.....until the Fat lady sings...........

Round two of the quiz league....first home game.....v Ramsbottom Cricket Club

The opposition turned up with a sob story about not having enough players and having to recruit two ordinary club members........Phil muttered "ringers".

Ann dragged herself out to ask the questions despite being ill.

We knew we were in trouble from the first question.

Round 1 Lost 6-8
Round 2 Lost 3-4
Running total 9-12
Round 3. Lost 2-8
Running total 11-20
Round 4 Won 2-1 ( but we talked ourselves out of the full 8 points by sticking at 2)
Half time score 13-21

A fag break.... a stern talking to myself.....serious doubts about pulling back an 8 point deficit.

Round 5 Won 8-3
Running total 21-24
Round 6 Won 10-4
Running total 31-28
Round 7 Individual questions and some inspired answers saw us win 7-2
Running total 38-30
Final round Draw 4-4
Final score 42-34

From an 8 point deficit to an 8 point victory

Happy as a sandboy....but it could have been so different....and as you know I don't lose well!

Some of the questions we did so well on........how many can you get?

1.Which Nordic country was satirised in a Monty Python song as more ignored than Belgium?
2. Which name was given to black US cavalry soldiers by Native American Indians?
3. What name was adopted by black Us soldiers in Vietnam?
4. The tretretretre is an extinct species of which Madagascan primate?
5. DNA analysis has identified the extinct Nicobar pigeon as the closest relative to which other extinct pigeon?
6.Which Oriental villain crossed swords with Sherlock Holmes in the novel "10 years beyond Baker Street"?
7. Which alkaloid with the chemical formula C17 H19 NO3 is isolated from Opium?
8. Which toxin was known in the 19th century as nux vomica and has the chemical formula C21 H22 N2 O2?
9. Which medical condition in which sufferers see their body or body parts as abnormally large or small gets its name from a 19th century children's story?
10. Which medical condition linked to the sleep patterns of the obese takes its name from a Charles Dickens novel?

It's 00.25 and the Boss is outside watering Charlie's pansies.....the things we do!

Das vidanya moy padruga.







Answers
1. Finland
2. Buffalo Soldiers
3. Bloods
4. Lemur
5. Dodo
6. Dr. Fu Manchu
7. Morphine
8. Strychnine
9. Alice in Wonderland syndrome
10. Pickwick syndrome.