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By any standard Captain's Chaos & Calm's latest quiz night would have to rate as the best yet. I have never seen club members so engrossed in such good hearted lunacy off the water. In spite of a wet night the car park ran out of space with around 30 members and friends enjoying the evening. |
The assembled maniacs were split into three teams, Port, Starboard and O/D's. For starters each were given an event/date questionnaire. This was devised by Bob Sumner & Janet following their recent trip to the shipyards at Portsmouth. One for history buffs. |
This was followed by rounds of questions to each of the teams just to get everybody 'warmed up'. Captain Chaos's scoring methodology was as original as ever and a fair amount light hearted bantering ensured. |
The next round featured weather forecast areas around the British Isles. Everybody must have heard those famous area names many times during Aunt Beebs shipping forecast … but do you think many got the right names on the right grid references. Did they heck ! The real laugh was when someone pointed out that one of the areas identified was no longer used following some problem with Spain. Cap Chaos was totally un-fazed saying that they might have got Finnistaire, or whatever it was, but they'd never get Gibraltar! |
The next game involved racing three model dinghy's around a squared up course board. Moves where decided by numbers called out, equivalent numbered tags peeled of a score board. Under each tag was either a number or a question. A number indicated how may squares a dinghy could move, A correctly answered question also resulted in a move forward. Forget racing rules … this was a Cap Chaos special, his race, his rules. It was a riot. The whole evening was rounded off with a great cold buffet. |
What else can I say, it was a really good evening. Many thanks to Bob & Janet who obviously put a lot of work into preparing the quiz. Thanks also to Janet and the Aquarius ladies for an excellent supper. Can't wait for Captain's Chaos & Calm's next extravaganza. |
Mike (Over Easy) Baker |
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Maritime Quiz Night - 27 April 2002 |