On your guard
Full house last night with 18 teams and 80+ quizzers. And highly competitive with teams on good form and top scores of 35,34,33,31,30.
As you’ll see it was another GUA quiz. No particular reason save that when I set a GUA quiz just before Christmas the winning team suggested that it was a one off and couldn’t be repeated. I beg to differ.
Foolishly another team last night suggested a third GUA quiz is beyond me. We’ll see.
yours guardedly
Frank
What are points worth, anyway?
Maybe my quizzes are getting harder. Top score last night was 30. Followed by 28,28 and 27. And a very disappointing set of scores on the City of Durham round. See how you get on.
Cheers
Frank
Wired spiders
Tough one last night if the scores are anything to go by. Joint top scores of 28.
Having compiled the quiz I would suggest that there was reasonable variety and range of topics. But does that actually amount to General Knowledge? Or does it require a level of specialist, or at least more than general, knowledge albeit on a range of subjects? How much can you reasonably be expected to know about Taylor Swift? That’s rhetorical. Or is it? Food for thought.
In any event there was an entertaining beer round: matching the patterns of spiders’ webs with the drugs they had been given by NASA in a somewhat dubious experiment many years ago. Disappointed to report that teams’ knowledge of the effect of benzedrine and chloral hydrate on arachnids was limited. Albeit it is caffeine spiders really should avoid.
Yours somewhere on the scale between chilled and wired,
Frank
Insulting your intelligence
Grand time had by all (I hope) last night in the Elm Tree. Three-way tie for 1st, 2nd and 3rd on 32 points, with others close behind.
Round 3 does not translate well to the online version. Donald Trump places reliance upon a test he took in 2018 as evidence that he is compos mentis. The test in question is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment used by medics to ascertain mental faculty and early signs of dementia. Round 3 is an adaptation of the sort of questions included in that test. Teams last night were given sealed envelopes containing the questions and under strict exam conditions given only 5 minutes to answer. I readily acknowledged that they may well consider that the round insulted their intelligence. Just like Donald Trump.
Cheers
Frank
Who stole my cheese?
Very chilled and entertaining night last night with even the Quizmaster (i.e. yours truly) in relaxed and generous marking mode.
Last week was the Christmas quiz so this week was back to some semblance of normality albeit with a themed quiz, words beginning GUA. Winning scores were 35 (aided by an impressive 9/10 final round), 31 and 29. Second last 22.
However, the night will be remembered for one of the all-time great wrong answers. Round 2 Question 5 is Who or what have the Swiss Guard ceremonially protected since 1506? Hats off to the special kind of genius of Team 5 who answered “Cheese”. I am still digesting the implications of half a millennium guarding cheese…
No quiz in the pub next week. Back in person on Wednesday 3 January with Michael in the quizmaster’s chair.
But there is a quiz online available from next Wednesday evening.
Best wishes to all for Christmas and the New Year.
Cheers
Frank
Ye Old Elm Tree
