This post's title is in honour of this week's Inquisitor, Campanologist's John's, Scottish roots. Its time for another round of the highly addictive
Meakins Cricket Club Quiz
I was met with a bunch of complaints from, from various quizzers, apparently unhappy at the brevity (ie complete lack) of last weeks report. So here I am at midnight slaving away when I ought to be sleeping. All this pressure to write. I feel just like JK Rowling! This may also result in a bout of overwritten melodrama!
John's quizzes are always interesting and challenging (I prefer dull and easy quizzes). Two rounds were Trivia Trails, with each answer starting with the last letter of the preceding one. This is always a tricky round with the potential if you get one question wrong it throws you off all the others. We did well on these rounds getting 8/10 and 10/10 respectively. Other rounds included guessing the connection between 5 film actresses and finding the year connecting 10 answers. These year was 1959. They never seem to have years from the 3 non Blonde's lifetime's, with us being the youngest team (even with me). Whats wrong with the eighties and nineties! There was also a round where we had to name the 5 post war Democrat Presidents, and the last 5 league champions outside the current top 4 Premiership teams. We should have been able to relax, but Vicky and Debs were still driving each other mad over the answer to which zodiac sign comes between Libra and Leo? My thoughts that it was Romulus was sadly wrong.
The first half scores came in. The Muppets 36, The Campanologists 41, Three non Blondes 45 and Sixth Sense 50......Time to eat.....and present Vicky's Dad a birthday cake, and a woeful "Happy Birthday"
I was met with a bunch of complaints from, from various quizzers, apparently unhappy at the brevity (ie complete lack) of last weeks report. So here I am at midnight slaving away when I ought to be sleeping. All this pressure to write. I feel just like JK Rowling! This may also result in a bout of overwritten melodrama!
John's quizzes are always interesting and challenging (I prefer dull and easy quizzes). Two rounds were Trivia Trails, with each answer starting with the last letter of the preceding one. This is always a tricky round with the potential if you get one question wrong it throws you off all the others. We did well on these rounds getting 8/10 and 10/10 respectively. Other rounds included guessing the connection between 5 film actresses and finding the year connecting 10 answers. These year was 1959. They never seem to have years from the 3 non Blonde's lifetime's, with us being the youngest team (even with me). Whats wrong with the eighties and nineties! There was also a round where we had to name the 5 post war Democrat Presidents, and the last 5 league champions outside the current top 4 Premiership teams. We should have been able to relax, but Vicky and Debs were still driving each other mad over the answer to which zodiac sign comes between Libra and Leo? My thoughts that it was Romulus was sadly wrong.
The first half scores came in. The Muppets 36, The Campanologists 41, Three non Blondes 45 and Sixth Sense 50......Time to eat.....and present Vicky's Dad a birthday cake, and a woeful "Happy Birthday"
By the start of the second half we had completed our throwouts which involved multi choice questions, which each gave a letter to an anagrams of two famous people. Sounds complicated...and it is. We were confident we had them all correct, but suspected all our rivals did too. This would mean everything was riding on the second half arranged around a Bingo card. This is so complicated to explain in a post, but I will try. Each team has a different 5x5 bingo card with random numbers 1 to 25 (Duh! like a bingo card then). Anyway when the answers are read out in a random fashion the first team to get a line of 5 correct answers wins a bonus whole 5 points (count them!)...and..How many points were we behind the SixthSense...5! We were in with a chance if we could just get the line first.
Due to Johns efficiency each answer sheet had a carbon copy so as we marked the SixthSense's answers we could check off our own. As each answer was read out we were matching them blow for blow. Both teams pretty soon had 4 out of 5 in a line, needing only 1 more. Would we get it first, would SixthSense get it first. Who would get the glory. Both teams sat trying to look cool but anxiously glancing at each other. Which way would it fall. Tick tock, tick tock. Time slowed to a crawl as each answer was read out. Even the noisy cricketers at the bar fell silent. Then the cry went out "Line!".......It was the bloody Muppets! they had won the extra 5 points. Those should have been our extra 5 points, that would have put us level with the mighty Sensers. How could they.
Even the sharing out of Vicky's dad's Boob shaped birthday cake failed to lift our heavy hearts.
Choose Cake, Choose Defeat
Final Scores.
Muppets 76, Campanologists 83, ThreeNonBlondes 91, SixthSense 96
Pick of the Questions
+ Who starred in the first Talkie Picture, The Jazz Singer ?
+ On what TV quiz show in the 50s did Bobby Charlton win £1000 ?
+ What N word can be Ordinal or Cardinal ?
+ Which Capital was once called Salisbury ?
+ Who has been nominated for an Oscaar, Golden Globe, Grammy and Nobel Peace Prize ?
+ Starbuck's was named after a character in which book ?
+ What is a Pisciculturist's hobby ?
SixthSense 12 wins, ThreeNonBlondes 4 wins, Campanologists 2 wins, Muppets 0 wins
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