I attended my companies quiz night last night, and I must admit, I do like a good quiz. There were 19 teams, and the quiz was 10 rounds long, each round on a different subject. Each team had a Joker card to play at the beginning of any one round, that would double the points score in that round. Simple right.

So, being a guy who knows a lot about sports (if I do say so myself) I convinced our team to play the Joker card in the sports round. Now, can I just say, a round in a quiz is 10 DIFFERENT questions. The sports round last night was "Name the last 10 different winners of the ladies singles at Wimbledon"*. That was the WHOLE round!!!

No Football Questions
No Cricket questions
No Rugby Questions

1 Whole round on tennis, why wasn't it called the tennis round!

We manged to get 8/10 so I wasn't too annoyed, but still, I wasn't happy. We finished joint 3rd overall, so as my colleague Long Hair put it, we are among the 20 cleverest people at the company!

Also there was a picture round, and my highlight of the evening, was when the team whose questions we were marking had confused Alistair Darling (Chancellor of the Exchequer) with Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslav war criminal). Easy mistake to make i know.


*For those interested, the answer was Serena William, Venus William, Steffi Graf, Conchita Martinez, Martina Navratilova, Maria Sharapova, Amelie Mauresmo, Lindsay Davenport, Jana Novotna and Martina Hingis