Date – 13 November, 2004 – Me “Hey – look – the Greyhound pub only 19 paces from our front door, has a quiz night every Monday. We should totally go!”
Ashley “Great – I love pub quizzes. And after all, it is only 19 paces from our flat…”
Date – 25 April, 2006 – Me “Hi there my good publican – we’re here for our first quiz night. Anything we should know?”…
Yes, after 17 months of living less than 20 steps from our local pub, the Greyhound, we FINALLY made it to a quiz night… and had a blast. (thanks to Harbottle for the pic, though I disagree with the review)
Despite being a mini-team of only 2 (most teams, including the winning one, were of 4, or at least 3) – Planet Wulfagar not only came in THIRD overall, but we also a) won the first ‘spot prize’ (basically a raffle draw, as the questions are along the line of “What colour is a New York taxi” and “How many legs does an octopus have” – correct answers go in a draw) AND shared the ‘Interval Prize’ – which was to have the best story of what happened to us in the past 2 weeks.
(We stretched the truth a leeeetle bit on that one, saying we’d got engaged. But – and what are the chances – SO HAD ANOTHER WOMAN IN THE GAME! So – and here’s the embarrassing part – they made us ARMWRESTLE for the prize. And I’m even more embarrassed to admit I was, sniff, unsuccessful. I knew I should’ve made her do it left-handed.)
By coming in 3rd, we went into a run-off for the cash prize roll-over with the top 2 other teams. However – none of us were successful in answering all 3 finalist questions, so the roll-over continues… I can’t wait to go back & try again!! (Though the next one is the day we get back from LA – not sure how sharp we’ll be…)
SO – how well would you do? Here’s a selection of questions from the night – no cheating by using that interwebby thingy…
- What colour is a female blackbird?
- What does LASER stand for?
- What year did ‘old age pensioners’ start?
- Who was the first professional cricket captain?
- Name one of the 2 poets who had a first line of a poem saying “Come live with me and be my love” (I knew that English degree would come in handy!)
- What country has had the most recorded shark attacks? (one half of Planet Wulfagar had the correct answer on this, but listened to the other half, who was convinced he was right. He wasn’t.)
Answers on a postcard - or comment below!
4 comments:
Wow, that was hard. I didn't know any answers, because I am assuming that a female blackbird isn't black!
Other than that, the questions were way too British for this Yank.
Mom
Yep - you're right, a female blackbird is brown. We got this right, but did wonder if it was a double-trick (that is - you'd assume from the question that it was a trick and therefore not black, but what if that was the trick, and in fact it is indeed black. Luckily we guessed right!)
this is a test of name...
OK, I am checking how to not be anonymous.
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