Another quiz

Tuesday night is Dolphin quiz night, Thursday night is Ship quiz night – one village, two pubs, two completely different quizzes! Tonight we went to a different venue, one of Uphill’s two cricket clubs, Weston, for the squash club quiz… does that sound complicated?

This quiz, organized by our neighbour Graham and our friend Manchu who also produced and read the questions, was to raise money for the squash club for some new equipment. There were five – yes five rounds (the Dolphin has two of twenty-five questions each) of twenty questions (the Ship also has five rounds, but one is a picture round, one is a music round, of between ten and fifteen questions.Tonight there were a hundred questions… so a tough quiz!! Halfway through there was a lovely buffet so we were able to revive ourselves.

Because my husband and i have a bit of a reputation as keen quizzers we were split up, and were in teams apart from each other. The questions were totally random, and our teams were neck and neck… in the first round they were ahead by two points, after the second we were level pegging, then we raced ahead by four points. They caught us up… why did we give an answer of Alice Cooper when it was Marilyn Manson? Why did we say Tottenham Hotspurs not Arsenal? Why did we not know which two French words made Velcro? If only… the other team beat us… by one point!

As second placed we received a money prize, which we donated to the squash club for their equipment; my husband’s team won a bottle of wine each… which I obviously get to share!

A great night out!