Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Adventures in the Sandford Quiz - 1

I like regularly occuring aspects of blogs - it means that every so often I have an easy posting to make. Hence the "Comic of the Week" posting on Mondays. Today I've decided to add a second regular update - Adventures in the Sandford Quiz (ASQ).

On Sunday our team of four (Me, Helen and our Sandford based friends Allen and Catherine) won outright the Rose and Crown Quiz by 1/2 a point. It was nailbiting excitement all the way. We decided to pool our £16 winnings and put them towards a meal at the Crediton Tandoori on the weekend before Christmas. Therefore, we now have 3 more quizzes to top up our food-fund. How much will we end up with? Stay tuned to find out.

Here's last Sunday's quiz awards.

Best Crossed Out Answer of the Week: Swede for Turnip (Pre-pumpkin halloween veg.).
The "Where Did that Answer Come From?" Award: Catherine for her answer "Condoms" (Provided free to prisoners this week).
The Glad We Didn't Change It Award: Gary sticking to his guns with The British Empire (Largest ever empire).
The Allen Alexander "Are Your Sure About That?" Award - Allen for "Spandau Ballet" (in answer to the cryptic clue "Picture House Tune". He nearly convinced us Spandau was German slang for Cinema, but luckily inspiration hit and Gary got the correct answer "Roxy Music").

And finally, an episode from Sandford and Area Quizzes greatest hits. This week, a "You Wot???" moment from a sports round at The Lamb.

Question: Where were the 1998 Winter Olympics held?
Quizmaster's Answer: Syria.

Unsuprisingly, everyone got it wrong.

2 comments:

not_2day_galvatron said...

Ah, the joys of quizzing - on my last night back in Devon recently I actually went to the Weatherspoons quiz with my folks and my bro (he sat there in a mood till a question came up regarding the Xbox...). We came a respectable 4th, but were still 6 points off the pace (my Dad insisted on us putting answers for every question in the wipeout round, some idiocy about 'speculating and accumulating' - needless to say we wiped out). The specialist round was on Soup (!) and so my Mum had a ball with that while us boys drank and looked at the floor. Anyway, our 'you what?' question was: 'who released the no. 1 song Billie Jean?'. Answer the question master (mistress?)had on her paper: George Bush senior. Common sense prevailed and it was decided that everyone just got a point (though I got pissed off about the 'link' round, cause I wrote that the link was 'drink' and we didn't get a point because it was 'alcoholic drink' - that's what I MEAN when I say drink...)

Gary said...

So would you have won if you hadn't gone for it in the wipeout round? I'm not sure if families should do the W.Spoon quiz.

And great "You Wot" by the way. Where did G Bush Snr come from?