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Film and TV Quiz 2007
20th March 2007
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-
Another slight change to the format saw us with only six rounds of ten questions
instead of our traditional eight -
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-
So, onto the quiz itself:-
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!
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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 -







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

It was a dark and stormy night -
However, I do know that 14 teams of the finest brains in that fine public house competed
once again for the much-
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-
See how your team scored here -
It just remains to say thanks to all who participated and helped. With entry fees,
prize draws, our patented “buy-
General Knowledge Quiz -

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 -
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 -
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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