QuizList

Two postings this week:  scroll down.
Next posting on or before Saturday 10 July – I’m away.

Yes, it’s happened.  The worst quiz of the year, so far.

Our hopes weren’t high because we saw a picture round;  however, there were four other rounds with a token prize for the highest score in each and an overall prize for the quiz.  Plus a jackpot if you got 90% of the answers right in the whole quiz.  The pub was somewhat dark and at one stage during the night one man brought the pix over to one of the few lights, which happened to be at the QM’s table.  She had been outside smoking but ran in to confront him, allegedly under the impression that he had been trying to look at the answers. 

Second round:  lyrics from No 1 songs of the Noughties – everyone in the pub (there weren’t many but the ages were mixed) became very vocal about how hard these were.  The (female) QM insisted that they were easy as she knew them all;  she then decided to disregard the round.

Third round:  World Cup stuff.  We got 11/12, only missing what animal the accursed mascot was (a leopard).  We were told, however, that we had been beaten by one point and the neighbouring team got a box of chocolates. The QM said that she did not give out scores as some teams were embarrassed to hear their low scores.

Fourth round:  Computers.  Shucks, beaten by one point again.

Fifth round:  General Knowledge.  We won that one, mirabile dictu, and got a bottle of wine.

Sixth round:  TV theme tunes.  Inaudible ones.  What?  Beaten by one point?  You don’t surprise me.

 Later the team who had won the first round and indeed the whole quiz (we don’t know the scores as they weren’t revealed) were talking about the questions in Round 1, which they had allegedly won, and NC said ‘Well, at least you knew the leopard.’  ‘No, we didn’t', said the team member, ‘and we weren’t able to name all of the Asian teams in the final’.  The QM was still sitting beside us and we politely raised this with her;  she said something to the effect of  ‘Well, you see, that team win a lot and people accuse me of fixing the results, and you are doing it again’ and scuttled off, bearing the quiz sheets with her so no checking could be done. 

Never again.  Never, never again. As a general rule scores should always be given out and that is not too much to ask.

Anyway, enjoy the second post this week, don’t get upset at the political incorrectness, people were being a bit sarcastic, and if you can do better, write a profile for me…