Prizes are essential and at our Quiz there is as much competition for the bag of lemons (as prize for last place) as there is for the winning chocolate prizes.
This weekend was my son's 14th birthday party. The house filled with slightly geeky teenage boys. The funny thing about teenage boys is that they are extremely clumsy and empty the house of any liquids. If they could drink all the water from the tap, I think they would. In, what I thought was an inspired idea, I sent them on a scavenger hunt. Questions based around the number 14, designed to keep them out of the house for at least an hour, proved to be reasonably successful and kept them out of the house while I finished the birthday cake.
It's meant to be a Lugia (a Pokemon character) but as the boys said, "it looks like a dragon!" Close enough, I think.
The long suffering husband took me out to meet some of his friends for a pub quiz in The Woolpack.
As it was supposed to be an Entertainment quiz and bearing in mind the venue, I swotted up on Emmerdale questions.
It is a sad state of affairs when, with only 3 teams playing you can't win either first or last place prize. However, I see no link between Cecil Parkinson, Phone Hacking and How many strings on a Cello with Entertainment. The long suffering husband was out of his comfort zone. He can do TV and film and even nearly remembered the band that Louise Redknapp was in but maths and politics questions provide no entertainment for him.
We were amused that the quiz master was unable to read some of his questions. At the end he apologised and said that it was his first time reading.
There was a spot the link question, where the link was so tenuous I'm still not sure I understand it now.
First you had to answer random questions and then find a link between them.
These are the answers:
1. Candle maker
2. Fantastic Mr Fox
3. A Man For All Seasons
4. Guildford
5. The English Channel
6. Only Connect
7. FAB1
The connection?
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| WHY? |
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