'Fun At My Christmas Quiz!'

What a manic night last night was at my Christmas Quiz! I decided to surprise my fellow writers by turning up as Quizmaster dressed as Sherlock Holmes! As each new person arrived so I approached them looking intently through my magnifying glass at them 'just in case they happened to be Professor Moriarty in disguise'.

Now, most Women do not normally take kindly of being suspected of being a man - even less a fiend like Moriarty but I am well-known now for my 'quirky' sense of humour so my magnifying glass stayed clear of my rectum...

In fact, as you can see by these photos, my fellow Shorelink Writers all entered into the spirit of silliness and there was plenty of friendly banter all night. Fuelled by my 'chocolate rations' (I had placed a wrapped present on each of the four team tables beforehand) we managed to get through six rounds of questions in the two hours AND were treated to a strange 'bonus round' performance consisting of my old sparring partner, Alvin Culzac, and I 'singing' the carol 'Good King Wenceslas' with a subtle difference... well, not such a subtle difference actually as I was singing each first line in English whilst Alvin sung his

alternate lines in a 'mystery' different language? Aside from having to put up with our singing, the teams had the task of trying to work out which languages Alvin was singing in! I subsequently awarded 1 point for each correct answer with a bonus 5 points for those teams which recognised that Alvin was singing in Klingon! HA HA HA

Amazingly, TWO teams managed to identify the Klingon tongue but missed one or more of German, Italian & Spanish!!! What a bunch of 'Trekkies', eh?

 
As usual, in spite of my efforts to make it a more level playing field with some tricky multiple choice questions, Jenny's Team led pretty much throughout the contest and won with their heads in their chest by an impressive 10 points!

Sally Patricia Gardner (our Chair) is a 'Quiz Whizz' and ALWAYS ends up on the winning side no matter how difficult I try to make it for her!
I would shackle her chances by being in her team if I could but when its ME who is running the show even that's impossible!

In hindsight, I think I made the Quiz a tad too hard for 'most ordinary mortals' but its a very difficult task trying to put a quiz together. I hate it when all of the questions are SOOO easy that every team gets nearly all of them right but its a fine line to tread when you try to make a quiz a bit harder because if you set the bar too high people lose interest and/or get demoralised...

Still, overall I think everyone enjoyed the evening, the music (I brought my laptop to keep the festive sounds coming) and the silliness.

The one sadness for all of us being the lack of two of our most long standing members 'Bin & Bean Kennedy' (see last post here) who have now moved to Wales. I've known a lot of people do a LOT of things to get away from one of my 'dos' but physically moving to Wales tops the list! HA HA

No, seriously, 'Bean' asked me to send her the quiz questions and answers via e mail so I suspect I shall hear back from her soon with regard to how her and her lot got on!!

Here is the final scoreboard. A gallant effort by all concerned and poor old Tony B's team did really well to tie for third place after being at the rear of the field all the way through. They recognised the 'Klingon' language due to the skills of Mr. Paul J Middleton and did well on the last 'Christmas True or False' round.

I had to miss out one of the rounds I'd prepared due to the time but that I will post the whole Quiz and answers here for you all to have a go at very soon. Do let me know how you all do, won't you?

Lastly, we  celebrated a birthday last night - that of our long standing member, Daniel. He looks quite stunned, don't you think?

Ho!


      Ho!

     
          Ho!