Saturday saw PlanetWulfagar visiting the Stonor Cricket Club pavilion in an effort to retain our Quiz Night Championship Title... The team roster was a little different this year -- an all Agar showing, with Ash & his parents and li'l ol' non-cricket-trivia-knowing me.
As you may have guessed from the headline, we didn’t quite make it – but, considering we were the smallest team (4 to others’ 5 or even 6!), we were pretty happy with our bronze medal finish. [Strangely, the organisers didn’t listen to our request for a ‘small team’ handicap, or my suggestion of taking each team’s final score & dividing it by the number of team members. Our 50 would’ve become 12.5 to the winning team’s paltry 9.17. Not that I’m bitter...]
What questions helped us to our 50/72 total? Which ones kept us from the top spot? All I can say is thank goodness the Quizmaster has a fondness for American sports – so naming Brett Favre’s team was no problem. A few others:
1) The shortest verse in the Bible, found in the Gospel of John (thank you trivia brain!)
2) Mt Aconcagua is in which country (d’oh... we just missed this one)
3) Which of these cities is the furthest west: Oxford, Portsmouth, or Sheffield?
4) This star is the lead in Michael Clayton
5) Which is the highest grossing film franchise?
6/7) And I’m particularly proud we were able to name the (individual) artists responsible for “Persistence of Memory “(the artist is Spanish) and “Mother and Child Divided” (the piece is in need of repair)
So - not bad... and we’ll get ‘em next year!
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The team expert on Golf (Dad) managed to get the golf question wrong. The team expert on Cricket (me) managed to get 7 out of 8 in his round.
So, are you going to tell us dummies what the answers are, because all I know is the Bret Favre question.
By the way, does "Anonymous" really think he is anonymous?
I think anonymous is just too lazy to type in his name ;-)
As for the answers (though thought you might take a guess at a few first!):
1) Jesus wept (thought you might know that, as it seems to come up in various trivia things I've seen before)
2) Argentina
3) Sheffield
4) George Clooney
5) Harry Potter
6/7) Dali / Damien Hirst
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