Sunday the *checks* 7th of August
You were last left with the cliffhanger of the pub quiz at the Hungry Horse which in fairness most people know what happened anyway. A solid team of 10 named "Team Win" with each person covering a topic that was likely to turn up,Grist with Geography,Swade with Sport and Hawkes with just about everything else. In fairness had there have been a round about "Stuff that happened at Mercury Point" round or a round about comedy or something I would have excelled. Saying that the only comedy question that did come up ('Going Straight' was a sequel to which comedy show) I knew so fair enough.
However despite this hand picked and crafted knowledgable team (+ Tays) being assembled,it still does not quarantee you victory unless the person asking the questions is competant enough to do so. Unfortunatly ours was Welsh.And blonde. Welsh,Blonde and Female. Needless to say it went downhill from here.
Mistake #1
Picking a table in the corner.
Her " Right,are we ready for the answers"
Us " Can we have question 10 repeated"
Her " Ready?"
Us (In unison,10 of us so quite a loud noise) "NO!"
Her "......."
Us ".....(waiting)"
She gives us a look like she almost understands the request to repeat the question but just doesnt quite
Her "Right...Question 1 the answer is....."
Luckily Hawkes was up at the bar and had heard it.As it was a Dr Who question,had we not of heard it I would have been pissed off.
Mistake #2
Ok so one of the rounds is a kareoke round. The answer is a song which you have to run up to her,take the mic and sing the song or another by the same band.
One problem is we are all shacked up in the corner. Miraculously she realises this problem and comes up with the solution of "I will just move up and down".
The mistake we make is trusting her to understand how to follow these instructions.. She doesnt move up and down instead staying at the front and simply bobbing up and down within a 1m radius,just enough for the bloke she clearly fancies and thinks she will get a quickie off later if she helps him win the quiz to grab the mic every time. Seeing as its 5 points everytime he does it it seems hard enough for us to win at this point.....
Mistake #3
This round is based on each answer beginning with the last letter of the previous answer, eg ball,leg,Gatwick (Trib Kinger) Ok fair enough but this does seem a bit complex for someone who has difficulty even saying the questions....
Question 5 is who played Tv's Eliminator. The answer is Woodward,but the previous question we know ends in S,leading us to guess Schwarzenegger as a guess. However shes made the mistake and realises it. Needing an excuse for thinking an S is a W we have this classic line.
"See this is what happens when you write up the quiz in bed"
Bollocks,you couldnt pronounce half the questions correctly,let alone make them up. She was obv using "Worlds best pub quiz questions volume 3" or something to that extent. There was no excuse for that cock up and it got worse....
Mistake #4
Shes now realised she has to do something as somehow the team who papers we are marking (obv we cant do our own) have actually got the right answer.She decides every team can have a point apart from those who got it right,they get two. So we give the guys back their 8/11 and have our sheet returned to find we have been given 7,with no point for her cock up. So we change it to 8 and she asks each team to give their scores. When we say 8 the other team kicks up a fuss....
Now she has a choice of what to do
A.Come up to us and ask us whats going on
B.Go to our RIVALS,ask them what we should have got then accuse us of cheating and give us 5 points instead.
Guess which she did...
At this point im now furious,im not usually that competitive but Im now nearly yelling at 70 year olds trying to explain things. Eventually we get everything sorted out and after 10 mins of careful slow explaining she realises what we've done.
Despite all these attrocities we come 6th which isnt too bad. However the big money is in the next round where we are asked 3 questions,get them all right and you get £250.
1.Name the first ape in space
2.Where did Ullyses fly too
3.Name the first woman comander of a space shuttle.
We get 2/3 with Ullyses being flown to the Sun not Jupiter. Despite spending about £100 on food and drink and bearing with this Welsh bitches attempt of a quiz,she tells us afterwards shes glad we didnt win it as we were so noisy.. She tells us to come back next week if we're quieter. We tell her we'll come back when theres a decent pub quiz installed and as the last 2 weeks she hasnt done it I think we've got our wish and now have come second twice!
