are five pounds or less, and BrewDog at ten is the exception rather than the direction of travel.

The timing catches people out

A quiz is an early evening fixture. Start times cluster between 7pm and 8pm, with the latest here at 9pm, and a quiz runs roughly two hours. That makes it the thing you do before the rest of the evening rather than the thing you do instead of it. Turn up half an hour early: the good ones fill their tables and turn teams away.

What you win

Usually a bar tab, a bottle, or a rolling jackpot that grows each week until somebody takes it. Fifty pounds is a common prize. The money is not the point at a two pound entry, and everybody involved knows it.