Last night, we went to another pub to try our luck on their quiz night. It looked promising to begin with – fewer people around than in the last place we tried, and the quiz was slightly less professionally-organised.
At the beginning of the evening we had a bit of hassle from an extremely drunk guy, who was promptly removed from the bar by the manager.
To begin with, we struck out, with rounds pertaining to NZ culture that we just didn’t really have a clue about, although we scored some lucky guesses. But later there was a “blokes round” and a “girls round”, where we did reasonably well (including identifying the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel – well done, Nicola!), followed by a trivia trail round, where we did even better. Interspersed between the rounds were quick-fire prizes for handing in your answer sheet first (lollies!) and joke-telling (a fish swam into a concrete wall. He said “Dam!” won us two bonus points), and a musical chairs round (I came third, nul points). To our surprise, we came equal third at the end (those bonus joke points were important after all!), and faced off against the other third-placed team at Stone-Paper-Scissors, which I won – so final position was second. This is clearly a more fun quiz than the one we went to on Tuesday, which seemed to attract the more professional quizzer, as some teams were regularly scoring 9 or 10 points per round.
The drawbacks on the night: obviously, the drunk guy, and the food wasn’t brilliant (although the beer was – Mac’s Sassy Red). Hopefully the drunk guy won’t be a regular feature of this venue, and we’ll try different options on the menu, but it does look more promising.
Next week we’re off to yet another pub with Nicola’s work colleagues, so we’ll be able to try that out as well, and maybe be able to come to some kind of informed decision about where we’re going to spend our quiz dollars (metaphorically – all of them have been free to enter so far). Honestly, I’ll stop blogging about quiz nights when we find one that we like and can become regulars with!
On the way back, maybe 200 yards from home, we nearly fell over a small ginger cat which seemed very anxious and a bit lost. It proceeded to cross the rod at the crossing, as we did, and follow us home and actually came into the house. We telephoned the number on its collar and the chap who answered undertook to come and collect, but shortly afterwards his partner - clearly of harder-hearted mettle - called to advise us just to throw it out, since it wasn't far from home. It clearly wasn't ill-treated or under-fed and neither was the weather that bad, so we reckoned it was a try-on by a sharp moggie that can recognise a pair of softies a mile off. Rory has today dissuaded me from calling again to check that it made it home all right ...
ReplyDeleteYou have to be hard hearted with cats or before you know it you have 42 of the darned things.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea you were so keen on pub quizzing but certainly it sounds as though you're well catered for over there.
One thing though. "the first woman over the Niagara falls in a barrel" suggests that there was more than one...
(who was it, anyway?)
We took up pub quizzing at our local in Rotherhithe a couple of years back, and became quite good at it; we are looking to carry our success over to NZ!
ReplyDeleteAnnie Edson Taylor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Edson_Taylor