We wuz robbed

Another pub quiz last night, and another triumph! Uh, sort of. Despite only getting 4 of 31 questions wrong, we were only credited with 23, while the winning team got 27. Treason and plot! personally, I reckon it was an insider job.

You see, the Shepherd's is the home pub of popular angsty combo Coldplay, who I know you're all big fans of. I begun to realise something ewas amiss when bernie, the kindly landlady, passed me my change for the jukebox with the words "now I hope you're going to put on some of that lovely Coldplay". She didn't really look like a typical fan, but many a mickle, etc. Then they asked a question about which album is currently no. 1 in the charts. Surprise surprise - Coldplay again.

As we hadn't chosen a team name by this point, I was strongly pushing "Coldplay can suck (sic) my shiny metal butt". Eventually the more diplomatic team members argued it down to only the last 4 words. However, while we got complimented on our name by bernie, the winning team just happened to be called "A sudden rush of quizziness to the head". You'll notice they misspelled "cuntiness" quite badly there.

So anyway. Obviously the only way they could prevent a bunch of non-Coldpay-acolytes from winning was to fraudulently double the number of errors we made. Marianna had to forcibly restrain me from demanding a recount. Grr.

Incidentally, the questions we got wrong were: how many children did Queen Victoria have; how many people died in Britain from taking ecstasy last year; what sits in a corner and travels the world; and, erm, can't remember the last one. Anyone who can get all three without cheating gets a special prize. Get commenting!

Posted by biondino at September 06, 2002 11:21 AM