So you think you're a bit of a music buff right right? You know what year The Strokes formed, the name of Arctic Monkey's drummer and who produced the Foals album. You even get most of the 'intro' rounds on Buzzcocks. Well, oh smart one, now is the time to prove your infinite knowledge.
NME and Blackberry are touring the UK's universities over the next four weeks in a quest to find the country's biggest music nerds. Quizmaster Simon Bird - Will from E4's The Inbetweeners - will be testing the nation's noggins with a range of questions, video and CD clips and picture rounds of fiendish difficulty. The prize for the winning team of five on each night? Five Blackberry smartphones, £500 in Ticketmaster vouchers and 50 MP3s from 7Digital, with spot prizes of t-shirts and CDs up for grabs too.
Head over to NME.com/bigquiz for more details, and totake part in the NME.com music quiz. We've got a Blackberry Storm to give away every week for a month, as well as Ticketmaster vouchers and MP3 downloads for runners up. Forget a round of beer and a bag of pork scratchings down your local, this is the way pub quiz prizes should be.
The new Blackberry Storm, is the smartest of the smartphones. It's smarter than Vampire Weekend's lecturers. It has a built-in media player that can handle all sorts of music formats and can even synchronise with iTunes®. There's also 16GB of storage for music, video and pictures (which can be captured on the 3.2MP built-in camera). Its intuitive touch screen responds instantly to touch and allows you to hook up with friends via any which way but carrier pigeon. Facebook, GPS, instant messaging, email and texting are all a doddle and keep you in the know on the run.
Buy a BlackBerry Storm 5500 smartphone with a free 8GB memory card, from your local Phones4u store. Available on selected tariffs' (£45 and above).
| Sunday | 9th November 2008 | Manchester Metropolitan | MancUnion | 8pm |
| Monday | 10th November 2008 | Glasgow Strathclyde | The Barony Bar | 8pm |
| Tuesday | 11th November 2008 | Newcastle Uni | The Men's Bar | 8pm |
| Thursday | 13th November 2008 | Leeds Uni | The Old Bar | 8pm |
| Sunday | 16th November 2008 | Nottingham Uni | The Venue | 8pm |
| Monday | 17th November 2008 | Uni of Central Lancs, Preston | Source Bar | 7:30pm |
| Tuesday | 18th November 2008 | Hull Uni | Jonny Mac Bar | Doors 8pm, start 9pm |
| Friday | 21st November 2008 | Sheffield Hallam | The HUB | 6pm |
| Sunday | 23rd November 2008 | Leicester De Montfort | Level One | 8pm |
| Tuesday | 25th November 2008 | London UCL | Huntley Street Bar | 8pm |
| Thursday | 27th November 2008 | Reading Uni | Mojo's Bar | 8pm |
| Sunday | 30th November 2008 | Norwich UEA | Blue Bar | Doors 7pm, start 8pm |





