The pub is owned by Robinsons and has held a good reputation for the condition of its beers for many years and this was no exception – in fact there was an excellent hoppy light beer on that we’d not seen before (but have forgotten what it was called!!!). The team are old adversaries and good
friends and the evening was spent in good spirits. One question in particular (56 in the General Knowledge) gave Bob the opportunity to tell one of his favourite jokes – that if the cat had been going the other way Percy Shaw would have invented the pencil sharpener.
The questions had been set by the Knot ‘Arf , old friends again, and covered a wide variety of subjects including the latest additions to the Oxford English Dictionary (neologisms)– but in fact the scoring on both sides was very low, and several rounds passed with no or just one 3 
being scored. At the end of the specialist rounds, the Lemmings had slipped ahead with 53 to 38 – a lead of 15!! In the General Knowledge, the Flag fared rather better and steadily ate into the Lemmings’ lead taking those rounds with 78 to 66.
Nick’s ambitions were demolished throughout the evening – usually very cautious and quick to confer, he was determined to score on the night – and threw away valuable points on several occasions leaving his team open-mouthed at his wrong answers – he equalled his personal worst!!
Final score was 119 to 116 in favour of the Lemmings – a very narrow victory that could so easily have gone the other way
Individual points were Bob 9/15, Wendy 9/6, Nick 0/6 and Tomo 18/12; conferred points were 7/16 with 10/11 pass-overs. The Flag collected 7/16 pass-overs.
Finishing with a fine selection of sandwiches many thanks to the landlord and to the team for a very pleasant evening.
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One of those nights when a score of 30 is worth its weight in gold - well done Mr. Thompson, and Andy Johnson from the game I QMd. All rather tight at the top now. (albeit with a gap down to third and the "safety" of another year in the B league).
Had to smile at a run of questions that went, in my fixture (Wharf vs. Nags) to the wrong teams - the Nags got the Roger Hargreaves and Che Guevara questions, whilst the Wharf picked up the one about the pub in Fools and Horses.
Don't know if it cropped up elsewhere, but our initial consensus that Mendelssohn was responsible for "Here Comes the Bride" rather than Wagner did turn out to be ill-founded.
The ratio of moon:sun size and "First World Problem" (the latter not helped by the emergence of "Middle Class Problems" which could equally have satisfied the neologism question) were the most armadilloesque moments, I thought.
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