'Fun At My Christmas Quiz!'

I had a great time this evening at Shorelink Writers! I decided to put together a Christmas Quiz and spent AGES on the Internet and scouring through specialist books researching the questions for it months ago.

 The idea was to create a NEW Quiz with a few of the usual questions but quite a few fresh ones to really get people thinking! By making some of the rounds multiple choice I also hoped to add a random element to the scoring in order to give everyone a chance of competing with the usual winners of club quizzes. Ironically, though I did a pretty good job of this in the main, the final two rounds of questions I DID find in their entirety on the Internet and this had the effect of allowing the usual candidates to come through the field and win! Still, never mind, I think everyone who attended enjoyed themselves which is the main thing. Entertaining everyone and putting on a real show (I took my computer with me and played a load of Christmas songs beforehand and in the interval to add to the Christmassy atmosphere) felt really special for me. I wore one of my old D.J'ing satin shirts -BRIGHT- red and got up to quite a few tricks throughout proceedings to make the evening go with a bang. At the end of each round I made a performance out of updating the scoring. 'The scores on the doors' is an old chestnut from the Generation Game days of telly but its always good fun to have a bit of jeering and plenty of banter between the teams after each round.  At the end of the scoring I made a point of playing a snippet of 'Merry Christmas Everyone' by Slade for the team in the lead and 'Lonely This Christmas' by Mud for the team bringing up the rear.   My mate, Alvin's team were stuck in last position all night so they got used to hearing that! Mind you, that team was a person shy as there were only 15 players present as well as myself. People can get very competitive at these events though! Poor old Alvin suggested he should get a bonus for each question his team got right as his team were a person short but Christmas or not the other teams booed the suggestion down! HA HA

Quite a few of my fellow writers made themselves look festive and those that didn't made up for it by being jolly and getting into the swing of things. It is so much more enjoyable putting on a show for a willing audience and one which has a mind to enjoy itself. Some of the so called parties I used to do discos for were as jolly as a funeral and trying to get anyone to engage and enjoy themselves was a thankless task! I miss the old excitement of entertaining a crowd - especially since I have been out of work - as a great night is always a satisfying nights work and when you come home and feel you have helped people to have a good time its a great feeling. I will post a copy of my Christmas Quiz  questions here tomorrow in case you would like to have a go at it yourself or with friends over Christmas but for now its late and I want to go to bed so you will have to make do with a few pictures from the night for now!