Tonight marked the inaugural Old Brown Shoe versus Turnstyles Challenge Quiz, with a special challenge trophy created for the occasion. The idea was that individual teams would represent their respective pubs and the three highest scoring teams for each pub would count towards the pub's total. The winning pub would be the one with the highest cumulative scores. Of course there would be prizes for the top two individual teams as well.
Given that there were many top-notch teams from the Turnstyles out in force, there was little surprise that the quiz itself was very closely fought. I mean, in all honesty, it takes a certain demented love of quizzing for you to turn out on a Monday night for a pub quiz. But the usual gang - Keith (this time with wife in tow), Dave and Vicky turned out hoping to do the Old Brown Shoe proud.
And we did, with the Shoe winning the face-off rather handily by more than ten points. In the individual team challenge, it was a different story, and we ended up in a tie-break at the end of regulation after a very solid Turnstyles team matched us by scoring an eight on their final round (which was coincidentally their joker round). We aced the three tie-break questions though, mainly due to Keith's surprising knowledge of different types of beetles, and Dave's predilection for 1970s music.
That resulted in Keith Prince going up and accepting the trophy and lifting it above his head as if it were the FA Cup which was utterly comical due to the fact that it was all of ten cm in height. Still, a spectacle of sorts, and a fitting end to an entertaining evening.
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