21st August 2009

Daren, Tina, Pete, Mrs Pete and myself took to the blocks as Usain Hound
at the Farmers last night. And like our namesake, we got a fast start,
built through the "drive phase" and cantered clear, showboating to the
crowd as we took the prize.

It didn't quite work that way though. We received an early boost as Pete
had cunningly hid Mrs B's house keys, forcing her to either roam the
streets of Croydon or join us, must have been a close decision. The quiz
normally has a number of multi choice questions and it seemed to be one
of those nights where we got more of the line decisions wrong than
right, whoever heard of an American town called Elephant for example?

That said we did enough to stay in contention and surprise, surprise, it
came down to a nine-way playoff on "What is the population of India".
Our 1.1bn estimate seemed to be based on later statistics than the
actual answer and it was not to be.

http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/indiapopulation.htm


For those food addicts, none was consumed although Pete's pre-quiz meal
was apparently a very satisfying chicken kebab.

The one disappointing note to the evening, was Daren's failure, I think
for the first time, to get the anagram question.

MEGATONS anyone?