Quiz Night. Thursday 7th May 2008

Fraser, Bella and me decide to go to Quiz Night at The Pub, we are, after all, exotically intelligent and well informed. 

John says he will come to Quiz Night too, which is a good thing because he knows all about Geography and Sports. 

We are bound to win.

We arrive at The Pub with seconds to spare before Quiz Night begins because we forgot that we had arranged to go. We forgot because we had to feed people and tell people to do their homework / revision and to practice their clarinets/ saxaphones/ pianos etc.. and then we remembered about Quiz Night and phoned eachother up.

Quiz Night begins at 8.30.

John is still at work but we arrive at The Pub and we secure a table with room for 4.

‘What shall we call our team?’ asks Bella.

Our team has to have a name. I rack my brain and rush to pick up our question sheets and our picture sheets from the bar. Fraser rushes to buy a bottle of Pino Grigio and a Gin and Tonic because he is on The Atkins Diet.

“Four Play” says Fraser, plonking the bottle of wine on the table with his Gin and Tonic..

‘That makes us sound like a bunch of swingers.’ I say, but we all agree that it is a very good name.

The questions are very difficult. 

‘What is the capital of Morocco?’ asks the Quiz Master.

‘Name the highest capital city in the world.’

‘How high is the Eiffel Tower?’

‘Look at picture number three. What is the name of the bridge in the picture?’ 

It’s all Geography and John is still at work. What shall we do ? 

‘What is a baby whale called?’

‘A calf ! Phew!’

John arrives. we show him the questions we have missed.

“Rabat.’ he says ‘La Paz. 320 metres, he says. The Bridge of No Return linking North and South Korea,’ says John. 

John is definitely On The Spectrum.

‘Who played Lord Percy in Blackadder series 2 with Rowan Atkinson?’ asks the Quiz master.

‘Tim McInnerny !’ says Fraser. ‘He’s a very good friend of ours.’

We are on a roll.

The team next to us is called The Big Noisy Table In The Middle. They mark our papers and we mark theirs. 

The table on the other side are called ‘Hands Up Who Voted For The Biggot.’ and the table opposite them are called ‘Boris and His Bendy Bus Bust Up.’ Everyone seems to be very obsessed with Boris. 

I am glad it’s not just me.

Bella says she voted Green and I say ‘Boris says he will plant trees all the way up Borough High Street’.

‘Oh good.’ says Bella.

We win a prize! We beat Hands Up Who voted For The Biggot ! The Big Noisy Table In The Middle misheard ‘Whale’ and guessed wildly what a baby ‘Quail’ might be called, so we beat them too. 

We come 8th and win a bottle of wine. 

Hurray!