OK, so they're reading out the final results. There must have been about 11 teams. Personally I don't want to be last, somewhere in the large middle grouping that seems to form at the W'Spoon quiz will be fine. For half the quiz it was only me and Mr Green, outnumbered by most teams by two, sometimes three, to one. Backup arrived midway through an unspectacular sports round in the shape of Mrs P, but at the end it didn't feel like we'd done any better than fine.
After about 5 or 6 teams being read out, we're safe. The way the pub works the quiz is that you do your six rounds and then everyone marks each others at the end. The team we marked got about 38, and we reckon we might have got a couple more than that, so should have saved face.
Still the team names are being read out and we haven't be mentioned. I start to get a bit nervous. The first round was a picture round, one of which was allegedly Ellen Macarthur. I was so Damn adamant that it wasn't her that I chose not to put down an answer. Of course, Ellen Macarthur was the right answer (according to the "quiz"). What if that one point means that we lose out? I begin to picture the shame.
The quiz guy says it's tight - in third place are a team on 40. It's not us. We came second, a point behind the winners.
But wait, all is not lost. Due to a rule change for 2006, the top two teams playoff in a tiebreak to see who will walk off with the jackpot.
The question: "How much did the Will Smith film take at the UK box office in 2005?". Well I couldn't remember hearing much about it, but knowing that average films tend to make anywhere between £10 and £35 million, we reckon a stinker like Hitch would have come in at about £15m.
"One team was very close, the other was way off", says Quizguy. "We had answers of £212m and £15m".
I reckon we've done it.
"The actual takings were £17.5 million."
The pub goes really quiet. The team with the most points after the actual quiz have lost to a small group of youngsters. I don't think anyone's that impressed. But hey, you don't win the Rose and Crown quiz three weeks in a row by worrying about what other teams think of you. Now I can sympathise with the losers: if it was me, I would have been disappointed to have lost on a tiebreak when we were clear winners. But dem de rules. And come on, £212 million!?!
Woohoo, W'Spoon quiz champions and £50 the richer. Result.
4 comments:
Although the quiz purist in me violently disagrees with the introduction of the tiebreak (that is a TRAVESTY comparable to the Sandford joker), nonetheless I must congratulate you, Helen and James. Not only have you won the rather tricky Weth quiz (and without me and John, too!) you have also earned the hatred of yet another group of Devonian pub regulars. Well done!
Still haven't seen the last Curb by the way due to video-related incompetence (not mine), but have bought series 2+3 off Amazon. No need for a social life now!
Catherine
Yay, we won, we rule...as I said, it's so easy when you don't have Catherine holding you back...
Hey Gary, thanks for the kind words on my site and songs....not done posting, just hectic living and travelling lately...by the way, you're site is awesome, will definetly put a link on to it...
kmcgoldrick.blogspot.com
I finally got to see Downfall - I cut out the tempremental middleman that is my video and watched it "live". Very, very good indeed. And now I know how it ended.
I agree that the rule change at the W'Spoons is very bad, but I am SO glad that my arrogance over the Ellen Macarthur picture didn't mean we lost £50.
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