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According to the board outside the Legends Lounge this is occurring

Do the (past and present) members of "Trust Neville"  fancy making our annual appearance ?  Anyone else interested if we're low on numbers ?

Yeah, I'll give it a go. Subject to the usual "getting permission off the missus to go out and enjoy myself" caveats. (NB this doesn't apply to midweek games as they don't fall under the category of enjoying myself - misery is always permissible)

Is there any truth in the rumour that Danny Wilson is the quizmaster, and that question one is "how can I pick a team that doesn't concede stupid goals?". ;)

I'll put my name forward for this, if only to annoy Pauld as clearly he thinks I'm scary.

No sweat if team is full though, just let me know if you need me.

Count me in Neville

Cliff

Bonus question for 25 points: "What on earth is the point of Alan O'Brien?" :)

I'm in.

Paul, Paul, Paul, that is very unfair!!  We all know the answer to that one - he is employed to annoy opponents by going and hiding behind them and saying Boo!! if the ball goes near them!

*Bump*

Any more takers ?

I'll have to see where I'm working that week, if I can get back in time I'm in.

I'm definitely in Swindon so I'm a yes

I'm up for it if you need numbers still.

Fuck you Thicko

Sorry Dean :(

Thick you Fucko

Friday 3rd booked off work. These quizzes wear me out so much that I don't tend to function the next day ;)

*BUMP*

OK, 'Trust Neville' is entered.  Maximum of 8 persons, £5 each (on the night) to include a basket meal (or basket case probably)

Line up

nevillew
pauld
CliffP
Summerof 69
crystall Tips
Si Pie
Samdy Gray

Thursday 2nd December Legends Lounge  7.15, food 7.30ish quiz follows food

Please all confirm attendance, room for another player if you're keen

Confirmed.

Confirmed. Missus may come if we can get babysitters but wouldn't bank on it, so don't allocate a place for her

Yep I'm in. My employers can fuck off if they want to rearrange my cushty afternoon Sage Accounts training session with a Swindon based client.

Confirmed.

Confirmed

confirmed

Good work team - apparently there's a 'christmas bias' to the quiz, so let's learn those reindeer names !

What time does this start on Thursday?  Can't see any times on the website...

It's usually doors at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

Although invariably it never starts until well after 8pm.

Thank you!  I imagine it takes a while for everyone to settle anyway...

Mopsy, Flopsy, Cottontail and Peter. I'm all over this.

I've ballsed up a bit, re-arranged a day at a client in Worthing tomorrow completely forgetting about this. Hopefully if I make sure I'm really prepared and organised I can leave early. Although the client is a bit clueless when it comes to accounting records :(

You might want to re-arrange Worthing again because on the weather

With a mind like this, we might be better off without.  - hope you can make it anyway :)

I have no clue what any of you look like apart from that Davies bloke, so I might end up in some other team by mistake

Just look for the table of good looking, sophisticated, suave types - we'll be two tables to the left of them.

I'm in Swindon today so will definitely make it on time.

You planning on any pre-quiz drinks Si? Was thinking of heading to The Merlin for a few before heading down.

Depends what time I finish work. I can probably get there for 6pm

I won't be there until about then anyway.

Cool see you then. I'm going to dump my work on someone else and bigger off on time for a change :)

Good effort team.   7th out of 22, some inspired answers and good banter.  Comfortably in the 'knowledgeable but not geeky' bracket.

Brought to you by the wonder of the internet, invented by Tim Berners-Lee

"Thanks for pointing that out"

*Brought

(I'm not biting, I'm not biting, I'm not biting, I'm trying ever so hard not to bite)

With a little help from the World Wide Web, which may or may not have anything to do with DARPA.

This should of been called off!

Missed out on a much larger gate.....

Fucking shit you lot are.

As I remember it, DonRogersShop was touted as a possible answer to one of the questions.

Any guesses what the question was?

Who sang 'Happy Christmas (War is Over)?'

And we got stiffed on the Wayne Rooney question. We were right, it was Portland in Oregon (where Nike Town is), and not Seattle where he went training on his own a month ago, so that cost us two points.

Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area.

Who is a stalwart of the TEF and respected by THE FLASH?

Yep that was me.

In cricket, what does DRS stand for?

It was the new Decision Replay System.

Isn't it review not replay?

Probably...

Yes Sonic, which is what we put last night  So69 is getting over-excited again.

Me. Badly.

Some stupidly ambiguous/contentious/unclear questions in there last night:

Which animal is the fastest on the planet?
Which vegetable is 98% water?
What was the name of the boat that won the first America's Cup?

And don't mention the question of 'Who invented the internet?' to Paul D !!!

Which animal is the fastest on the planet? You'd have thought Peregrine falcon mighty be the answer
Which vegetable is 98% water?  cucumber must be a shout.
What was the name of the boat that won the first America's Cup? I'd be surprised if anyone got that....if they did, they were using an i-phone.

Indeed.  Peregrine Falcon was right, but a fair few would have put cheetah due to the wording of the question being 'animal' and 'on the planet'.

Is a cucumber a vegetable?  Or a fruit?  Does the question mean vegetable in the 'Animal, Vegetable or Mineral' sense, or the common idea of a vegetable?

And the America's Cup winner was America - "hence the name of the race" was the explanation.  Well surely then the name came after the win?  We almost put America 1, but discarded it on this basis.

It's more down to poor wording of the question leaving things open to interpretation (internet/world wide web) which annoyed me.  Not that it made any difference as we weren't close to the winners, but still.

Always give the answer you think is wanted....so cucumber is commonly thought of as veg, even though technically a fruit....

The first winner of the America's Cup...couldn't be America...which won some other trophy, but America is the desired answer.