Pub Quiz
2007-12-03
The gaming club I belong to in 'real' life has an annual pub quiz at its Christmas party.
The prize each year is the responsibility for the next year's quiz; generally we have some team rounds then a special tie-break between the members of the winning team to see who gets/has to set the quiz next year.
Last year I was on the winning team and we refused to do the tie-break. Instead we said we'd do a quiz between us, contributing a few questions each. (I think it may also have been that a tie between teams had used up all the questions, and with one of the crazier members in charge we didn't really want to answer the kind of question he had on the top of his head). The leadership of the club clamped down on this, and although I only remember the conversation about only one person being allowed free membership this year (which I hadn't realised was part of the prize anyway) apparently we were told near the time that there could be only one quiz master.
So three weeks before this year's quiz, nobody is really sure who's doing it, and the person who's convinced it's him isn't showing up much. And in any case, most of the potential players didn't really want their questions set by a particularly dappy 17-year-old. So we gathered an emergency session of everyone we could find from the winning team (about half) and picked someone else.
First point of interest was that he did away with the tie-break round. At the beginning he told teams to pick a captain, who would be the one responsible for the next year's quiz should the team win. There followed a nice spread of questions, 'geography with E-numbers', TV & movies, and the obligatory round on roleplaying games. That's why we're in the club, after all.
As a nice touch, he asked who had the second-highest post count on the club forums. It could almost have been a free point for my team - I run those forums and the person in question was in my team - but in the post-match analysis it turned out that one of the other teams had got it because they heard her squeal “It's me!”
Still, we won, I got the quiz for next year (which has been something of an ambition, as sad as that may be) and there'll definitely be a question about the forums just to embarrass those who ought to be reading and aren't.
The prize each year is the responsibility for the next year's quiz; generally we have some team rounds then a special tie-break between the members of the winning team to see who gets/has to set the quiz next year.
Last year I was on the winning team and we refused to do the tie-break. Instead we said we'd do a quiz between us, contributing a few questions each. (I think it may also have been that a tie between teams had used up all the questions, and with one of the crazier members in charge we didn't really want to answer the kind of question he had on the top of his head). The leadership of the club clamped down on this, and although I only remember the conversation about only one person being allowed free membership this year (which I hadn't realised was part of the prize anyway) apparently we were told near the time that there could be only one quiz master.
So three weeks before this year's quiz, nobody is really sure who's doing it, and the person who's convinced it's him isn't showing up much. And in any case, most of the potential players didn't really want their questions set by a particularly dappy 17-year-old. So we gathered an emergency session of everyone we could find from the winning team (about half) and picked someone else.
First point of interest was that he did away with the tie-break round. At the beginning he told teams to pick a captain, who would be the one responsible for the next year's quiz should the team win. There followed a nice spread of questions, 'geography with E-numbers', TV & movies, and the obligatory round on roleplaying games. That's why we're in the club, after all.
As a nice touch, he asked who had the second-highest post count on the club forums. It could almost have been a free point for my team - I run those forums and the person in question was in my team - but in the post-match analysis it turned out that one of the other teams had got it because they heard her squeal “It's me!”
Still, we won, I got the quiz for next year (which has been something of an ambition, as sad as that may be) and there'll definitely be a question about the forums just to embarrass those who ought to be reading and aren't.
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