Gothic spectacular

26 October 2023

Last night’s quiz was a Goth/Gothic special. What I’d like to characterise as a sort of Thinking Person’s Halloween.

The quiz provides a range of Goth-ic themes including gloomy, grotesque and supernatural fiction, the odd Germanic tribe, the odd vampire, European architectural style characterised by general pointiness, followed three hundred years later by a revival of general pointiness, non-classical primitivism and of course Goth subculture with lots and lots of dark clothing and lashings of eyeshadow.

Decided not to present the questions in a heavy Gothic script typeface. Afraid you had to be in the pub for the Beer Round for that.

Top scores 32,29,28,27,26….

And heads up for our next couple of Books of the Moment. 0/10 for originality, but by popular demand we will have George Orwell’s 1984 followed by Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons.

Cheers

Frank