Agoraphobics Out!

The title of the post is actually the name that was chosen for our quiz team this week courtesy of the every witty Dave Sowden. For those of you who are somewhat puzzled, agoraphobia is the fear of being out in the open. Thus the wickedness of the title. Get it? Well, oh nevermind.

Anyhow, it was another good night, with the usual full team - Dave, Marty, Keith Prince and myself. Besides the weekly News and Pot Luck rounds, we were faced with 4-letter answers (all answers are four letters), History and Geography and a picture round featuring Movie Posters. We threw our joker in on Movie Posters based on Marty's confidence that the picture rounds are usually very easy (particularly the movie ones) - Keith and myself readily agreeing with him on that point.

We got off to a fantastic start with scores of 10, 9 and 9 respectively on the first three rounds. I was quite happy to nail the answer to the question "what is the only movie that is 4 letters long to win the Best Picture Oscar" - the others had guessed Crash and Rocky respectively when I pulled "Gigi" out of the hat. Gigi was a late 1950s movie, so definitely more of Dave and Keith's generation than mine.

A good joker round would nail it for us, and thankfully we had chosen well. Marty and Dave did the round separately from Keith and myself before we compared answers and we had a match on 9 out of 10 of the answers, with all of us unsure of the same one. But me and Marty both guessed that is looked like the poster for Tron, and that turned out correct for a maximum 20 on that round.

With a 5 point lead going into the final round, we scored a 7 (it could have been lower) and still managed a pretty comfortable win with a total of 55 points. If we had scored a full 10 in the Pot Luck we would have set a new record for points total (58). The elusive perfect 60 remains just within our grasp. On a personal note, I have decided to keep a record of my Old Brown Shoe pub quiz performances on this blog.

It turned out to be a very good evening thanks to the two free beers we won as part of the first place prize (along with all the dosh). It got even better for me when Keith Prince left without bringing his beers home with him - it meant a mild ethical dilemma for me (if you leave your beers behind does that mean it is a free for all) which was quickly resolved by my drinking them. Good times indeed.