"Universally Challenged" - Quiz night

Sarah did an AMAZING job organising the quiz night yesterday. It was a total success, the room was full, everyone had a great time, the pub takings trebled and the ladies almost drank the pub out of dry white wine, so if you go along to the Garden House tonight it will need to red instead. The in-house quizmaster was absolutely brilliant, very entertaining, sporting an impressive handlebar moustache. There were 12 teams of up to 8:- the "Oldies" started badly but put on a late spurt, the "Universally Challenged" were the dark horses and "E for Idiots" fulfilled their expectations. There was a special individual prize for guessing how many baked beans are contained in 24 cans and somewhat amazingly 3 people from different tables all came up with exactly the same number - it wasn’t the correct number (9,600 as determined by our appointed baked bean counter) but it was the nearest. This was totally unforeseen and a tie-break question was needed urgently. "How many kilometres will be covered in this year's Tour de France?" enquired the QM. The winner was the nearest with 2,100km (a gross underestimate as the real answer is 3,360) and she took the prize envelope.  Michelle had also devised a fiendish supplementary test to occupy the contestants as they arrived which was to build a tall tower using only spaghetti and jelly babies. Some of them were beautifully engineered and the winning tower reached almost 2 metres tall!

Spaghetti and jelly baby tower - under construction

Many thanks to all of you who attended. All the raffle tickets sold out so thank-you to all who bought tickets and to those who have supported the ride.

The quiz night was a lot of fun and raised another £590 for the William Wates Memorial Trust.