This would be a tough one!! The Cock currently top of the C League, looking for promotion and Jackie heading the individual merits. Fortunately we were on our home turf with an outstanding selection of real ales to fortify the mind.
The selection of ales has made the Tavern a very popular venue and it is busy every night; but this time the numbers were swelled by football fans watching the Manchester derby (City playing United in the Carling Cup) and the Ladies’ darts team playing at home. It must be said this had its drawbacks as the visitors (in particular) had difficulty hearing the questions.
With a couple of exceptions the questions were very good (objections were raised to questions that required two answers) and it was a very close game. Before the last set of 20 questions the Cock were ahead by just 3 points with 74 to 71 and it all hung on the last round. Split up into the six groups of 20 questions the scores were (the Cock results first as the guests):
16/14, 11/18, 14/14, 12/15, 21/10 – the final round score was 12/19 and the Phoenix won by a whisker (86/90).
Sadly the tensions generated by the close competition and noise problems meant that the game lacked the fun and laughter we usually enjoy - challenges to the questionmaster’s scoring always create bad feeling.
But the beer was excellent and went down well with the fine selection of sandwiches offered by Brian and Tracey.
Hard luck the Cock – it was a great contest!!
2 comments:
well done, nick & Co.
Our match was even closer : we lost to the Castle on the tie-breaker! It was an enormously good natured contest though, despite one or two weaknesses/inaccuracies in the questions - not many, and the Q's were generally appreciated, but with such a close contest, it could have been awkward, if folk were that way inclined - fortunately no-one was!
Liz H
Hi Nick,
I hope you are well.
I work for Hill & Knowlton PR agency, representing Britvic and one of their products - J20. As part of our next campaign – a new flavour of pub quiz from J20 - we have been following a number of key blogs as a means of research. From your blog I can see that you obviously have a real interest in pub quizzes!
Our current campaign sees the launch of the new J20 Pub Quiz – a new quiz format with innovative questions, involving lateral thinking and numeracy skills amongst others! It’s a bit different from the traditional, trivia based pub quiz.
I’m keen to engage and establish working relationships with bloggers such as yourself as part of our wider campaign. To gauge both your opinion on this particular project but also offer exclusive opportunities/insights on future J20 campaigns.
We would also like to send you a few J20 goodies in the mean time and a taste of the questions we will asking. Therefore, if you could let me know the best address to send these to, I will be able to send them out in the next few days.
Look forward to hearing from you,
Regards,
Pippa
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