Posted by hunny_Beez on Mon 10 Nov 08, 11:30 AM to hunny_Beez's blog.
Hive and I used to go to the local pub quiz on a Sunday night with our daughter and son-in-law regularly. However with work and other things happening we had not been for months, maybe as long as a year.
So last week we all made the effort and went. The format of the quiz had changed with a new rather eccentric quiz master. We had a great night and came in third.
This week however we won ...hooray, not just won but thrashed the arses off the other teams, scoring 7 points more than the second place team. If looks could kill we would all four be dead as some of the other regular teams did not like this "new team" winning. HA HA.
Anyway this was not the point of the blog gloating over being in a winning pub quiz team. Its nothing much to boast about cos it really is only a silly little local pub quiz. Now when I say local I dont mean our village local, dont be silly, All the questions in our village would firstly be in Welsh and secondly have lots of questions about banjos and marrying your own cousin.
It was local as in the closest main town.
Anyhow back to the point of the blog.
The first 12 questions were pictures, guess who the person is.
So we got all but four of them quickly and easily. The one picture of a blonde woman started off the heated debate. Both my daughter and I said it was Cyndi Lauper however Hive and the son-in-law insisted it was not. So the rest of the questions start.
Every time there is a break the is it or is it not Cyndi debate starts up again.
The break after 30 questions was taken up with the is it or is it not Cyndi.
The Masterful Men thought they knew best "It is not Cyndi Lauper, it looks nothing like her" me and my sweet subbie (rofl) daughter shyly and demurely said "Oh but look at the shape of her face, look at her eyes, but we bow to your better judgement as we are but lowly women" or something along those lines LOL.
The final 20 questions finished and as there was no other quess for question number four Hive wrote Cyndi Lauper. "Its not her but its better than not putting anything" He says.
My daughter and I now pick the wrong time to go to the loo.
Just as we pull our drawers down for a pee the answers are starting to get read out. It is one of those pubs where the music is played in the loo so we could hear the answers.
As we pee "number one is Prince Charles"
Daughter and me both do the "yes" over the sound of our pissing.
"number two is Same Difference"
"I got that one" my daughter shouts in glee as we both start to pull up our knickers.
"number three Boris Johnson"
"We all knew that one" I say ready to flush
"number four Cyndi Lauper"
"YES" we both shout as we flush the loos and dive for the sinks, I dont think I have ever washed my hands so quick, We so wanted to go out and gloat.
The problem was as we approached are table both the men had a strange look on their faces a bit of a mixture between serious and sympathy but their eyes were bursting with laughter.
We had missed something.
However as we sat down we noticed the paper they were marking. In the good old tradition of quizzes we all swap papers to mark another teams. However the paper we were marking was doing rather bad. No they were doing terrible.
We did not have the heart to cheer and do the "YES" when we knew that the answers being read out we had correct. We kept looking for ways to give them a point. In the end we gave them points for guessing. Well if one of the letters in the answer was right.
What made it worse was they had marked our sheet.
We were made up winning. However my daughter and I were more made up at getting the Cyndi Lauper question right. If only we had won by just one point we could have really gloated.
So we now have 8 free pints of lager to claim next time we are at the pub. The thing is Hive and son-in-law drink Cider and my daughter and I drink wine. 
We had a great night out
hunnyB playing Cyndi Lauper while Hive is trying to work.
| 10 Nov 08, 4:04 PM MisterBear UK(WA), 8 yrs    |
Cyndi Lauper with blonde hair? I always thought she had it coloured. Or did she have it blonde with coloured things in it? Damn I'm going to have to check, and if I end up with "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" stuck in me head all night I'm gonna blame you. Although it was used on some horny adverts back in the 80s involving women capturing men. I'm a blank sheet waiting to become a picture. |
