Royal Cornwall Yacht Club Social Life
April 16th 2008 - Fun Quiz Evening
Teams began arriving early and getting settled ready for the wide range of questions that Nick Woodley had prepared for the final RCYC Quiz night of the winter season. About fifty members, friends and family made this the busiest of the  later quiz evenings.
The four rounds of questions covered a mixture of pictures to be identified, general knowledge, maritime subjects and art & literature questions. One of the four rounds consisted of an audio round where TV theme tunes were played over the PA system and the teams needed to simply guess correctly the TV programmes these tunes used to introduce. This was a new twist to quiz night and I believe was a success as I could see members sitting at their respective tables saying, “oh…..what is that tune, I know it……., it’s on the tip of my tongue”, and when the answers where given out many people saying “ah yes…….that’s it!!!!!”. This brought back a few memories clearly and it was scary how many themes folk knew even down to details of the name of the car in Knight Rider! The answer is at the bottom of the page by the way!
With a wide range of interest and knowledge, few teams had managed to get a member who knew all of the sections. Indeed, when the question was , “what was the name of Tintin’s dog?” a lady member, who shall remain anonymous, was heard to shout out, bingo style, “Oh I know that one”. Only to have her minute of glory shattered by answering “Rusty” instead of “Snowy”, the correct answer.
At the end of the evening the close scores showed that there had been some serious ‘scratching of heads’ and ‘diving into the memory banks’, but two teams still could not be divided with both ending on a very respectful 39 points. This led to a ‘non-contact’ tie-break, “Which property is immediately after the ‘GO’ square?” on the English Monopoly board, to which the ‘Maybe Babies’ sent the ‘Northern Louts’ packing with the answer, Old Kent Road, given first.
The final scores are listed below.
| 1st |
Mabey Babies |
39 points (won tie-break) |
| 2nd |
The Northern louts |
39 points |
| 3rd |
The Blues |
38 points |
| 4th (tied) |
Golden Rivets |
37 points |
| 4th (tied) |
Hello Sailor |
37 points |
| 6th (tied) |
Keelboats |
34 points |
| 6th (tied) |
Fighting Five |
33 points |
| 7th |
Just 4 |
33 points |
| 8th |
Palmtree Quartet |
32 points |
| 9th |
Cliffhangers |
31 points |
| 10th |
Powerboats |
27 points |
| 11th |
Cousin Jack |
26 points |
A good evening with friends, good food and the right amount of brain activity, everyone enjoyed the evening and looks forward to the next one later in the year. Thanks go especially to Nick and Jackie, and the bar and catering staff.
Just For Fun!!
Put these cities in order according to their lines of latitude from North to South?
Moscow, Newcastle-on-Tyne, St Petersburg, Helsinki and Edinburgh
Poster for the quiz night
The name of the car in Knight Rider was KIT, an acronym for Knight Industries 2000. Sad or what!
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April 22, 2008
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