pub quiz

we have a few pubs in Geneva that do pub quizzes. and then, there are pub quizzes and pub quizzes! in this one pub, there are 10 questions on 10 topics. we're generally pretty hopeless, but it's fun. a lesson in humility, says a friend...

anyway, we started going regularly about a month ago. last week, we were dismally bad. i think we scored about 21 points. we were right at the bottom (there are usually around 20 teams). because of this, we were allowed to choose any topic for this week, that only we would know would be on and would thus be able to read up on. we only had about 2 mns to think about this, and we eventually chose dinosaurs. the quiz master seemed dubious. 'are you sure?', she asked. oh well... so off we went and studied. or rather, off i went and studied (turned out i had a book about dinosaurs), as one of the team couldn't make the quiz after all, and the other spent the weekend skiing...

so anyway, we met up on the big day. dinosaurs was the 3rd round, and we played our joker on it, and luckily it paid off! only one mistake, and only because the quiz master wasn't specific enough about what group or subgroup name she wanted ('which dinosaurs did birds evolve from?' well, saurishians, for the main group, but theropods for the subgroup). still, we actually did pretty well this week: 61 points!, 7th out of 30 teams. nice!