Saints and Ambassadors

5 June 2025

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.

Ye Old Elm Tree

Ye Old Elm Tree

News

  1. A bit cooler
  2. A blast from the past
  3. A quiz from John
  4. A sporting chance
  5. All at sea
  6. An off-night for the Semaphore Penguins
  7. Animal stamps
  8. Another close finish
  9. Another cracker from John
  10. Are you hungry?
  11. Arnolfini part II
  12. Avian beer round
  13. Avian beer round – answers
  14. Baby animals and gingerbread
  15. Back in the pub
  16. Back to school
  17. Backwards
  18. Batteries, beer and bones
  19. Beer challenge
  20. Beer challenge answers
  21. Beer challenge answers
  22. Better late than never
  23. Bigger is not always better
  24. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
  25. Blown away?
  26. Bob’s birthday
  27. Bonny Scotland
  28. Burns Night Special
  29. Busy Busy Busy
  30. Car trouble
  31. Choices, choices
  32. Choose to Challenge
  33. Chortle, groan, or mystified silence?
  34. Christmas quizzing
  35. Clear as mud
  36. Coding coming along nicely
  37. Competition hots up
  38. Conclave
  39. Controversial colours
  40. Debate is healthy
  41. Do you know your motorways?
  42. Does crime pay?
  43. Duality
  44. Election? What election?
  45. Elm Tree Quiz pleased to be back…
  46. Enjoying the weekend already?
  47. Epiphany
  48. Ex-rated
  49. Follow the whimsy
  50. Football? What football?
  51. Football? What football?
  52. From Wombles to Wittgenstein…
  53. From zero to hero (almost)
  54. Generally knowledgable
  55. Golden Wedding
  56. Good news!
  57. Gothic spectacular
  58. Groundhog Day?
  59. Guess the theme…
  60. Happy New Year
  61. Happy New Year!
  62. Happy New Year!
  63. Holiday season
  64. How big is a quantum jump anyway?
  65. How old is the Marquis de Sade?
  66. How tall is that footballer?
  67. Hurly burly
  68. I’ll get my coat…
  69. Iconic quiz
  70. If music be the food of quizzing
  71. Imperial disputes
  72. In search of a quiz
  73. In which the new Book of the Moment is revealed
  74. In with the new
  75. Insulting your intelligence
  76. International Women’s Day
  77. Is it really December already?
  78. Is this a terrace I see before me?
  79. It’s a pleasure
  80. It’s in the post
  81. It’s November!
  82. It’s tight at the top
  83. Jersey quizzing
  84. John takes the stage again
  85. Just like real life
  86. Keep calm and carry on quizzing
  87. Keep on punning
  88. Literature and art
  89. Local knowledge
  90. LOCKDOWN! 
  91. Marmite
  92. Master of the Quiz
  93. Merry Christmas!
  94. Michael is back
  95. More cows
  96. Moving on
  97. Nearly there
  98. New quiz available
  99. New quiz available
  100. No man is an island
  101. No theme today…
  102. Olympia
  103. On the redistribution of prize money
  104. On your guard
  105. One for the Trekkies
  106. Oops
  107. Out with the old
  108. Penguins 101
  109. Penguins and Pasta
  110. Playing catchup
  111. Problem with dollar signs
  112. Puns and posers
  113. Quiz hit by opioid scandal
  114. Quiz theory
  115. Quiziversary
  116. Ready for another challenge?
  117. Ready to roll
  118. Recalibration complete
  119. Record turnout as temperatures rise
  120. Relaunch 2.0
  121. Retail therapy
  122. Room to breathe
  123. Saints and Ambassadors
  124. Scatology warning
  125. Short and sweet
  126. Something for everyone
  127. Squawk!
  128. St Patrick’s Day
  129. Standing room only
  130. Still plenty of quizzers around
  131. Sunlit uplands
  132. Take a Deep Breath…
  133. Teamwork
  134. Temporary measures
  135. The (Book of the) Moment of Truth
  136. The answer’s in the question
  137. The apocalypse starts at home
  138. The Christmas Quiz
  139. The closest quiz ever?
  140. The dizzy heights of quizzing
  141. The end of an era?
  142. The fall that follows the pride
  143. The motivations of a quiz setter
  144. The never-ending story
  145. The Next Book of the Moment
  146. The questions we really want answering
  147. The Quizzing Forecast
  148. The Semaphore Penguins bid you adieu
  149. The state we’re in
  150. The witching hour approaches
  151. There are a lot of animals out there
  152. Things presidential
  153. Things that Anthony likes
  154. Thursday quiz – 11 July
  155. Tie break tension
  156. Tie-break special
  157. Tough competition
  158. Truly great wrong answers
  159. Tutti Frutti
  160. Up in the air
  161. What are points worth, anyway?
  162. What happens next
  163. Who stole my cheese?
  164. Wired spiders
  165. With great power comes great responsibility
  166. Words, words, words