Anyway cba to write anymore as im so tired atm so thanks for reading once again
You were last left with the cliffhanger of the pub quiz at the Hungry Horse which in fairness most people know what happened anyway. A solid team of 10 named "Team Win" with each person covering a topic that was likely to turn up,Grist with Geography,Swade with Sport and Hawkes with just about everything else. In fairness had there have been a round about "Stuff that happened at Mercury Point" round or a round about comedy or something I would have excelled. Saying that the only comedy question that did come up ('Going Straight' was a sequel to which comedy show) I knew so fair enough.
However despite this hand picked and crafted knowledgable team (+ Tays) being assembled,it still does not quarantee you victory unless the person asking the questions is competant enough to do so. Unfortunatly ours was Welsh.And blonde. Welsh,Blonde and Female. Needless to say it went downhill from here.
Mistake #1
Picking a table in the corner.
Her " Right,are we ready for the answers"
Us " Can we have question 10 repeated"
Her " Ready?"
Us (In unison,10 of us so quite a loud noise) "NO!"
Her "......."
Us ".....(waiting)"
She gives us a look like she almost understands the request to repeat the question but just doesnt quite
Her "Right...Question 1 the answer is....."
Luckily Hawkes was up at the bar and had heard it.As it was a Dr Who question,had we not of heard it I would have been pissed off.
Mistake #2
Ok so one of the rounds is a kareoke round. The answer is a song which you have to run up to her,take the mic and sing the song or another by the same band.
One problem is we are all shacked up in the corner. Miraculously she realises this problem and comes up with the solution of "I will just move up and down".
The mistake we make is trusting her to understand how to follow these instructions.. She doesnt move up and down instead staying at the front and simply bobbing up and down within a 1m radius,just enough for the bloke she clearly fancies and thinks she will get a quickie off later if she helps him win the quiz to grab the mic every time. Seeing as its 5 points everytime he does it it seems hard enough for us to win at this point.....
Mistake #3
This round is based on each answer beginning with the last letter of the previous answer, eg ball,leg,Gatwick (Trib Kinger) Ok fair enough but this does seem a bit complex for someone who has difficulty even saying the questions....
Question 5 is who played Tv's Eliminator. The answer is Woodward,but the previous question we know ends in S,leading us to guess Schwarzenegger as a guess. However shes made the mistake and realises it. Needing an excuse for thinking an S is a W we have this classic line.
"See this is what happens when you write up the quiz in bed"
Bollocks,you couldnt pronounce half the questions correctly,let alone make them up. She was obv using "Worlds best pub quiz questions volume 3" or something to that extent. There was no excuse for that cock up and it got worse....
Mistake #4
Shes now realised she has to do something as somehow the team who papers we are marking (obv we cant do our own) have actually got the right answer.She decides every team can have a point apart from those who got it right,they get two. So we give the guys back their 8/11 and have our sheet returned to find we have been given 7,with no point for her cock up. So we change it to 8 and she asks each team to give their scores. When we say 8 the other team kicks up a fuss....
Now she has a choice of what to do
A.Come up to us and ask us whats going on
B.Go to our RIVALS,ask them what we should have got then accuse us of cheating and give us 5 points instead.
Guess which she did...
At this point im now furious,im not usually that competitive but Im now nearly yelling at 70 year olds trying to explain things. Eventually we get everything sorted out and after 10 mins of careful slow explaining she realises what we've done.
Despite all these attrocities we come 6th which isnt too bad. However the big money is in the next round where we are asked 3 questions,get them all right and you get £250.
1.Name the first ape in space
2.Where did Ullyses fly too
3.Name the first woman comander of a space shuttle.
We get 2/3 with Ullyses being flown to the Sun not Jupiter. Despite spending about £100 on food and drink and bearing with this Welsh bitches attempt of a quiz,she tells us afterwards shes glad we didnt win it as we were so noisy.. She tells us to come back next week if we're quieter. We tell her we'll come back when theres a decent pub quiz installed and as the last 2 weeks she hasnt done it I think we've got our wish and now have come second twice!
Anyway cba to write anymore as im so tired atm so thanks for reading once again
posted by Gareth @ Sunday, August 07, 2005
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