When I say church, you say quiz.......

On Saturday I went to a church quiz. It was run by Littleover Churches Together, and so there were people there from many different churches. On my team there was me, two 16 year olds, a 13 year old and two people in there 40's. We were the youngest team there by a long long way, the rest of the room was fairly dominated by white haired type people. The quiz master was 20 minutes late, as the advertising in his church said it started half an hour later than it did. The first round was bible stuff - fair enough you think for a church quiz. He gave us the answer to the first question, not even by accident, he did it on purpose. The first question was, ‘what was the name of Isaiah’s horse?’ The answer to this was ‘Isme, because Isaiah said ‘Woe is me.’ It turned out the rest of round had answers like that. Another question was ‘what vegetable did Noah not want on the ark?’ Answer: a leek. At this point we wondered if we had come to a quiz or a guess the corny punchline evening. It unsurprisingly turned out that no-one got more than about 3 points out of ten in that round.

The quiz did pick up slightly from there. There were some good questions, many of which we could answer. We played our joker on a round that we got full marks on, so that was pleasing.

Round 8 was due to be a music round. We were unsure how we would do with this round as with this kind of round it often depends on who has put it together as to how easy it is. Had the quiz master have put it together it would have all been music from before when we were born. It turned out that someone else had put the round together. It also turned out that when they gave the quiz master the tape, they didn’t give them the answers. This was realised at about round 6, so the score person went off to see if they could get the answers. They couldn’t

Between each round they kept trying to get hold of the person who had put the music round together, to no avail. We did round 9 and round 10, in the hope that the answers to the music round (round 8) may come available. It was getting a little bit late by now, and some people wanted to go home. We were asked if we wanted to do the music round. Many people didn’t, but we thought it would be quite fun, and as the most vocal team, our voices were heard and the music round began.

The first song was All Saints, Pure Shores – I had half a thought that it was All Saints, but didn’t remember the song. Someone else on my team thought it was Kiss Me by Six Pence None the Richer, so that is what we gave as our answer. We had a few more bits of songs, most of which we knew the title to, and some of which we knew the artist to.

The sixth song was Sex on the Beach by The Venga Boys. It was a part of the song were they sung ‘sex on the beach’ several times. Now bear in mind for one moment the demograph of the people at the quiz (elderly Christians). We found the looks on their faces rather amusing. The quiz master clearly had no idea that song was on the tape either. The next song was Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys. Normally this would not be amusing, but considering the song it followed it turned out to be rather amusing.

When we got to the end of the round, the tape was played again in case we had missed any. That meant that we got to see the interesting looks on peoples faces again. By the time we had listened to it a second time, they had managed to get on the phone the person who had put the round together. She didn’t have a list of the answers in front of her, so for her to give the answers the tape had to be played a third time so she could listen to the songs and try and remember what they were.

I done a good answer to another of the songs. It was Octpus’s Garden, which is a song originally done by The Beatles. This version sounded quite Beatlesish, but I didn’t think it was them. Thought the person singing sounded a bit like Ringo Starr, so we put that as our answer and it turned out is was right! Another answer I knew and I was quite proud of (I think this was in the geography round) was ‘where does Postman Pat live?’
Anyway the main thing really that is actually important from the whole evening is that my team won – by a clear two and a half points. That was good. Our prize was 8 bags of left over crisps – whoop! (oh and btw it raised about £100 for Christian Aid)