Quiz Night

I don’t feel particularly coherent this morning as we had a late night – we went to the Curtin Information Studies Alumni Quiz Night yesterday evening. This annual event happens as part of Library Week and Information Week (this week!).

We’ve gone along three years in a row now – and last night was the second year in a row we came in SECOND. Of course I forgot the camera so I don’t have any pictures (last year’s pictures are here if you are curious – scroll down the page until you come to the “INFORMATION STUDIES ALUMNI/ISSA QUIZ NIGHT” link – the pictures are in a Word document, of all things! There’s one of M’s left profile). We had a great time.

Dinner first at a nearby restaurant, Chi in Victoria Park – rice, acccompanied by ma po tofu, seasonal Asian greens stirfried in oyster sauce and garlic, crispy chicken in a chilli and vinegar sauce (very tasty) and Peking pork ribs.

The seven rounds of questions were fun.

The first question was “what is defined as a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily?” They allowed Wikipedia as an answer – boooo!

There were three questions about the Beaconfield miners, one Harry Potter question (what prop from the second movie was recently found in a field in Cornwall? Answer: the car – amazingly I knew this!), and a few questions that needed counting or mathematical knowledge (thank goodness M and D were there – my maths skills were gone by that time of the evening).

Some were a bit tough:

Whose dog, Blondie, died on the same day he did?
What is sphairistike?
What was the nickname given to Richard Reid by the media?

(Hitler, the original name for lawn tennis, Shoe Bomber)

The second prize was home made seville orange marmalade, bags of tea, funky bottle openers (bright colours!), and a set of cappucino cups. (No you didn’t go along for the prizes.)

Oh, and I won a pair of maroon knitted slippers as a door prize. Wearing them right now – it’s very cold this morning (2.9°C/37.22°F at 5:31am!). Don’t diss the slippers!!

Categories: LibraryInformationWeek, quiz, 2006