So as it all worked out nicely: the cancelled ‘club’ night became another outing to one of Andy Morris’ Royal British Legion charity quizes. What was really amazing was that it should fall on the last day of the Battle of the Somme 1916, unfortunately the very day one of the local villagers died.
I know Andrew puts a great deal of effort into producing this quiz, often complaining how hard it is to make up all the questions. Having lived through two of these quizzes I would say that is probably because the majority of questions would challenge Dr Sheldo Cooper.
In particular the missing model number 8, that was to be identified – I concluded it was either a ‘Cloaked’ Klingon warship or an American Stealth bomber (radar view). Rather lamely it had been omitted because the owner had been unable to attend.
I got lucky in having been asked to print off a set of twelve flags of the world that STILL include the Union Flag
This was such an unusual mixture that by the time I had printed them off I had more or less memorised them (not the sepellings though). This was the one that really caught my attention: 
Hard to forget even when, if like me, you had never heard of it. It is of course; British Indian Ocean Territories. Knowing I had a big advantage on this question I helped the nearest table with six of the the most difficult answers to redress the balance a little.
I went alone due to family issues (wife’s total lack of interest in history) but, had been told JC and his wife would be there so would be part of a team of some sorts. Who could forget JC’s memorable contribution to the last quiz we did together when he insisted my right answer was wrong and changed it 🙂 There was also another family (name eludes me – even at a much younger age I was terrible at remembering peoples names) who’s son was in RAF and together we made a pretty good team.
We fluked a 10/10 start and soon found out we were joint leaders with some other ‘forgotten team’ and so it continued until the last two rounds where we calculated my flag knowledge had won us the game if we got two more correct answers, even if they got 20/20.
The main thing was that it was an excellent turnout, well organised and everyone had a good fun night out.
Oh, yest nearly forgot – we won by 10+ points. There is no ‘i’ in team BUT, there is in WINNER 🙂
Great night out and we raised around £790!
You played well but you did have the help of Flying officer Wilson, RAF as well his Mom and Dad as well as JC and you have now won 2 out of four – my Dad was disappointed as they have won when you haven’t!
Thanks for all your support and worth the effort of putting it on.
I am well aware there were two things that helped me win: firstly the other team members and secondly seeing the wierd mix of flags you put together. Not over impressed with the skills of the ‘Flying Officer’ though: he identified the SuperFortress model as a B52 (despite it clearly being propellor driven) and hadn’t got a clue what the Phantom jet was! However, as I thought HMS Iron Duke was Warspite (should have pushed my way through for a closer look) it is clearly slightly more difficult than you would immagine to identify a model. Although the Spitfire was clearly a Mk I as it only had two propellor blades. JC even played his part with ‘doctors orders’. Main thing was you raised a good sum again and we all had a laugh.