Quiz Night

It was quiz night in the school hall on Thursday night, and I actually got invited! More for entertainment value than contribution value... We ate a very bland veggie curry, and when I asked for some salt to try and give it a bit of flavour I was told that schools don't have salt and aren't allowed to add it....they should have put BYO salt on the invite not BYO booze. The first round was to name 6 very obscure flags... my team got them all bar one, a blue flag with a Union Jack flag in one corner and a sheep coat of arms in the other ..... my incredibly lucky guess.. The Falkland Islands was right! A flock of black birds is a 'murder', a group of chicks is a 'clutch' not 'Wags' as we put. Then there was the tasting round... I excelled at this, name the flavour crisp, fresh herb, cheese and chocolate.... not only did I give lime and chili flavour for the chocolate.. I knew the brand was Montezuma's AND the cocoa solids content.. surely an extra point! Then the bone of contention question... Who played Hannibal Lecter? The answer is actually both Anthony Hopkins and Brian Cox, Brian played him in the original film Manhunter.. so we (well not me) naturally put both names down ... the answer came as being Anthony with no mention of Brian.. UPROAR! Our markers tried to penalise us by giving us half a point! The rhyming slang round.. apple and pears, skin and blister, whistle and flute... "These questions are too BRIGHT AND BREEZY" I shouted out...Oops, was that really me? Unfortunately yes as everyone turned and gave me daggers. Would have been OK if I hadn't got one PETE TONG!