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Music Quiz 17 November 2011
It was a dark and stormy night... Oh no, wait a minute this is the warmest November
for many a long year and it’s been dry as toast, so that’s the traditional start
to the report gone... So you’ll have to make do with Nick’s non-
Thirteen teams (plus one 1-
Winners of the quiz and the famous Golden Brain were 'IQ -
Aside from one chilling, ghostly incident where one of team's answer paper seemed
to vanish into thin air after being collected, and a couple of occasions where mysterious
drunken voices could be heard divulging answers slightly too audibly, the night ran
like clockwork. When everything was totalled up, the evening was found to have raised
£540 for Cancer Research UK, so a huge thank you to everyone for their support and
we hope to see you back next year, flexing those mental-
Nick Taylor
November 2011
Photos of the prizewinners can be found on our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/City-
You can see the results here (but you’ll need some form of that Microsoft spreadsheety thing, available at all good software stores, and some rubbish ones as well.)
Music Quiz 23 August 2011
After two abortive attempts the annual Music Quiz finally took place Tuesday 23rd August. Audience apathy had scuppered attempt one and a combination of an unpaid electric bill and avaricious landlord (allegedly) put paid to attempt two. Surely nothing was going to stop us this time, was it?
The Music Quiz gods appeared not to be smiling benignly at us when we arrived at
the new venue to set up. The Assembly is a nice bar in the modern style and was rapidly
filling up with 15 eager teams when we encountered our first problem. No sound. Now
you may not have attended one of our music quizzes but you would probably realise
that sound is quite an important element of such a quiz. Indeed I can reveal that
the organisers had committed 114 musical extracts to disc in the expectation that
the punters would be able to hear them and attempt to answer questions on them. A
variety of cables were tried in a variety of sockets appending to the appropriately
named DJ “coffin” that was taking up one end of the bar. None of the combinations
extracted so much as a squeak from the loudspeakers. Peter Inwood (our illustrious
Quiz Committee Chairman) then had a stroke of inspiration when he decided to by-
Surely nothing else could go wrong now .............
The bar manager went off to look for a microphone and we started turning our attention to starting the quiz and getting some beer in (not necessarily in that order). Sadly, both were to prove tricky. First the computerised till crashed which meant that for about 20 minutes the staff couldn’t sell anyone a drink. This also meant that the aforesaid bar manager spent 20 minutes looking for what had become unplugged from her bar’s computer system rather than our microphone which therefore meant the quiz didn’t start either. Once no quick fix was found for the errant tills the staff started taking orders and writing everything down on bits of paper but there was still no sign of the lady of the mic for another 10 minutes or so.
Finally, the tills came back to life (we suspect somebody turned them off and back on again) and the holy grail of public address (the mic) appeared. We were ready.
Even then we weren’t out of the woods though. The holy grail turned out to be more
of a poisoned chalice as it was a wireless grail with no clear line of sight to the
transmitter (or digital Merlin to carry on the Arthurian references) in the back
room. Thus the merest turn of the head by our announcer or a member of the bar staff
moving behind the bar caused the signal to drop out and anyone with memories that
go back far enough to the 70s comedian Norman Collier will know what happens then.
Mid-
Despite these inconveniences, the quiz itself was well received and the new marathon “60 second rounds” after each of the first three regular rounds went down well too. During the second half a round where two pieces of music had to be connected to get the name of a tube station got the quizzing juices of the contesting teams well and truly flowing.
Anyway, Havers and Jed (plus Geoff with the marathon and score updates) soldiered on and we got to the last round eventually albeit with Jed going increasingly strange shades of purple with each new piece of microphone frustration encountered. As has become a tradition with this quiz the last round was of dubious taste. In the past we have done “appropriate songs being performed by people who have died” and “songs you wouldn’t want to hear on hospital radio”, epitomised by Elvis singing “Return to Sender” for the former and “The First Cut is the Deepest” for the latter. This year’s last round was called “Solo” and I won’t reveal the theme, except to say that it involved an “activity” one generally does on one’s own, but as the teams began to fall in, a great deal of laughter rang out in the Assembly. Thanks to all who took part and helped us to raise £618 for the charity.
Report by Geoff and Nick Taylor Pictures on our Facebook page Full Excel spreadsheety results here
Sports Quiz -
On a light-
As early as round 1 in fact, when no fewer than 7 of the 10 teams scored maximum
marks. Raggy Arse Rovers were the only ones to find the going tough at this stage,
and immediately found themselves 6 points adrift at the foot of the table. They
improved in round 2, although they fell still further behind, as everybody else did
much the same as on round 1. Joining the maximum scorers were QBE, while Norfolk-
Round 3 was even worse (or better), as 8 teams scored the full 20 points. These teams were either stuffed with mega quiz brains ... or else we'd made the questions too easy. Raggy Arse Rovers continued their improvement, while On Your Marks, Get Set, Stop joined the maximum score club for the first time.
Then came round 4... A real sort-
5 more maxima in round 6 saw the leader board pretty much unchanged, but a minor
shock emerged in the penultimate round. Yes, round 7 featured plenty (6 in all)
of 20s once again, but the Jengas weren't among them, & the gap at the top closed
to just 3 points. Was there a comeback on the cards? A similar pattern in the final
round saw only 2 maximum scores from QBE & Barearselona (who were judged to have
the best sports-
The Jengas were in no mood to let things slip at this stage however, being one of
the 6 teams who missed out on a maximum marathon score by a single point, preserving
their 2 point advantage & giving them the title, just pipping the best efforts of
Unlikely Scenarios. The scoring going down the table was then pretty evenly spaced,
except for the Raggies, who never got into gear & found themselves 35 points adrift
in last place -
And the Raggies could feel a little dischuffed. On another occasion, a score of
136 out of 200 (68% no less) would have seen them well up the leader board. When
you consider that the team immediately above them, Norfolk-
A good time was had by all, & the princely sum of £500 (approx.) was raised for Cancer Research UK. What better way to spend an evening?
To see the full results click here -
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Winners
1st Rock Around the CRUK (Japanese Import) 178 pts
2nd It’s Only Rick ‘n Roll But We Like It 169 pts
3rd Simply the Second Best 168 pts
Raffle 1st prize: Steve Palmer
Best Team Name: The Three Degrees of Madness