I usually don't enjoy quiz nights here in England, because I know nothing of football, cricket or rugby (nor do I have a burning desire to) and there is a large gap in my general knowledge of English history and geography. (Although that is improving with everyone of my children's homework assignments that I have to help with.)
But I felt obliged to attend last night, as we are committed to the school's activities and this was a fundraising event.
Answer I was proud of:
Giving a good guess on something I knew barely anything about: the film called The Great Escape. It's one of those films that your spouse will insist is a classic, but I view as just another war movie, so I wasn't really paying attention to the film's ending which described how many soldiers actually escaped in the end. Something was telling me three for a reason and I was right! (Unfortunately, I deferred to the men at the table and they got it wrong.)
Answer I knew I should have insisted on:
The question was Sago vs. Sarko, what is it? The French Presidential elections, of course. But Orest insisted I put "prime ministerial" instead and we lost the point. Aaarrggghh!
Answers where I was no help at all:
British sports, of course. And two of the music questions really stumped me, but to be fair I'm not a fan of boy groups (Take That) and I don't know all the words to Eleanor Rigby. (Question was "Who picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been?")
Answers on the tip of my tongue:
Who takes the silk? Of course I should have known that since I was at Lincoln's Inn a week ago where they told us that this phrase describes a lawyer being called to the bar. (Luckily someone else at our table knew that one and we got the point.) And the other one was the only tube stop with 6 consonants in a row...which I managed to get after racking my brains: Knightsbridge!
Overall we came 7th out of 12 tables, so not complete morons, but could use a brain brush-up.
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