We arrived at 7pm for, alas, the last night of the quiz league. We found our usual seats and discussed Robson's trip to Seville. Robson was looking somewhat jaded - complaining that Spain was too hot and he struggled to sleep. Bless! A Eurovision reference seemed appropriate after we had gone through the newspaper and found nothing inspiring in the headlines. There were no discussions about food; but the Young's, Kronenbourg and wine wine and soda were flowing at the usual rate! There were also different bar maids again this week - I think they must rotate between Tescos, the Farmers and Munch!
The team composed of Robson, Kevster, El Barnetto and, Mrs B arrived to provide further strength. She arrived a little later at 7.40pm demanding a large glass of white wine and soda. It turned out that we would need all the help we could get; half way through the first round, Kevster's mobile was ringing furiously. The bad news arrived and poor Kevster's house had been burgled. His father (Mr Hamster) took him home immediately to survey the wreckage.
This event was suitably reflected by the state of the notes, which show 3 different people's handwriting; Kevster's sudden departure left us all in a state of shock. We hounded our way through the first round as best we could.
After Kevster had queried the scoring with Theo last week, I thought that we might be in for a rough ride. Funnily enough, Theo got it spot on this week as we scored 28 out of 30, which agreed with our count. On this occasion, we were outdone by the Pickled Eggheads, who gained the maximum 30 points. Stilton is made in Leicester, but English is the main language in Belize rather than Spanish. Robson started to count the number of bones in the body and of course was accurate with the answer of 206.
We bought some raffle tickets and then proceeded with the music section and this is where we dropped a few marks, however, we did get full marks in the name that tune round. Either Theo was up to his old tricks again or, everyone else struggled a bit. We were only 3 points off the pace and the Pickled Eggheads marched on!
From our final round, we only dropped 3 points and got 3 out of 5 in the true or false, but this wasn't enough and we ended up with 105 points - 4 points off the Pickled Eggheads, who romped home.
The raffle was not won again, which was nice and the team can collect the dosh next week at the final presentation. The quiz will continue as normal next week along with the presentation.
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