For the past couple of weeks I’ve been going to a pub quiz at the Rampant Lion with Gareth, Justine and some of her housemates/friends from fencing. The quiz is split into four parts, each with twenty questions, and we usually do well (we get at least 75% most times by the sounds of it), but we’re always pipped to the post by another team. This week was the same result, but with a slight twist…
Although we lost the actual quiz (I think we were probably third, but there’s only one prize which is twenty four cans of beer or something like that), there is a final question at the end. It’s a numbers game, whereby the quizmaster will ask you for a quantity in response to a question, e.g. “how many continents are there?” (before anyone says anything, it’s never that easy!). You have to get the answer exactly right to win, there’s none of this “closest answer gets the prize” and if no one guesses correctly then the money (yes, it’s a cash prize) rolls over to the next week.
The question is always something fairly obscure, and usually you just make a random guess because you might as well – no harm in trying. However, this week the question was “how many million registered members does eBay have?”. I knew it was about 150 million and for some reason the number 157 was the first to come into my head, so Justine put that down. I think the whole team nearly had simultaneous heart attacks when, a couple of minutes later, the quizmaster announced the answer and it turned out that I was right! Woohoo! Due to several rollovers (no one had won for a number of weeks) the prize money was £200, which worked out as £40 each for the five of us. Not bad for a couple of hours “work” down the pub. 🙂
Ah pub quizzes – we won the Rampant one when I lived at Daisybank road – sooo much beer. But never the rollover (we were 2 away from that!).
Keep up the good work 😀
Hugs x
Haha, well done 😀
You go fencing?
You mean as in swords and not the big wooden things around the garden right?
Even so…. You go fencing?
I don’t go fencing, but Justine does. They were her friends/flatmates, although I’ve met them before.
They were supposed to be offering fencing in my first year at Holy Cross, I signed up but then no one heard anything about it after that.
I think application of creosote is the most interesting part of fencing.
Heh, cool.
So drinks on you then Paul!
And im sorry Kirk – but the application of creosote to fencing isnt the most interesting part of fencing – as cerosote is banned for being carcanagenic!
Thank the good Lord above that you don’t go fencing. I was getting worried about you wielding a sword. Oh, the humanity!