Horrifying quizzing
Oct. 29th, 2017 10:56 pmNot particularly surprised to discover today's quiz had a strong Halloween theme, but I was surprised to discover quite how much I knew about horror films and novels. After a mixed bag warm-up round, we were dropped into a series of questions about zombies — which, thanks to Mira Grant's Newsflesh novels, was a walk in the park.
Towards the end of the second round A, exhausted by lack of sleep and frustrated at the questions, asked Yorkshire Nick whether the entire quiz was about zombies. There was a pause while he consulted the questions before answering, "Yes, there's a round on vampires and one about Harry Potter..." A's groan could be heard clear across the pub!
The round on vampires was pretty straight-forward, and the round on Harry Potter involved identifying famous British actors who'd starred in the films based on other facts about their lives. Partway through the round, Yorkshire — clearly a serious HP buff — came up with a cunning plan to try to hold us back and bring the other teams on: he made us name the role each of the actors had played in the films.
At the end of the round, we swapped score sheets as usual and marked each other. We swapped back with one of the other regulars — a couple who are there most weeks — and Yorkshire went round asking people for their scores. He worked his way around towards us, going to the team we'd swapped with first. They told him they'd got 14. He told them they'd done well and he was very impressed. They said, "It's not enough... We know what's coming!" Sure enough, when he asked us for our score, we told him we'd got twenty out of twenty. His response? "Bugger! And I can say that this week, because it's my last week as quizmaster..."
Towards the end of the second round A, exhausted by lack of sleep and frustrated at the questions, asked Yorkshire Nick whether the entire quiz was about zombies. There was a pause while he consulted the questions before answering, "Yes, there's a round on vampires and one about Harry Potter..." A's groan could be heard clear across the pub!
The round on vampires was pretty straight-forward, and the round on Harry Potter involved identifying famous British actors who'd starred in the films based on other facts about their lives. Partway through the round, Yorkshire — clearly a serious HP buff — came up with a cunning plan to try to hold us back and bring the other teams on: he made us name the role each of the actors had played in the films.
At the end of the round, we swapped score sheets as usual and marked each other. We swapped back with one of the other regulars — a couple who are there most weeks — and Yorkshire went round asking people for their scores. He worked his way around towards us, going to the team we'd swapped with first. They told him they'd got 14. He told them they'd done well and he was very impressed. They said, "It's not enough... We know what's coming!" Sure enough, when he asked us for our score, we told him we'd got twenty out of twenty. His response? "Bugger! And I can say that this week, because it's my last week as quizmaster..."