Camberley Heath Members

17th December 2009

9 teams braved ice and snow to attend the final quiz night of the year and what a night. The general consensus seemed to be best quiz night ever with free mince pies and a great selection of really good food during the half time interval. The curry and popodums in particular were so good that many went for seconds and the chef was obliged to quickly produce additional rations.

As ever, pandaemonium was kept to a minimum under the masterful control of the quiz-master Wally Walton, although a number of teams did their best to test his mettle. Wally’s able assistant, Bob Rickwood, tried hard to to make the evening controversial with poor arithmetic on the scoring but Wally’s keen eye soon spotted the errors and corrected them before the ever enthusiastic player could form a lynch mob. Many thanks to those who helped Wally identify establish correct scoring.

The overall scoring was very close and resulted in a playoff for second and third place. The deciding question was “how many miles of motorway are there in the UK” (2241) “Bah Humbug” team entered an initial bid of 2000 miles which they changed to 10,000 miles allowing second place to go to “The Clots” with an answer of 7500 miles.

Winning team Camberley Tinselaratti - Tony and Lorna Russel, Simon and Alison Lapthorn, Stephen and Rosemary Martin.

2nd Place The Clots - Colin and Janet Waite, Alan Smith, Kevin Jones, Kevin Hinge, Ben Hinge

3rd Place Bah Humbug - Derek and hazel Jenkins, Phil and Elain Park, Phil Raven, Jose Kellenberger

Congratulations to all.

Finally we would like to wish all quiz player a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.