Follwing a conversation at Aidy’s, The Barber Shop in Ruddington…
Saw this bit of graffiti the other day on a road sign for Shaw Street, Ruddington…
Another night of abysmal failure at the Victoria Tavern Pub Quiz.
The quiz consists of 25 questions. Every answer sheet is different - there are 25 spaces (in a 5 by 5 grid) to write your answers, but the boxes are numbered 1 to 25 in a different order on each answer sheet. As the answers are called out, the first person to get a line of 5 correct answers in any direction, or all 4 corners, wins. A bit like bingo. The prize is 8 pints of beer.
The lowest score gets to “play your cards right”, another game where you guess whether the next card in a series of playing cards is higher or lower than the previous card, until you get through all the cards. You can win a kitty of cash for that.
There is also a raffle for every contestant, and the prize is selected by the winner from a number of unmarked envelopes. Tonight, the winner got a meal for two at a restaurant.
We lost all three games.
But… our raffle ticket had the word “AR5E” on it, so every cloud has a silver lining, as they say.
Last Monday (16th April 2007), Dr Stu and I won the pub quiz at The Victoria Tavern, Ruddington, thanks to our encyclopedic knowledge of current affairs, history, science and the arts (and the fact that there was only one other team).
The prize was a mighty 8 pints of their finest lager beer, redeemable by presenting the following voucher.
Dr Stu’s facts may be random and uninteresting, but they certainly come in handy. We just need to remember that the missing word from the film “Seven Brides for Seven _______” is not sisters…
