I was saddened on two occasions this week to hear that two of my nearest and dearest have been given grief over quizzes that they’ve compiled.
My son Mike often plays in a quiz on a Tuesday night – I’ve
accompanied him once or twice when other team members haven’t been able to make
it. Like our quiz in the rugby club, this is compiled by volunteers from the
teams who play in it. Mike’s team are by far the most regular winners of the
quiz, and as you probably won’t be too surprised to hear this has created a lot
of resentment amongst the others. I’m sure it doesn’t help that they are
younger than any of the other teams by some degree. Mike’s team were compiling
the quiz and Mike did the sport round. Well, such was the barracking and the
complaining that the questions (which were perfectly fair in my opinion) were
too hard, that Mike ended up cutting the round short by two questions. Then a
friend, who was guesting for the evening was told by a couple of people by
another team that Mike’s team were ‘the team who always cheat’. Finally, the
last turd in the waterpipe, the organiser asked at the end for volunteers for
the rota because he was going on holiday. Mike’s team volunteered, only to be
told – I’ll have to get back to you , lads. I don’t think they’re going to go
back there.
Does this kind of behaviour come as much of a surprise? No,
not really. A similar thing was the reason why I stopped going out on a Sunday.
But my heart goes out to the lads in the team.
Then, on Thursday night it was Dan’s turn as Question
Master in the club. Dan produced another very good quiz, the highlight of which
was another superb music round. This one was solo piano versions of popular
hits from the decades. Great round. I mean, you’d have to go a very long way to
beat his first string quartets round, but it was still a great and enjoyable
round. And I have to say it, some of those songs sounded terrific with just the
piano. Now, I always used to say that nobody ever complains that the questions
are too easy. Well, that shows just what I know. The questions were not too
easy. But after the break we had a couple of high scoring rounds one after
another. That was when the carping started. It’s one particular team who were
guilty, the same team who were so bloody rude the first tme Jess did it last
year. You know the sort of thing ‘Oh, you’re taking pity on us, are you?’. It
would not, in all honesty, make it any better if they ever provided a question
master themselves, but they don’t. One should always try to be calm and
reasonable when commenting on other people’s behaviour, so bearing this in mind
I would like to call them a bunch of arseholes.
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