Majorca, 2009, a local bar that had an excellent bistro attached had a nightly quiz, one prize, a 20 Euros Food Voucher to used in their excellent eatery. So Maggie and I enter this one night, and heading into the penultimate round, we were neck and neck with a bunch of guys from Manchester and two elderly couples. Then it all went a bit pearshaped, Guv.
Quiz Master, : “Question ten: Who was the Last Of The Mohicans”
Me, writing: *Chingachook*.
At the end of the round, the QM gave out the answers, and to the question mentioned above, he gave the answer as “Uncas,” which was also the answer given by our two close rivals.
I raised my hand. “You are wrong, it’s Cingachook”
Elderly Guy, who obvs knew his stuff: “Uncas was the son of Chingachook, so Uncas is the correct answer”
Me: “Ah, but Uncas was killed on the mountain, so he predeceased his father, therefore Chingachook was the last of the Mohicans.”
Elderly Guy, thinks “You know, you may be right.”
The Mancs weren’t having it and a bit of argybargy ensued. (“Shut it you twat” “Wot, you going to make me” etc etc) Maggie said “I’m going,” so too much cat calls and jeers and as the QM confirmed “Uncas ” as the correct answer, I left the bar with a very unhappy lady.
When you are right, you are right. And I bloody well was.
I didn’t want to win their bloody stupid voucher anyway.
Pedants in Pub Quizzes, or Tales From When The Quizmaster Is Wrong
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10 years – and it’s still smarting. You must’ve been cut deeply
But yes – when you’re right you’re right.
So sod ’em
And don’t get me started on the quiz where the Question was :”What sportsman was known as the “Loiusville Lip” and my answer of Cassius Clay was rejected. The correct answer was Mohammed Ali.
Indeed.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and OMD are the same band.
That took a bit of explaining (because it wasn’t the answer on the card) but it was begrudgingly accepted
OMD were of course the Ozark Mountain Daredevils before they ever started manoeuvring their orchestra in the dark.
You’d think someone would have started a thread about this subject before now ….
It’s Please Please Me.
I mean the album, of course.
I tried out that question “In which order did The Beatles cross the road on the Abbey Road album cover?” on 3 friends in the pub, earlier. None of them got it right.
Especially when you find out they did it backwards.
I had to gently correct a quizmaster when he asked the teams to identify the two Bond themes sung by Shirley Bassey. There are three…he took it surprisingly well: he didn’t roll his eyes, swear under his breath or look at me like I was a nasal hair in his salad. Honestly.