Kara Bloody Danvers

Calm down. I know what you’ve been wanting to ask since Thursday night, and I’ll tell you the answer now. Yes, thanks, we did win on Thursday evening at the rugby club. I will say a little more about this in a moment. All of which means that everything hangs on what happens this coming Thursday evening.

Everything? Well, everything, and nothing. Everything because it is the last quiz I’m going to be playing in this month. I came back to social quizzing at the start of September 2021. In all that time, I have not yet lost a quiz. So yes, the whole uneaten year hinges on this one quiz. So that’s everything. Nothing? Yes, nothing because suppose we do win? So what? If we lose, then it doesn’t mean all of the other quizzes in the last 12 months count for nothing.

Coming back to Thursday night’s quiz, once we saw what the handout was, we had the feeling that this was going to be our night again. We were given the alter-egos of 25 superheroes and villains. Dan and Adam pulled out a couple of corkers, and between us all we felt that we had a pretty good chance of a full house. As it was, we ended up with twenty four. What was the one that messed us up? I’ll tell you. Kara Danvers. Now, you have to bear in mind that the handout itself had a couple of bloomers on it – Oswald Copperpot rather than Oswald Cobblepot for the Penguin being one example. So all of us immediately thought this was another mistake and that it was actually meant to be Carol Danvers – the Marvel Captain Marvel. The answer? Well, it’s Supergirl. It is too, but none of us knew this. I knew she was named Kara-El to Superman’s Kal-El, but that was the extent of my knowledge.

All of which illustrates something about the frustrating nature of quizzes. When we look back on the handout, are we congratulating ourselves over some of the brilliant answers we came up with – for example Adam or Dan knew that Britt Reid is the alter-ego of the Green Hornet? No, we’re frustrated about Kara bloody Danvers. That’s quizzing for you.