This year my quiz was a great improvement on last year's. I think last year's was too hard - there was a Dickens round, a Rivers round, a North Atlantic Challenge round, (2 of the members were rowing across the Atlantic at the time), there was a round on Surrey and one on Lords and Ladies, including Lady Gaga. There was also a Disney round where there were pictures to identify. This time we had more variety! There was a science round, a centenary round, a movies round, but also a round for identifying pictures of everyday items under the microscope, a round for identifying pictures of people who died within the last 12 months, including Hugo Chavez, Neil Armstrong (not wearing a space suit, obs) and Norman Schwartzkopf, the others from popular entertainment. Also 2 music rounds: playing tracks for a minute or so - one on songs from Disney, one mark for the film and one for the character, - one on cover versions: who's doing the cover version, who did it originally?
We also had a round which involved identifying pictures of buildings on our reach and marking them on a map. The problem with this round, first, is that it penalises visitors to the area, and I did warn my collaborator who produced this round that this might be a problem. The other prob was that the pics were quite small and the older people were all complaining they couldn't see them properly. But it really makes a change from writing down an answer.
Rather to my astonishment members of the team that won were closely related to me. (I'm sure that some of my loved ones know about nothing but movies.) This caused some grumbling - not to say barracking- from other teams but there was no collusion. In the end, everyone said it was good fun and that's the main thing. Making a quiz is quite interesting and exercises the judgment, as you have put in something for everyone.
We have a strong-minded old judge who has joined our club; it is rather a challenge teaching her to scull but I love her enthusiasm and tenacity. She is 70 and not very agile moving around the boat.
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