Quizzical

Last night was the weekly quiz at Dave's Place. Altaa and I arrived before the quiz started but the team I had been invited to be on was already oversubscribed with five members by the time we arrived. So I linked up with a team of three. As it turned out, this team was the famous 'Sausages'. I say famous as, despite the varying composition of the team, it usually wins, as it had done the previous week when it beat the team I was on into second place (by half a point!). The surviving member from last week was Stephanie, an English woman. The other two were Matt and Nicky, a New Zealand couple with three children (the kids were obviously not present). So we had an official team of four as opposed to the last time I won a quiz at Dave's Place with an 'unofficial' team of four. This is because although the latter team had seven members, four of us did all the work. There were five teams in all, two of five people, two of three and ours of four (Altaa didn't play, but just talked with the other team members). There were some pretty tough questions and for most of the night, I thought we were destined to finish second or third, but the table round of guessing the song to a quote swung it our way and we emerged victorious with five thousand tugrugs apiece (quiz entry fee - 1,000 tugrugs) and a drink on the house. Dave's team surprisingly finished last while Dave had a booby prize for the second placed team (the team I might have been on). If they could eat a whole bag of solidified mare's milk (a Mongolian delicacy) he suggested he would pay their bill, though in the end he gave them Dave's Place t-shirts. The five of them gamely ate away, but the retching faces they pulled as they forced it down themselves was a form of amusement in itself. It had been a good night to be a quiz winner.