{"id":3981,"date":"2026-03-05T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:39:20","slug":"the-joe-friday-pub-quiz-week-493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: week 493"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: week 493\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Website-Image-3-Images-3.png?height=573&amp;width=1024\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>Happy Quizzing! <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>This week&#8217;s quiz intro must begin with an apology: last week, I wrote all about what I hoped would be the start of a new heatwave, only for the skies to have fully clouded over by the time it reached you! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Fortunately, nature has been forgiving, and the sun has made a serious return, shining all week. Lesson learned, I&#8217;ll steer clear of predicting the future from now on. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>To make up for that misplaced optimism, this week\u2019s intro is short and sweet. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>In just a few days time, the 2026 Cheltenham Festival begins and, in its honour, we&#8217;ve dedicated a full quizzing special round. The other is on hit BBC show Peaky Blinders, just in time for the franchise&#8217;s first feature film arriving on screens later this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>So, without much further ado, <strong>LET&#8217;S QUIZ&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p><strong>Cheltenham Free To Play Predictor: Receive \u00a35 free bet each day and win share of \u00a31,000 jackpot!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Playing JOE x BOYLE Sports&#8217; Free To Play Predictor game for the Cheltenham Festival is simple &#8211; we\u2019ve picked out one horse running in each of the first five races every day of Cheltenham, and all you need to do is decide if it will Win, Place or finish Unplaced!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator my-6 border-0 border-t border-[#7D7D7D] \"\/><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#JOE #Friday #Pub #Quiz #week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Quizzing! This week&#8217;s quiz intro must begin with an apology: last week, I wrote all about what I hoped would be the start of a new heatwave, only for the skies to have fully clouded over by the time it reached you! Fortunately, nature has been forgiving, and the sun has made a serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1206,1418,719,1723,1725,1726,1620,1422,1724,2661,256],"class_list":{"0":"post-3981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-friday","11":"tag-general-knowledge","12":"tag-joe","13":"tag-pub","14":"tag-quiz","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-the-joe-friday-pub-quiz","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}