Wired spiders

8 February 2024

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