The Eagle Has Landed

It was back to the Old Brown Shoe for me after a bit of a hiatus. Our team name in full was actually The Eagle Has Landed (and Ronaldo is a wanker). The first part was in reference to Jason, an American colleague of mind at the institute whom I invited down for the quiz. It was just as well that we invited Jason, given Dave was still in England on holiday and Vicky not present as a result.

The bracketed section was in response to the protracted rumours that Cristiano Ronaldo will move away from Old Trafford to Real Madrid or any of the myriad clubs keen to have his services. Keith and I are Man Utd fans, but we both agree that all it would take for all this transfer speculation to be quashed would be for Ronaldo to come out and pledge his future to the club. His wishy washy statement that he would stay - for now - but he would love to play in Spain in the future smacks of nothing more than a mercenary attempt to play the market to get even more money that he is already making (a rather substantial 120,000 pounds a week).

But back to the quiz. We started with two decent rounds of 8 points, despite blowing a news question on the Chelsea Flower Show which we really should have got. But we were quite stunned to find ourselves a good 4 points behind because another team scored a perfect 20 in the first two rounds. That team - the Pussycat's Return was having an absolute stormer of a quiz, and by the end of three rounds, they had scored a perfect 40 points (after a full 10 on their joker). At that point it looked like our record points total of 57 was seriously under threat, let alone our chances of winning this week's edition of the quiz. We had scored a ten in the third round - our joker round - as well, but that still left us four points behind.

That lead was narrowed by a single point after the Pussycats finally showed signs of being human by dropping a point in the fourth round to our perfect 10 points. That left us heading into the Pot Luck round needing them to score only seven, assuming we could manage another perfect round. In the end, in a bugger of a round, both teams scored a respectable seven points, meaning that we lost to a phenomenal total of 56 points - just one off our very own record.