Out of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
Yes like me you knew it was Neptune. You probably also knew it was Tasman who discovered a number of Pacific islands in the 1600s – unlike me.
In the end it didn’t matter – WE WON!
Oh you’ve guessed we’ve just come back from a quiz nite where I swear our table drank more than any other. Luckily we won a voucher to a wine bar.
This is Groover shortly before he had to sit down for getting the true/false answer wrong:
It was an electronic quiz. Multiple choice. You buzzed in your answers. Here’s the leader board.
It was fun having the instant scores. It increased the anticipation each round – especially towards the end. We drew first in the first round, won outright in the second, and came second in the last round due to not knowing about Tasman. Doh! Still overall first and that’s what matters… doesn’t it?
Actually second place got a few bottles of wine which also looked attractive…
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Once my lovely wife was organising one of these quiz nights and I went along to make up a team and, of course to support herself.
Anyway, I tend to get somewhat emotionally involved in these type of things so when the answer to the question ‘what British actress won an Oscar for her role in ‘Shakespeare in Love’ was given as Gwyneth Paltrow, I erupted out of my chair with a passionate roar, “It bloody was not, it was bloody Judi Dench, Paltrow isn’t even British!!”
I’ll never forgot the look on my wife’s face as I came out of the chair.
LOL!
A friend of mine had this cute way of announcing the rules of a quiz nite – he would say:
“Ladies and Gentlemen, we are not necessarily looking for the right answer – we are looking for the answer the scrutineers have. Live with it.”
Heh, quiz nights. Did you know that cellophane comes from “cellophania”? And if a broom could dream of a better life it would be “swishing”.