We Won!

So, as promised, here is finally a picture with people in it:

From right to left: Melissa (US), John (US), Christine (Germany), Me,
Megan (US), Dale (Canada), and Jude (US)

Tada! It's been a longtime coming, I know. Now, here's the story behind it:

In this first week, we've kind of established ourselves at a local pub that is quickly becoming our place. We joke that it'll be like cheers one day - where every knows us (although, they probably already so, as the loud Americans :-). So, last Wed. we were there and they had a quiz night. It's a pretty common thing here during the week at pubs for entertainment. Basically, there's ten rounds of ten questions a piece that range from world news/geography to identifying music or pictures. So, last week, with the help of a really nice Irish couple, we came in second to last. Yeah, when you start asking a bunch of Americans about British cartoons, we're just not very good. :-)

We decided to head back this week to give it another shot. The group that went is the group in the picture. Before Jude showed up, we were trying to come up with a team name and one suggestion was "5 Americans and a German," but the Canadian didn't like that idea very much. :-) Poor Dale got teased a good bit last night - but he's a good sport. So anyways, we start going through the quiz and do pretty well the first couple of rounds, but then we get into the picture round and hit a music round that is mostly music from the 60s-70s - needless to say we began totally tanking on our point scores.

We go into the final round somewhere around 2nd or 3rd to last. The last round is always double points and in this case (because several questions had two answers), there was a potential for 24 or so points. Well, the questions are all movies/t.v. shows/actors and we ACE it!! The score is enough to pull us into 7th place (there were either 12 or 14 teams) - woohoo! Well, there's always a team in the middle that gets a prize - and we were it!

No, we didn't technically "win" as in first place, but hey, we did win that middle place prize. :-)

Some of the best things about the quiz nights:
*for some reason we must have a sign on our back that says, "We're Americans, we don't know these things. Help." because without a doubt, every week, someone jumps in to be our advisor on questions. :-)
*The guy who does the quiz is hilarious in his ability to make you think you got the answer wrong. Question: In what year was barbed wire invented? his answer is usually something like "1875.......is wrong. It was 1874." but all you hear is that first number and think you've totally missed it.

Well there you go. I can definitely suggest a quiz night at a local pub - it's a great way to get to know a group of people, gives you something in common, and is just a lot of fun!