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Just a sample of what is in "Playing From Memory", the definitive book on quizzes and quizzing.
To give you an idea of what our game looks like, there is an illustration of a match above. (Actually it is the London side in the the first ever season of the President's Cup with the author captaining at No. 1.)
In "Playing From Memory" I wanted to give you an idea of what happens in a game of Team Quizzing so I wrote a little playlet. Here is a bit of it which is reproduced with the kind permission of Beccon Publications:
This is a Team Quiz match between Apocalypse Club,who are Jim; Red; Bill; Mary and Gospelmakers Arms who are Matt; Mark; Luke; Johnny. The question master is Peter, the scorer is the lovely Samantha (on loan from the BBC)and we join them just as Peter is asking the first question of the match which will be directed to Jim.
PETER OK then – Apocalypse Club to start and Jim, your question: In Coronation Street , what was the name of the workshy window cleaner, played for many years by Bernard Youens?
JIM Why do I always get questions about soaps? I’ve no idea! Somebody else answer!
BILL It was Stan Ogden & bloody hell Jim you knew that when you were asked what Stan Ogden’s job was a fortnight ago!
RED Oh yes of course – big fat chap. He was married to Hilda wasn’t he? Played by Jean somebody.
PETER Stan Ogden is correct. One point to Number 3 please Samantha.
BILL (Sneezes )Sorry everybody – pestilential cold. Shouldn’t be here!
PETER Matt – your question: Who was the last British king to lead his troops in battle?
MATT (without hesitating)George the Second
PETER Correct – two points to Number 1
JOHNNY Nice start, skipper!
RED Yes of course it was at Dettingen in 1743 if my memory serves me correctly – he didn’t make much of a job of it!
BILL (Mutters)If the next question is: Where did that happen, I’ll bloody murder him!
PETER Red – OK to call you that? – Question 2a is yours: Who was the last British king to be killed in battle?
RED (Immediately, in fact, almost before Peter has finished )Oh! Richard the Third… My Kingdom for a horse and so on …
PETER That’s incorrect. Over.
(Red is aghast)
MATT (Has seen the signals from Luke & Johnny )Take it Luke
LUKE James the Fourth of Scotland.
MATT Question said “British”, Red, not “English”.
PETER Correct – at Flodden 1513 – one bonus point to Number 3 please, Samantha.
MARY I wonder if I left my lighter on the bar downstairs
RED Oh – sorry everybody!
BILL Bloody hell! You’ve done that before. Excuse me! (Sneezes again)
PETER Ready?
MARY Sorry – whose question is it?
PETER (patiently) It’s question 2b and it’s to Mark – it’s a bit long Mark: Which children’s book first published in 1872, as a sequel, begins: "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it – it was the black kitten’s fault entirely”?
(Mark puts his head in his hands. Johnny has a confident look and is signalling he’s certain. Ten seconds pass.)
SAMANTHA Team!
MATT Take it Johnny
JOHNNY “Through the Looking Glass”
PETER Correct. One point to number 4
MARK Sorry skipper, I wasn’t quite sure …..
RED I think the correct title’s “ALICE through the Looking Glass”. (To Peter) Are you sure that’s right?
PETER “Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There” is the full title I’ve got here – but I can accept Johnny’s answer and would have accepted yours Red. Everybody happy?
I hope you will be happy with what you have just read and promptly buy the book to see what happens in the rest of the round!
Author's note:
The characters and events and the extract from the question set portrayed above are wholly fictitious.Any resemblance between said characters, events and question set and any persons alive or dead or any events in any Quiz League is wholly coincidental.
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An extract from 'Playing From Memory'
