Quiz night politics

Down at The Boot, K, S, D and a couple of alternating Steves meet up for the weekly Wednesday night quiz ritual...

The first hurdle is the sitting arrangements.  Usually, first to arrive gets to choose the table and a central spot around it, that might give advantage to what is known as the "battle of the pen's control".  This is specially valuable in the presence of any single lady that might have been conned into attending the procedings.
Display of knowledge works like a kind of peacock's tail to impress the  said ladies, so having pen control is crucial to disregard answers from other players.
Picking on other players is important to display alphamaleness, so each player does his best to outdo the others on the intellectual stakes.
Also another key charateristic is what is known as the opposite of pirric victory, whereas a team voluntarily forfeits a winning , in order to win a better prize.  For example tonight, where winning third prize is more economically advantageous than winning the second.  Thus our answer for a question about a year and snakes and ladders became 10,000,000,000,000,000 BC in order to forfeit the higher but less advantageous prize (£20 or a gallon of beer...)

In fact, one of our team members was shouting, "We should have said tomatoes!"

Anyway, we lost, which meant that we won....

Wednesday night quiz politics, hey!!!

We celebrated with a round of absynth, which made me want to wretch and took my breath away for a couple of minutes.  A very good result!!!

Absynth definitely makes the heart grow fonder...