Quiz Night
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This week we didn't have our usual club night, instead members travelled to Irby and participated in a quiz night as guests of WADARC
The evening was introduced by Club Chairman Gordon Nicolas, who then handed over the compering of the night to Club Secretary Tom Howarth G4BKF. Tom explained that the quiz was dedicated to our dear friend Peter G3PYU, and the winner would take home a very handsome trophy. Tom added an extra element by inviting the audience to form into teams of up to three, as these teams could also take part with a bottle for each participating member of the winning audience team.
We had an official team, comprising of Dave Ollerhead G4JMF, Bruce Sutherland M0CVP, who challenged against Wirral's team of Bob Smith G4NCI, Simon Grainger 2E0BDO and Phil Jones G6IIM.
Within the audience from Chester we had myself and my husband Greg G0DUB, Pat M3XSD, Alan G3LPO, Graham G7NEH, John G0KKO and wife Viv, Derrick M1SUM, Greg and I formed team “Bright Sparks” (a name gifted by Pat but then she became part of a team with Derrick and Alan), John, Viv and Graham made up our other audience team.
There were 60 questions, 30 on radio, 30 on general knowledge. Questions on radio were devised by our very own Alan Hopkinson G8OJQ, who had a ringside seat and had the final say on what was or wasn't an acceptable answer to the radio questions.
We were in the Cricket Club at Irby, which is a lovely club house, Wirral are very lucky to have such excellent facilities there, and it was nice to a have a bar available whilst we all socialised. Wirral Club members were very welcoming.
Tom was an entertaining Quiz master, and before we knew it was eyes down, thinking caps on. In my own little team of myself and Greg I found I was mostly happy with the general knowledge – but literally handed over the quiz sheet when it came to the radio questions (and non of you are surprised abit are you? :-) ). 60 questions passed by remarkably quickly, and I realised that I hadn't really looked at the official team in the entire time of the quiz, so involved was I in our own answers. Then we took a break and had some sandwiches kindly provided by a member of Wirral Club.
Marking then commenced – you can imagine what it was like, all good fun, but plenty of “what about....”, Alan sat impertubable throughout – clearly enjoying himself.
And the final result, our offficial team won on behalf of Chester – well done again chaps. The winners from the audience teams, to my total shock, was Greg and I (mostly thanks to Greg I suspect) – all of which left me tickled pink with delight and richer by a bottle.
All in all it was a really fun evening, inviting the audience to participate was a stroke of genius as it got us all involved and made it much more fun. Our welcome was warm and every one enjoyed themselves – a perfect night out for us all.
I must also pass on special thanks to Neil G4AOR for the pictures he took and kindly forwarded to me.
Thankyou again to Wirral Club for hosting such a fun, entertaining and brain teasing evening.
Lisa Mossop M0LSA, Chairman Chester & District Radio Society
The evening was introduced by Club Chairman Gordon Nicolas, who then handed over the compering of the night to Club Secretary Tom Howarth G4BKF. Tom explained that the quiz was dedicated to our dear friend Peter G3PYU, and the winner would take home a very handsome trophy. Tom added an extra element by inviting the audience to form into teams of up to three, as these teams could also take part with a bottle for each participating member of the winning audience team.
We had an official team, comprising of Dave Ollerhead G4JMF, Bruce Sutherland M0CVP, who challenged against Wirral's team of Bob Smith G4NCI, Simon Grainger 2E0BDO and Phil Jones G6IIM.
Within the audience from Chester we had myself and my husband Greg G0DUB, Pat M3XSD, Alan G3LPO, Graham G7NEH, John G0KKO and wife Viv, Derrick M1SUM, Greg and I formed team “Bright Sparks” (a name gifted by Pat but then she became part of a team with Derrick and Alan), John, Viv and Graham made up our other audience team.
There were 60 questions, 30 on radio, 30 on general knowledge. Questions on radio were devised by our very own Alan Hopkinson G8OJQ, who had a ringside seat and had the final say on what was or wasn't an acceptable answer to the radio questions.
We were in the Cricket Club at Irby, which is a lovely club house, Wirral are very lucky to have such excellent facilities there, and it was nice to a have a bar available whilst we all socialised. Wirral Club members were very welcoming.
Tom was an entertaining Quiz master, and before we knew it was eyes down, thinking caps on. In my own little team of myself and Greg I found I was mostly happy with the general knowledge – but literally handed over the quiz sheet when it came to the radio questions (and non of you are surprised abit are you? :-) ). 60 questions passed by remarkably quickly, and I realised that I hadn't really looked at the official team in the entire time of the quiz, so involved was I in our own answers. Then we took a break and had some sandwiches kindly provided by a member of Wirral Club.
Marking then commenced – you can imagine what it was like, all good fun, but plenty of “what about....”, Alan sat impertubable throughout – clearly enjoying himself.
And the final result, our offficial team won on behalf of Chester – well done again chaps. The winners from the audience teams, to my total shock, was Greg and I (mostly thanks to Greg I suspect) – all of which left me tickled pink with delight and richer by a bottle.
All in all it was a really fun evening, inviting the audience to participate was a stroke of genius as it got us all involved and made it much more fun. Our welcome was warm and every one enjoyed themselves – a perfect night out for us all.
I must also pass on special thanks to Neil G4AOR for the pictures he took and kindly forwarded to me.
Thankyou again to Wirral Club for hosting such a fun, entertaining and brain teasing evening.
Lisa Mossop M0LSA, Chairman Chester & District Radio Society