Saints and Ambassadors
Busy quiz again last night, with 73.9 people taking part. John was in charge this week, so a welcome return for bad cryptic clues and hagiographic geography. Plus a niche beer round featuring sound effects from sci-fi films.
Nice to see such interest taken in 16th century portraiture.
Top scores were 35, 34, 34, 34, resulting in a 3-way tie break for 2nd and 3rd place.
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger. Oil on oak, 1533.
Busy Busy Busy
Almost ran out of answer sheets last night with twenty teams in the pub. And new winners, which is always good to see. I’d like to think that from week-to-week the quiz contains considerable variety so it is not always the same teams that prevail. By my reckoning there have been some eight or nine different winning teams so far this year.
Winning score this week 31. See if you can beat that.
Cheers
Frank
Football? What football?
Busy quiz night in the Elm Tree notwithstanding the distraction from some minor football event in Bilbao. That said, some football knowledge will assist with this week’s quiz. As will nursery rhyme knowledge. A topic much overlooked, at least after primary school.
Top scores 35, 33, 32, 29, 28, 27…
Cheers
Frank
Penguins and Pasta
The Word Round this week offered teams an opportunity for penguin redemption, which I am pleased to say most grabbed with two flippers.
Two tie breaks were required to separate Caroline’s and Alastair’s teams on 31 points each. They were equally adjacent on the time of the fastest half marathon run by a man in an elf costume (1 hr 15mins), but the cost of James Cleverley’s 11 hour round trip by private jet to Kigali sorted out the actuaries from the accountants (£161,500).
And to demonstrate that setting quizzes means moving beyond one’s comfort zone, you will see that I have ventured into the noisy world of motor sport.
Lastly, many thanks to Dan Ballard for his efforts on Tuesday night. Just about got my voice back for last night’s quiz.
Cheers
Frank
Conclave
In true Conclave fashion: quiz sheets in liturgical purple, teams sequestered in the Elm Tree for the evening, and after several high scoring rounds, tie-breaks needed to separate 1st and 2nd on 34 and 3rd and 4th on 32. No burning of quiz sheets though.
Cheers
Frank
Ye Old Elm Tree
