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mopti asked me to come along to a table quiz on Thursday night. Being a fan of such things I agreed. The quiz was heavily biased towards equality legislation, mostly Irish, and other equality-related things, on account of it being run by, or for (I wasn't clear on that bit) the Equality Studies Alumni. The bias in questions didn't matter too much as a large number of people present were in some way associated with Equality Studies, the Equality Authority, or both.
And so. Our first win for the night came during the picture round, where we were unable to identify Joan Harbison; you can't see it in this photo, but my suggestion that the unidentified person looked like "Clinton In Drag" was deemed sufficiently apt and amusing that we put it on our answer sheet. And thus we got a prize for "most interesting answer" (one of the other tables also got a prize for their answer, which I missed).
We ran second or third for most of the quiz, while table 13 pulled in high scores on every round and raced off into the distance. Until they fumbled it, and suddenly we were leading the pack. The final round brought us a good five points clear of everyone else, and we quietly congratulated ourselves on our win. Exceptmopti, who was grinning from ear to ear and generally looking rather smug.
Three teams had tied for second place on 37 points, and so there was a tiebreaker round, and then the prizes were announced. Table 4, Table 1, Table 13.
Wait, wait, wait.
What about Table 5? (at this pointmopti underwent an astounding transition from "smug winner" to "indignant winner denied the spoils", which pretty much set the rest of us off giggling). We, ah, politely enquired What Exactly Happened, whereupon it was revealed to us that they, er, were so intent on the three-way tie that they completely failed to notice the outright winners. Er. And they'd already given out the prizes. So, ah. Yes. Hmm.
In the end they told us to pick a bottle each from the selection that had been put up for the raffle, which was fair enough. Yvonne had intended giving back any cash prize, and had also donated some of the chocolate we'd won for the Clinton answer, which is presumably why the Fates smiled on her not once but twice during the raffle. She eventually agreed to take back the bar of chocolate she'd donated.
Of course, I will continue to mockmopti for his highly competitive spirit for some time to come.
mopti asked me to come along to a table quiz on Thursday night. Being a fan of such things I agreed. The quiz was heavily biased towards equality legislation, mostly Irish, and other equality-related things, on account of it being run by, or for (I wasn't clear on that bit) the Equality Studies Alumni. The bias in questions didn't matter too much as a large number of people present were in some way associated with Equality Studies, the Equality Authority, or both.And so. Our first win for the night came during the picture round, where we were unable to identify Joan Harbison; you can't see it in this photo, but my suggestion that the unidentified person looked like "Clinton In Drag" was deemed sufficiently apt and amusing that we put it on our answer sheet. And thus we got a prize for "most interesting answer" (one of the other tables also got a prize for their answer, which I missed).
We ran second or third for most of the quiz, while table 13 pulled in high scores on every round and raced off into the distance. Until they fumbled it, and suddenly we were leading the pack. The final round brought us a good five points clear of everyone else, and we quietly congratulated ourselves on our win. Except
mopti, who was grinning from ear to ear and generally looking rather smug.Three teams had tied for second place on 37 points, and so there was a tiebreaker round, and then the prizes were announced. Table 4, Table 1, Table 13.
Wait, wait, wait.
What about Table 5? (at this point
mopti underwent an astounding transition from "smug winner" to "indignant winner denied the spoils", which pretty much set the rest of us off giggling). We, ah, politely enquired What Exactly Happened, whereupon it was revealed to us that they, er, were so intent on the three-way tie that they completely failed to notice the outright winners. Er. And they'd already given out the prizes. So, ah. Yes. Hmm.In the end they told us to pick a bottle each from the selection that had been put up for the raffle, which was fair enough. Yvonne had intended giving back any cash prize, and had also donated some of the chocolate we'd won for the Clinton answer, which is presumably why the Fates smiled on her not once but twice during the raffle. She eventually agreed to take back the bar of chocolate she'd donated.
Of course, I will continue to mock
mopti for his highly competitive spirit for some time to come.
