Quiz group – July/August 2023

Two quiz nights took place last month and both evenings were full of good banter and a real stretching of the brain cells.

The first set of questions focused on Germany, Before or after 2000, General Knowledge, Something fishy, Simons and Dawlish. Something fishy came up top trumps with the quizzers. However all the quizzers who live in Dawlish need to brush up on their local history and facts. So how would you have fared?

Here is a taster from each round:

• In which German city is Museum Island, a UNESCO heritage site, situated?
• Did the i pad come before or after 2000?
• Over 70% of all footballs in the world are made in which Asian country?
• What kind of fish was ‘Nemo’ in the film ‘ Finding Nemo’?
• The song ‘Simon says’ was a no 2 hit for which group in 1968?
• The name Dawlish derives from a Welsh river name meaning what?

After a two week breather the quizzers zoomed again and this time tackled the subjects of Border Crossings, Oh crumbs, Disasters, General Knowledge, Kings and Pilgrims.
The results clearly indicated that, because of the jokers played, General Knowledge just came out on top . This said, it was a different matter when it came to answering questions on various people with the surname King.
Would you have known that…?

• Travelling West from Uruguay you arrive in Argentina
• National biscuit day is celebrated in May
• The Bubonic plague is the deadliest natural disaster in recorded history
• The NSPCC was founded in the 1880s (1884)
• Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles titles
• Mecca is situated in Saudi Arabia

We have scheduled in two quizzes for August; 14th and the 28th. Hopefully there will be sufficient players around on 28th (Bank Holiday Monday) to make a go of it.

Graham Carey, Quizmaster and convenor