On Thursday 31 May we took over The Earlham Arms on Earlham Road, Norwich, to deliver a knowledge testing evening of informal networking and team building. Over 80 attendees joined us at our annual quiz to make 14 determined teams all competing for bragging rights of being the Norfolk Chamber Pub Quiz winners. The evening of quizzing was made up by 6 rounds, including two table top rounds. Norfolk Chamber staff took part by writing rounds for the quiz, and coming along for the evening to present their questions. As delegates arrived the drinks started flowing and they began work on their first table top round, naming the companies behind famous slogans. When the quiz got started the pub fell quiet as Nova kicked things off with a geography round. The questions were tough for all except team ‘Bills + Thieves’ who scored 9/10! Jack was up next presenting his film and TV round, featuring popular shows such as Breaking Bad, Pokémon and Parks and Recreation. Once the answers were read and scores so far counted, we took a break to enjoy some tapas served by The Earlham Arms. Throughout the break we swapped the table top round to spots questions, asking teams to name famous sporting legends in the images given. When the quizzing resumed Joe gave teams the answers to the table top slogan sheet. This was then followed by Philippa presenting a tough round on arts and culture, featuring plenty of Norfolk based questions to get the teams searching their brains. Up next was the moment we’d all been waiting for; Chris was presenting the music round. Teams heard clips from 10 songs with a word blanked out, they had to guess what the blank word was. To make it easier, all the blanked words were body parts. This round included some singing and interesting dance moves from Chris, and saw ‘Team GGS’, ‘Bills + Thieves’ and ‘Tiger Eye AKA King Quizzard + the Lizard Wizards’ score top marks with 10/10. Jack closed the quizzing by giving the answers to the sports table top round and we collected the final scores. Not only did they have the longest team name in quiz history, but ‘Tiger Eye AKA King Quizzard + the Lizard Wizards’ were also crowned winners with a total score of 54.5 out of a possible 77. They left victorious along with their medals, some chocolates and free tickets to our bowling night. You can see the full scoreboard from the evening below: Position: Team Name: Score: 1st Tiger Eye AKA King Quizzard + the Lizard Wizards 54.5 2nd Bills + Thieves 52 3rd Team GGS 50 3rd If you know the answer you know the answer 50 4th Mattioli Woods 49.5 5th Liftshare 48.5 6th Always Huge Potential 45.5 7th What Skills Gap! 44 8th Cozens-Hardly Know Anything 43 9th Blame Bailey 42 10th Price Bailey 41.5 11th The gloves are off 39.5 12th Steele the Show 38.5 13th The Hopefuls 35
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