Archive for August 2008

Greetings! We are representatives of the estate of the late President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia, and we have an interesting business proposal for you

Aug 19, 2008 in Pub quizzes

Our team name tonight is Stu’s idea. We like it a lot but feel that Stu should have the honour of writing it out on our team sheet. By the end of the night he’s just writing “Greetings!” and the quiz setters have long since stopped reading it all out anyway.
We are six [...]

Leaving on a midnight tank to Georgia

Aug 12, 2008 in Pub quizzes

After last week’s horrific placing we’re hoping for better this week. Things look good for the first two rounds, but then we collapse spectacularly, scoring just five points in total over rounds two and three. Once again, all our hopes are pinned on the snowball.
There is 600 pounds in the pot. The [...]

Sleepless in the Saddle 2008

Aug 10, 2008 in Endurance

Six weeks after the muddy horrors of Mountain Mayhem, we were back on the race track, returning to Catton Park in Derbyshire for our second go at Sleepless In The Saddle. Last year we’d covered 24 laps, finishing about two thirds of the way down the field in our class. With 36 hours [...]

Morgan Freeman’s deep impact

Aug 05, 2008 in Pub quizzes

Tonight the team is me, Oli and my friend Eldrik, who knows lots about tennis and mountain bikes. In all the time I’ve been coming to the Prince of Wales I think there have been two questions about tennis, and none about mountain bikes, but never mind. We start off by correctly guessing [...]