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Film and TV Quiz 2007

 

20th March 2007

Results here

I suppose by the end it was dark, and shortly before kick off there had definitely been a snow (ok, sleet) storm, but you  would be pushing it to describe that particular Tuesday as a dark and stormy night.

 

This was the City of London Friends’ first open quiz at the new venue of the Poet on Middlesex Street; apart from one slip up <ahem> the organisation on the night seemed to go very smoothly.

 

This was also our first quiz in the new format... We recognise that it can be a little difficult to get to the venue for a prompt 6:15 start, so the main quiz has moved to 7:00 and a mini-quiz is in operation for those who would like to get there and drink <sorry, compete> early. You can see the happy, smiling winners on the right (somewhere) (despite two challenges to the authority of the quiz setters! P’shaw)

 

Another slight change to the format saw us with only six rounds of ten questions instead of our traditional eight - well, with the later start we wouldn’t like to see you all miss your last trains now, would we?

 

So, given that we’re now dealing with a maximum of 120 marks, it’s time to say goodbye to an old standby of the report writer, the percentages. Well, percentages of 187 marks make for interesting (and text filling-ly large) numbers of decimal points, it’s not the same out of 120.

 

So, onto the quiz itself:-on the night there were six fully correct rounds; the winners were the only ones to get two rounds completely correct; they only dropped one question in the first half of the competition, were never behind (although they shared first place with the team that eventually finished second after round one) and the results can be seen here.

 

See you all next time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our genial host for the evening, Mr “Peter” Inwood, who only once in the evening told us that we were at the Puzzle <oops>. And something blue I found on my camera??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first winners of our “Mini Quiz”. Daleks of God, and if there’s a story behind that name I’d love to know what it is!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Team Name - Crouching Dame Hidden Oscar - and if there’s a story behind that name I’m happy to leave it exactly where it is!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lady on the left was not part of the losing team (Beauties and the Beast), but she accepted their scratch cards on the assurance that she knew them. If you haven’t got the cards hunt her down; if you have, thanks very much!

On the right, The Lost Weekenders who were second on the night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The winning team - the aptly named Square Eyed - with 106 out of 120, or 83.33333% (see what I mean?) with the Golden Video (and some red envelopes!)

 

If you were the winner of one of the above, appear uncredited in a picture, or have any photographic evidence of a past quiz then please let me know!

 

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Music Quiz - 1st May 2007

It was a fine and pleasant spring evening at the Poet  when 21 teams of the country’s finest musical masterminds met in Middlesex Street. And I’m sorry I missed the evening; it seems to have been interesting with comparatively few “perfect” 20’s and all teams putting in reasonable scores at some point (you can check how the scoring went for you here

Don’t forget to check how the mini quiz scores went for you as well!

Now a question; since the early days of this web-site you’ve had to endure copious amounts of my drivel in these reports; this has mainly been because I was trying to say enough to allow me to include all the pictures we needed to. This time I have included all the picture on the thumbnail list to the left of the winners, above, and you can wheel your way through them as you wish. Is this better, worse? Any reactions welcome here.

So well done to all the winners pictured, to everyone for taking part, the setters and markers. See you next time!

 

Sports Quiz - 16th October 2007

It was a dark and stormy night - well 60mm of rain fell in parts of Oxfordshire according to the BBC Weather website - sadly I failed to note the weather around the Poet, either physically or mentally!

However, I do know that 14 teams of the finest brains in that fine public house competed once again  for the much-vaunted Golden Cock

                                              

In keeping with our new (this year) concept of Mini Quiz followed by the Main Quiz, our intrepid Quiznauts were presented with what seemed like a reasonable 40 question warm up, but most of them scored 60 or more out of 80 (and those that didn’t hadn’t finished the quiz so...) with the winners (Quiz Team Ohurugou 78 points) only beating second place (Creditable Performers 77 points) by half a question

                                       

On to the main quiz, and our now traditional six rounds of 10 questions each started with a very high scoring couple of rounds (the average score of 96% on the first round being possibly the highest average we’ve had for a round in this particular quiz) before the scores tapered off a little as we went into the interval.

And a quick apology to “The Marseilles Marauders” who won our envelope draw (a bottle of bubbly kindly supplied by the Poet (that’s the Poet, Pete) at the interval. Due to brain fade I failed to capture your images for posterity (I think that’s right)

Now, can I just assure those who don’t attend the Sports Quiz because they don’t want to sit through a round on the 1997 Netball world cup that neither do I. Each round has some sort of theme, but in general will feature between seven and 10 different sports. This year we featured (yes) football, cricket, Rugbys League and Union, darts, moto GP athletics, horse racing, baseball, fencing, tennis, the Olympics, Formula 1, and snooker. And that was just the foirst two rounds. Next year, perhaps, Jenga anyone?

Anyhow, those who have been watching will know that the famed Arsene Wenger, Crap at Jenga have a penchant for winning this quiz; this year they were never less than joint leaders, and never more than two points ahead. In fact the top five teams finished on 116, 115, 114, 113 and 112 points out of 120 which is a fantastically close (and well-informed) set of results so well done.

 

See how your team scored here - Microsoft XL required

 

It just remains to say thanks to all who participated and helped. With entry fees, prize draws, our patented “buy-an-answer” technology and donations we raised well over £600. Thanks!

 

General Knowledge Quiz - 14th November 2007

All together now; “It was a dark and stormy night” (If I ever get to set the General Knowledge Quiz guess what the theme’s going to be!). Yes - our old friend the General Knowledge Quiz 2007 took place on 14th November at our new friend, the Poet in Middlesex Street (which quizmaster Geoff did not confuse with any other venue!)

 

15 teams were battling for the (see picture in the slideshow below) increasingly fragile Golden Brain, and the standard of competition was (as always) high!

Over the evening there were a remarkable NINE maximum scores obtained - although none in the last two rounds (perhaps as the beer kicked in?)

 

We stuck to (this year’s) tradition of mini quiz followed by main quiz; the mini quiz was notable for a round set on a 13 year old’s homework! I’d love to know how the scoring on that round went!

 

The eventual winners (Brianstorm) led from start to finish, dropping as many questions in the last round as they did in the previous five rounds combined and finishing with a mighty 136/144 (a satisfying 94.444444% percentage fans!). Look here to see how your team did.

 

So thanks to the organisers, thanks to you for taking part, thanks to the Poet for being our venue this year  and we’ll see you all again in 2008.

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