Call for questions

Busy old weekend, so no time to write about last Thursday's quiz until now: Our most successful ever, which was nice. We beat the previous record by two whole persons (that's not to say that previously we have had less than complete persons attending our quiz night) and we raised a few quid for Fairtrade into the bargain.

The evening was a joint effort between ourselves and Wheatley United Reformed Church. We (mostly Angie, I have to admit) did the quiz, in our usual style. The URC and our quiz regulars attended and it was a really fantastic evening. One of our regular teams was only beaten by the tie-breaker too, so the "inside knowledge" of the URC crowd was nicely balanced.

One thing that became apparent from this quiz, or at least the partnership style to it, which made it so successful, was that if you do a quiz which has a local interest, then people will turn out for it. Hopefully, some of those that came specifically to last Thursday's quiz will turn up again to future ones. But, it gave me an idea. In three week's time, it is our second anniversary quiz and also, by a bizarre coincidence (not really that bizarre, since there are fifty two weeks in a year and we have a two week break for Christmas and New Year) our 100th quiz.

I may introduce some other surprises, but I want to make #100 the "Competitor Quiz". That is, you, the competitors, set the questions.

All you have to do is let us have one or more questions (and answers) that we can ask on the night, either by email or in person (don't put them on Facebook or the blog because everyone will see them). The question(s) should be of a level suitable for all. You will, of course, know the answer to the question(s) yourself - although we will have to verify it (and of course, we reserve the right to edit it and/or use it as a theme to a question) - and if you are a member of a team and you all submit questions, then we will need to restrict the number per team somehow, but we'll see how it goes first. Don't worry about making it British themed and if sport, music or entertainment are your specialty, then go for it, just make sure it's not too out-there and everyone has a chance. The deadline for questions is 7pm on Wednesday 31st March.

More than twenty different teams have won the quiz in the last two years and many more have taken part, so getting twenty competitor questions should be easy, but if we get too many questions, we'll select from them randomly.

Start jotting....