Yesterday was an interesting one. First up was seeing someone in a gorilla suit pushing a trolley round the supermarket at lunch time. He had a camera crew with him, which is understandable really.
Then last night was the quiz of course...oh, the quiz...our Everest for so long. The place had been packed for the last few weeks so me and Rob did the honourable thing and got there 90 minutes before kick off. There was going to be quite a few on our team so we had to be there to secure a couple of tables and enough chairs. The added bonus being that we could sit there, watch the telly and have a couple of pints whilst we waited. Oh, and we got to choose the team name. This week....Magnet and Steel. No one got it unsurprisingly. Click here if you're struggling.
The team was me, Rob, Miller, Leanne and her workmate Jess, Casey, and Anya (works with Miller) and her Uncle, Peter (Vic and Bob reference anyone?). Kat also came along for an hour or so.
It was a battle of epic proportions and went right down to the wire with the final score being the top 3 teams all on 91 points (us included). The tie breaker was "how many years separated the last winner of the ancient olympics and the first winner of the modern olympics?"
I think we put 3000 years, but the actual answer was around 1500. Magnet and Steel finished a very creditable 2nd, our best to date.
It was all very controversial though. First of all, I had to go and contest a score we'd been given in an earlier round because they'd not given us enough points. Then, in the sport round, one of the questions was:
How many London based teams are there in the Premiership?
Me and Rob said 7 but the answer given was 6. The bone of contention was Watford. Technically they aren't in London, but as far as we were concerned they've always been considered a London team. Today Miller has done a bit of research and found this link.
Robbed I tells ya.
Watch this space for more exciting adventures coming up this week. I promise you won't be disappointed...
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I still dont fully understood magnet and steel. I'll pretend you said silk and steel and then i'll be alright.
Brilliant quiz team name owen. well done.
Watford's in Hertfordshire - not London - just because it's inside the M25 doesn't mean it's London - ask anybody form Watford and they'll deny being a London club
everyone knows that Nottingham and below is London.
Magnet and Steel were tv characters made up by Max from Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere
But is Watford in Greater London? Rochdale, Bury, Oldham etc have their own postcodes but are considered Greater Manchester.
Anyway, what's done is done...
Haven't you just proved that you were wrong? Stockport, Oldham etc wouldn't consider themselves to be Manchester clubs, although they come from the Greater Manchester region. I think that your error was in not challenging the question master to define the term 'London-based'.
I think that you'll find Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. It is one of the nine regions of England. The administrative area of Greater London covers the large conurbation which comprises the City of London, the City of Westminster and 31 other London boroughs, and encompasses what is commonly known simply as London, capital of England and the United Kingdom. It covers 1579 km² (609 sq. mi) and had a population of 7,172,036 at the April 2001 census.
As far as I'm aware, Watford is not within any of the (inner or outer) London boroughs, and therefore you were wrong. In your face. Erm, I mean bad luck old chap...
I think the point I was trying to make was that they're not Manchester teams but they're in Greater Manchester. So do you count teams in Greater London as London? Not really relevant if Watford isn't even in Greater London anyway. The link to the London tourism website that says Watford counts is good enough for me.
What do I care? I met Shearer today...
I had a look (its got the nation by the scrote this one gwen) and you can get the the london underground train to vicarage road. I think that pretty much solves that.
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