It was the Lemmings’ turn to be question masters this week meaning they would lose their perch at the top of the League. Moreover Bob had to be away but fortunately the Nags Head were able to provide a question master for their game and the day was saved.
Matt took the chair at the British Flag who were playing the Harrington Academicals and enjoyed a “predictably close fought but friendly game between the British Flag who led throughout and the Harrington Academicals who were never quite shaken off, but came in 7 short. Scores were healthy and the questions received with reasonable enthusiasm. Only 13 questions eluded both teams, although there were a glut of these at the start of the Generals. One discovered a few things during the night including that there are several ways to size a lake, that the RSPB never was "the Avian society", but did start out as the "Plumage Society" and there are folk out there who know how many games a baseball team plays each year, whilst others have had the skill and privilege to negotiate the 21stC oblivious to the lyrics of "Angels". There was little in the way of controversy, though my incorrect ordering of the question about the home ground of Kilmarnock and "1066 and all that" certainly didn't help the Accies' cause, whilst delighting the member of the Flag for whom one sport question per night is more than enough”.
Nick was asking the questions at the ever-friendly Park Tavern, a long-standing team of good friends who were playing the Lemmings’ opponents the previous week, the Pack Horse B
owling Club. Here too things ran smoothly the only slight dissent being the measurement of a lake (volume, surface etc) and whether or not Phnom Penh was actually alliterative – both swiftly dispensed with. Whilst some questions were quite difficult they were well balanced despite Alsace putting in a surprising double appearance.The visitors put up a brave fight but the Park carried the day. The evening ended with a very cheffy supper, presented in individual bowls (no queuing up!!) of spicy meat and rice – very impressive!!
Next week the Lemmings face the Park Tavern in the second round of the cup – a tough one!
3 comments:
Pretty sure The Usual Suspects wasn't a Tarantino film as described in one of my questions, didn't really matter though as i had no idea what the answer required was anyway. Good set of questions overall i thought.
Yes that slipped through - it was directed by Bryan Singer
There might have been contention if the history supplementary asking which king of England died on the toilet had been asked in the quiz. According to Horrible Histories, Edmund ironside was stabbed from below whilst on the privy
More authotiative sources are not absolutely definitive in the subject, but it would be a pity to let academic rigour spoil a good story
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