Quiz Night

So apparently a group of beavers is called a colony of beavers and not an empire. Well, that leaves me crushingly disappointed.

I didn’t chime in with many answers at quiz night tonight because frankly, my general knowledge is appalling. I don’t care about pop culture celebrities, I don’t watch (or play) sports, I don’t listen to the music that everyone seems to recognise instantly (as the wrong artist in the case of tonight’s quiz!). I gave two answers out of one hundred questions, and I remember them: the cast for the show Extras, which surprised me more than anyone due to having only seen one episode. And secondly, recognising the song Coldplay – Yellow.

I had a pretty great time anyway, though. My aim was to come up with the dumbest answers possible. For instance, the colour of copper sulphate is obviously copper, the planet between Earth and Mercury couldn’t be anything other than Vega Six, and the sport that used to be played on a football-sized pitch between hundreds, if not thousands of players? You guessed it. Extreme squash.

So I suppose I must think I’m pretty funny (I’m not), but points are never given for humour (even if it had been good). Thankfully there were five people besides me on our team who weren’t fools, so we managed not to come last. Barely. We beat the Chaplaincy!

If the questions had been about Pokemon, Doctor Who, or the anatomy of a Nintendo 3DS, we’d have been the victors any day. And in the end, that’s all that really matters.

(Oh, you thought this blog post was going somewhere? Nope, just a ramble.)