Let's get Quizzical!

The time has rolled around for our annual big huge company Quiz night - the Ultimate Irish Life Quiz - in aid of our Staff Charities

 

Here is me wearing my purple Staff Charities committee member polo shirt.  I just adore this shirt!

 

The night was a great success - as it always is.  Our quizmaster is a brilliant MC who runs through the questions and answers at a nice pace. And a huge part of the night is his brilliant method of awarding extra points!  If you get up on a chair and sing a song this gets you ten or so points. If you can get everyone singing along with you then this could be worth as much as twenty.  And if you get boo-ed well that might be worth twenty or so also!

 

New for this year we arranged for pizzas to be delivered  - extra large, and one for every table! The novelty of a big load of pizzas arriving was great.  Plus from an organisational perspective this worked so much better than any other food option we have done in the past: in terms of service and quantity of food for everyone. I think this is something we will be doing again in the future as everyone really seemed happy with it

Here's just 25% of our the total pizza delivery so you can imagine what the full order looked like!

 

Table Quiz!

Table Quiz's are very popular in Ireland.  Apparently they originated in the United Kingdom around 1970 where they are know as pub quiz's.

 

The basic premise of it is entry of teams or "tables" of 4 for approx €10 a head, 10 rounds made up of 10 questions, one quizmaster and a couple of people correcting the answer sheets.

 

Last night  I attended our Kayak Club's annual table quiz which was in aid of the Anne Sullivan Foundation.  It was a lot of fun. 

 

With the advent of mobile phones and wi-fi etc it can be hard to stop the "cheaters" so at the beginning of the night we were handed a plastic bag and all of our team members had to put our phones in the bag, tie a knot in it and place it in the middle of the table! 

 

Here are some of the questions from the quiz.  Answers down at the bottom of the page :-)

1. What are the ingredients of a Black Velvet cocktail?

2. What film contained the song "Raindrops keep falling on my head"?

3. What recent astronaut recently sang in space before arriving back to earth?

4. When was the last Concorde flight?

5. What game is played to Harvard rules?

6. Name two sports done on a piste.

 

Hooray!

Our team won!

 

 

 

We won these very fancy (and heavy!) little candle holders.

Hmmm.  I can't exactly see these on my mantlepiece!!! 



 

Answers!

1. What are the ingredients of a Black Velvet cocktail?

Guinness & Champagne (never tried one - have you?!)

 

2. What film contained the song "Raindrops keep falling on my head"?

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

 

3. What recent astronaut recently sang in space before arriving back to earth?

Chris Hadfield

 

4. When was the last Concorde flight?

2003

 

5. What game is played to Harvard rules?

American Football

 

6. Name two sports done on a piste.

Skiing/snowboarding and Fencing

 

So!

How did you do out of 6 on the above?