Yeah, I have. To be honest there’s few personal rules that I’ve set for myself that I haven’t broken at one time or another. I’ll try my best to elucidate.
So, if we go back to talking about the quiz in the rugby
club, I returned to playing in it in August of 2021. Before my quizzing lost
weekend I’d taken my turn as Question Master and setter as much as anyone else and
at least once a month. For a lot of that time I would have done it every week
if I’d been allowed. I’ve said in the past that from when I first started
playing in quizzes in 1988 I was a pretty useful quizzer, but that period from
1995 for the next few years, when I’d started putting together quizzes for the
club, that was when I became the quizzer that I was, however good or bad that
might have been. I loved making the quiz as much as I enjoyed playing in it.
But when I came back my attitude was – look, for over 2 decades I did more
quizzes than pretty much anyone else – allowing for the fact that Brian passed
away in 2017 – so let other people do it.
Well, over a few months that changed into I’ll do the New
Year quiz, but not others, and then to I’ll do the New Year Quiz, and if I’m
asked I’ll think about doing an ordinary quiz. Well, I was asked again a couple
of weeks ago, and the quiz is going to be next Thursday evening.
So what’s this personal rule I’ve broken? It’s like this. I
don’t like picture quizzes. I’ve mentioned this before. I just don’t have the
recognition skills for it, and to be honest one blonde haired starlet or musician
looks much the same as any other to me. But – and this is the important thing –
I think that many people who play in the quiz do like picture quizzes. There
are quite a few regular setters who don’t often do picture quizzes now, so when
I do a quiz I really feel that I should have a picture handout. Remember,
dearly beloved, it’s not about what you like when you put a quiz together, it’s
about giving people playing the best evening that you can.
But . . . I was putting the quiz together today and I had
an idea for a cryptic handout. So I did it. No names, no pack drill at the
moment, just in case any of the players are reading this. I did think twice,
bearing in mind that I’m using connections in the quiz as well. I don’t want
the quiz to feel ‘too much like hard work’ for anyone. Well, what the hell, I
can always go back to pictures for the next time . . . if there is a next time.
I have tried to make sure that the questions are fair. I’ll try my best to
explain that.
One of the questions we had in Thursday night’s quiz was “Who
won I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2017” Alright, it’s not unfair as such.
But it’s the kind of question where – bearing in mind that this is only a pub
quiz – I don’t see why you’d think anyone might know the answer to it. It’s
over five years ago, so it’s not what you would call a current question. I
wouldn’t say that it was a particularly notable winner either – I’m sure that Georgia
Toffolo, despite her political views, is a very nice person but come on, she’s
not exactly a household name.
I can feel a rant coming on about the kind of questions that
I really don’t like in quizzes, so I shall stop now.
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