Lazarus

It was pub quiz night again, and I ended up a bit late after a sojourn over to Borders which was having one of their usual discount sales. I ended up buying 4 books - Hidden Iran by Roy Takeyh, a cloth bound copy of the Mabinogon (Welsh myths), Hew Strachan's biography of Clausewitz's On War, and a book on European History titled The Pursuit of Power, covering the period from 1644-1815 or Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna.

The team name was apt because we hadn't participated in the quiz for the previous two weeks. Not quite coming back from the dead, but definitely a revival of sorts. It was also chosen with Dave's beloved Leeds United in mind - they lost 2-1 at Elland Road in the first leg of the playoffs against Carlisle and need to come back from the dead in the second leg to make the playoff finals.

It was fairly typical fare, with a round on pop music, communications and the 1990s. We chose the 1990s as our joker round, given that the 'decade' categories have usually been kind to us in the past. This one was rather random with 2 questions on computer viruses (surely the 1990s wasn't that boring, I grew up in them!). It was an excellent and very consistent performance overall, with 8s and 9s on most rounds and a safe seven points in the pot luck to round off the win.

And all that without the redoubtable Princey, who was still suffering after surgery on his bum knees. I am told he will be back next week to take part and I do hope he'll make it. I will be loathe to admit it but I am actually starting to miss the grumpy git.

Update: Our team name proved even more well-founded than we realized, when Leeds United scored an injury time winner to progress to the playoff final. Dave Sowden, who had planned a trip back to England anyway, managed to get himself a ticket to the playoff final at Wembley. Sadly Leeds were outplayed by Doncaster and lost.