The Trophy for the winners
Heads down for round 1
Time for tea already?
Lots of baking to eat here
Not long before we all queue
Back to thinking
No discussion. Question master decision is final !
A lot of discussion here
Jack Hutcheson collects the Smart Alec Trophy on behalf of Team Endeavor
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| | | Quiz night - 8th May 2013 |
Report by Jim Paterson
Seven
teams took to the floor for the Quiz night on Wednesday 8th May. With
teams from the churches in Penicuik lined up under starters orders the
action began. With team names like Mungo Top Cats, Bluebell Girls,
Famous Five, United Front, Misfits, J-Highs and Endeavor we were going
to see a wide selection of answers. Six rounds of ten questions each
round tested and teased each team to work out the correct answer. At
stake was the winners trophy, the Smart Alec teddy bear.
 Gordon
Macdonald acted as quiz master, assisted by Agnes Ovenstone keeping the scores, and took to the microphone with the
first round of the evening, General Knowledge. The first question, Who
became president of the USA in 1963? had everyone scratching their
heads as John F Kennedy seemed the obvious choice. But when was JFK
assassinated? Of course it was 22nd Novemeber 1963, a date many of us
will remember seeing the news if not the actual date. So who succeeded
him. The answer was Lyndon B Johnson. Well that sorted the brain boxes
out. Fortunately the inventor of the lightning conductor was more
straight forward. Even I remember Benjamin Franklin and his kite flying
in a storm. How many rings in the Olympic Games symbols, and what do
they stand for put us right back into a muddle. Most remembered
it was 5 rings but what they represented confused many, with colour of
competing nations flags being one. Wrong, they represent the five
continents. After the ten questions we swapped papers for marking and
moved on to history.
 An
easy starter for the History section, which most everyone worked out, Name the famous
piece of art that depicts the Norman conquest of England? The hardest
part was getting the spelling correct, namely the Bayeux Tapestry. Two
questions in this section were real teasers, What is the oldest
political party in Britain? and Which part of the British Isles was the
kingdom of Rheged in? The former was a guess between Whigs and
Conservatives, the latter being correct, formed in 1834. Where was
Rheged? Sounded like Wales or Ireland, but neither, it was
Scotland, named after King Urien Rheged.
 Only
one round left before we stop for refreshments, this time Agnes
Ovenstones favourite subject, Film and TV. We all knew there would be
at least a 'googly', to coin a cricketing phrase, or two to try and
catch us out. Why did The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, make history
in 1927? was the easy sucker question which we all knew as the first
talking picture. But Which American directed the controversial film The
Last Temptation of Christ? had people thinking of Mel Gibson, but that
was The Passion of Christ. The Temptation was Martin Scorsese. We
needed the kids around to answer What film are the characters Sid,
Manfred and Diago in? Ice Age was not on all our must see film lists.
Team
Endeavor were top of the league as we stopped for a welcome break. The
ladies of St. Mungo's had been busy baking earlier that afternoon and a
great selection of cakes was available with tea or coffee.
Fully
refreshed we stared the final three rounds, beginning with Animals.
What is another name for a guinea pig, and what is the name for a
collection of frogs? threw us in at the deep end. I would never have
guessed a Cavy was a guinea pig, nor an 'army' of frogs. Do you know
what a lutra-lutra is? I certainly didn't. An otter to you and
me. As to what kind of animal always gives birth to same sex
twins? Sheep seemed to be the popular answer, but as usual it was
wrong. Would you have guessed an armadillo?
Geography in the
shape of 'Places' was our next round. Some of us felt confident with the
opener, What nation’s treasures include the Sistine Chapel?
Vatican State or City seemed easy. Roll on if they are all like this.
But not likely with questions like What Canadian city’s name
means “muddy water”? Why Winnipeg I had not a clue.
Actually it comes from the Indian Cree for muddy waters. What’s
the only South American country that has both a Pacific and a Caribbean
coast, had us all scrabbling to remember our atlas knowledge. Colombia
was not the coutry that jumped to mind for many teams.
 No
church quiz night would be complete without questions on the
Bible. This should have been straight forward, but there are a
lot of tricky parts to catch the unwary out, like What collective name
is given to the first five books of the Bible? and Who gave Jesus the
loaves and fishes? The first 5 books are known as the Pentateuch, from
the Greek meaning five scrolls. Well of course. We had just completed
the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 at Messy Church, but we nearly fell
into the Philip and Andrew answer, which of course was wrong. it being
a small boy who appeared with a basket of five loaves and two fishes.
At
the final whistle the scores were tallied up and team Endeavor with
members from St. Mungo's topped the league with 55 points, a clear 6
points ahead of second place J-Highs.
It
was a great night
that made us all think and have a bit of fun at the same time. Over
£90 was raised from ticket sales for church funds. Must
start to read my encyclopedia before the next quiz night.
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