Quiz night and free food @ Mothers Ruin

'Drunk for 1 penny, Dead drunk for tuppence, Straw for nothing'

This is the notice which would be seen in London in the 1930s. Gin started out as a cheap medicine, becoming also poor men's drink, with 10 million gallons of gin were being distillated just in the capital. It rendered men impotent and women sterile, and when the government decided to raise the taxes on gin, its sales went underground. Much of the gin was drunk by women, whose children were neglected and daughters sold into prostitution. That is the reason why gin is  commonly called "Mothers Ruin" after all.

A pub located in the heart of Bristol adopted the name and took the dark atmosphere of the Mother's Ruin to convert it into a pub which has live music played around three times a week (80s music, indie and rock n' roll), very cheap drink before 7pm and quiz night on Tuesdays. Established in 2007, the three-level pub has had steady clientele looking for strong cheap drinks, music and fun. Do not expect luxury here, even the smell of the bar is strange. But I have to admit that there is nowhere else like it in Bristol.

The quiz this evening started 9.15pm and 8 groups in total were trying to guess all 10 questions in each round: general knowledge, science, TV and music intro (they normally have "picture" round too, but apparently the printer was not working this time). Each participant has to pay a pound which will be the price for the winners. After two rounds, they had free hot curry for all participants.  We lost, I must say. We were quite pathetic but we said to ourselves we need to improve (actually it's impossible to get less points), but the odds were in favour and we got the chance to win the bonus game (which we did not succeed).

We will train for next time, though. And maybe recruit some other participants for our team. Wanna join?

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Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mothers-Ruin/6965366519

Webpage: http://mothersruinbristol.weebly.com/

Information about Gin taken from: http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Mothers-Ruin/