Debbie Does Dallas
Our team stakes out its square foot of territory in front of the bar. We do pretty well on the first round, although we fail to guess what Radio 4 listeners chose as the best invention ever in 2004. We spend ages trying to think what sort of an invention ageing middle-class fuddy-duddies would think was particular fine, and we come very close to writing down ‘bicycle’. For some reason we put something else, and of course the right answer was bicycle. We do know, though, that the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation sued Youtube.com, and we find ourselves in a promising fourth position.
OJ Simpson is back to haunt us this week. We’re asked who was considered for Terminator before Schwarzenegger got the role, and I tell everyone about Ivan’s ‘Ghost’ debacle from a few weeks ago as we write down Sylvester Stallone. Everyone else in the pub writes the same thing, and everyone is aghast to be told it was OJ, but no-one is quite as outraged as I am.
The beer round eludes us this week, but we’re still in the running for the main quiz. After round three we’re in second, no less, with four points to make up if we are to claim the top spot. But even though we know which football club plays its home games in Europe and most of its away games in Asia (Istanbul’s Galatasaray), and we can name 7 out of the 10 football people knighted since the war, and we can even name fucking OJ fucking Simpson’s proposed recent book, we end up in joint third. A tiebreak about the number of nuclear power stations in the word is required to determine who’s best out of us and the Ian Woan Memorial Team this week, and we narrowly win it to take home a massive £1.50 each.
Evil Patrick’s number comes up for the fourth week in a row. This is becoming more than suspicious.
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