Pub quiz mystery.
A pub quizmaster sparked a “massive whodunnit” after he outed a team for cheating on social media but refused to name them. Mark Rackham, who owns the Barking Dog in Urmston, Greater Manchester, said he and colleagues solved “the crime of a century” when they caught the team “cheating red-handed” when they were spotted whispering into their smartwatches to get answers during the competition. The pub owner and landlord shared the news in a social media post but chose not to name the cheating team, which he said had led to massive speculation. “Everyone’s desperate to know who’s done it. I was at a council meeting the next day and people were coming over and asking me about the quiz,” he said. Mr Rackham runs a weekly pub quiz every Wednesday. He said the quiz was supposed to be low-stakes fun but he began losing competitors after the same team won every week. We kept having a repeating team winning and who were getting the obscure answers right,” he said “That then led to us having to put a complete ban on people having their phones out but we’ve never thought we’d have to enforce that because most people enjoy
