Village Quiz

Last week, we entered into the annual quiz in one of the local villages, along with Herself’s mum and partner. (Now they’ve moved to the area, and in fact to the village in question)

It has to be said, we’re not bad on quizzes in general – we won the Spring one in our own village earlier this year, and came second in the Hallowe’en one last year, and won a couple of times at the pub quiz in Bracknell – so it’s something I don’t mind doing, and can be quite fun.

What we didn’t know until we got there last week though, was that the “prize” for winning this one was to do the questions for next year’s quiz. Now admittedly this could be quite fun, but at the same time well, we’ve got enough commitments at the moment anyway, and adding in the extra for doing about a hundred questions would perhaps be the straw that broke the back.

So all through the quiz, we were joking that we’d aim for not-quite winning. For the first half of the quiz, we were actually in the lead, which was a bit of a worry.

Still, by the end after a few mistakes of having two answers and opting for the wrong one, it turned out that we came…

Second

Not intentionally – if it hadn’t been for those mistakes we’d have won by about three points – but all the same, it was amusing to have ended up in exactly the position we’d been joking about throughout. Anyone listening in would’ve thought it was rigged…