Yes, I know and I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have kept you waiting so long to let you know how we did in this month’s film quiz in the Gwyn Hall which took place in Wednesday this week. Just to set the scene a little you might recall that we very narrowly lost the last one in February on musicals. That was also the first quiz I’ve lost in the 2020s – not quite so much of a boast as it seems since I didn’t hardly play at all in 2020 or up until August 2021, and even since then for the most part of just been playing in the one quiz a week. Still, we did hope for a win again to keep up our place at the head of the table for this year.
The subject was Oscar winners. As a quiz I did rather enjoy
this one. Wiki challenging for last week’s MM specialist subject on winners of
the 1990s helped on Wednesday as well, and also I was able to supply a number
of answers to old Oscar chestnuts like who’s had the most nominations without
winning. In fact everyone in the team had answers on Wednesday which was great.
I have to be honest, there are times when we go to the movie quiz and I feel
embarrassed because I’m answering so few of them.
Having said that we still had some rounds where we didn’t
do as well as we thought we’d done, and weren’t even sure we were going to be
on the podium, and in fact we felt our best chance of a prize was the spot
prize for coming in fifth. There were well over 20 teams, so it takes a while
to read out all of the scores. Fifth eventually came and went, so our hopes
were not so much about a prize as about being in the top 3. Th and 3rd
went. Then second and that wasn’t us. We’d won, and more than that with a
little bit of daylight between our score and the score of the team in second.
So as hard as the quiz was for us, so it was for all of the other teams.
Next month is from page to screen, so I will let you know
how we did.
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