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June 16, 2011 in Movies, Quizzes
One of the beauties of table quizzing is that it’s rare you feel you are the cause of your team’s defeat. However, on Monday last, that unfortunate “honour” landed on my shoulders.
We have become the ‘playoff’ team as, apart from the first movie quiz three months ago, we’ve always been involved in a tie-breaker for some position or another. Three months ago we won the opening quiz but, since then, it’s been a playoff for third, a playoff for second and, this month, a playoff for third once more.
Mike is our star man when it comes to movies and it had been only right that he was our nominee for those previous playoffs. However, on Monday night, perhaps lacking the motivation to compete for a slab of beer (which we found difficult to give away, when we won it a few months back), he deferred. Consensus was that I should be the man to approach the stage…
There I met Luke, the other team’s representative. He looked about as up for this as I did – and I don’t even drink beer. “OK,” Dave the quizmaster told us, “we’re going to play another piece of music. The winner is the person who identifies it first.”
On came the music. After about 10 seconds I looked at my opponent. He shrugged his shoulders, indicating that I wasn’t the only one who HADN’T A CLUE what it was. “Alright,” says Dave, “let’s try another one.”
After another 10 seconds, myself and Luke had become impromptu comrades in this crucible of embarrassment. This second tune was (apparently) much easier as people in the crowd were now hurling invective in our general direction. Invective which said ‘Ah come on. This one’s EASY…” Still, Luke and I just stood there.
David on the mic was getting a bit impatient. “I’m going to run out of questions soon!” he told us.
