May 2012
1 post
Yip
I’m sure you will delighted to hear that after several disappointing weeks The Dregs were finally victorious. Unfortunately it was a very low turnout tonight and the prize money was reduced from £50 to £30. Still a win’s a win.
April 2012
2 posts
Tonight...
The Dregs managed only 4th place, ten points behind the suspiciously high-scoring “Table 19”. We didn’t know what a carambola was, who had a hit with “Only Sixteen”, who starred on the 1979 TV series “Quatermass”, or the year Jane Austen was born. Must try harder.
Dawkeye
March 2012
4 posts
Now then
Since I am now apparently unsacked, I must report that last week the Dregs came third, but with the return of myself and Barry this week improved on that to come third again. We will be drowning our sorrows with SteveR’s home-brew this weekend.
Dawkeye
Belated Log
Normally left to Dawkeye - but as he has abandoned his duties I shall step in.
We came second. So free Newcastle Brown Ales.
Thanks to Dawkeye for winning the second place tie-break.
Putting that aside, the bad news is that Dawkeye is sacked for failing to post a blog on time.
The team is getting smaller as I have already sacked SteveC for not turning up on Thursday due to watching Manchester...
So...
The Dregs were denied their rightful win this week by the “Famous Five”, whose cunning strategy of answering more questions correctly than we did pushed us back into second place. However there was plenty of free beer to go around to ease the pain.
Dawkeye
Fifties
After a short hiatus The Dregs returned to the quiz tonight, and to their surprise, scored 50 points to take home the £50. Nice.
Dawkeye
February 2012
2 posts
Close....
…but no cigar, as The Dregs are pushed into third place and deprived of their rightful prize by a mere half-point in tonight’s particularly tricky quiz.
In other news; next week two groups of over-paid nitwits will be propelling a ball from one end of a field to the other while surrounded by bellowing idiots, which is apparently sufficient excuse to cancel the quiz.
Dawkeye
Dreg update
Apparently the Dregs did extremely poorly last week, which is not a surprise since BeerLeg was falling off a French mountain on a tea-tray, and I was busy sleeping. However, we were back to full strength this week and put in a remarkably good performance considering the acres of empty space on the answer sheet. Thanks to some last minute creative guesswork we managed to pull off a respectable...
January 2012
3 posts
A most satisfactory evening...
…as the Dregs record their first win of the year, thanks to some inspired guesswork, and voyages into our collective “mind palace”, resulting in a clear win by 2 points, and pushing last weeks winners “The Locals” back into second place.
Dawkeye
Bière
The Dregs took home the free beer tonight, having talked ourselves out of several correct answers that would have meant we could have won easily. Instead we came one point behind worthy winners “The Locals”. I trust this is not setting a trend for 2012.
Cheers.
Dawkeye
December 2011
4 posts
Last quiz
The Dregs, minus BeerLegKing who claimed to be incapacitated owing to over-indulgence in cocktails, managed only a close third place in tonights quiz.
See you all next year!
good news everyone...
… the Dregs came in 2nd place tonight, only a point or two behind the “Famous Five”, and arranged to defer their prize of free beer until next week. So we are expecting everybody to show up for the Christmas Quiz.
Dawkeye
Bah!
The Dregs came joint second tonight with arch-rivals “The Famous Five”, and I went up for the tie break. The question was “In what year did the United Arab Emirates join the United Nations”. I guessed 1968, my rival 1972. In fact it was 1971, so they won the free beers and the Dregs walked home empty-handed.
My Tie-Break Tally now looks like this:
Won 10 ...
as expected...
… we didn’t win for a third week in a row, but somehow managed to come fourth despite being only three points behind worthy winners “The Locals”.
Dawkeye
November 2011
4 posts
And again......
The Dregs, much to their surprise, gained another win tonight, scoring 49 points to come joint first. We and another team fought it out over the following question : In what year was “The Far Pavilions” shown on TV? I guessed at 1982. In fact it was 1984, so we won the cash!
My Tie-Break Tally now looks like this:
Won 10
Lost : 4
Dawkeye
October 2011
1 post
Ladies night
The Dregs were once more the winners tonight, by a single point. This was in no small measure due to the assistance of our surprise guests, Kate and Rachel, who filled several gaps in our knowledge base. Let’s hear it for the girls!
Dawkeye
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
5 posts
Interesting Fact
Vicky, who is the Clarendon pub’s landlady and occasional quiz mistress, is the daughter of the distinguished novelist Sue Townsend, the author of the Adrian Mole books.
SteveR
Dregs Unplaced in Pub Quiz Shambles
With the regular pub quiz mistress still away doing something or other in Africa, the pub landlady took over MC duties last night. Regrettably, she consumed a few too many alcoholic beverages over the course of the evening which adversely affected her ability to control the quiz. By the time she very belatedly read out the results, most teams (and most members of the Dregs) had long gone home. The...
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July 2011
2 posts
blockheads
The Dregs continue their precipitous slide into mediocrity by dropping from third place last week to fifth tonight. Remember when people hated us because we nearly always won? Those were the days.
Dawkeye
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down and out
Yet another poor performance by the Dregs saw the plucky underdogs unplaced for the third week in a row, soundly beaten by the insufferable Famous Five.
Dawkeye.
June 2011
3 posts
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May 2011
4 posts
Shamed
We only managed fourth place tonight, which is frankly not good enough. Table 19 were the winners, beating the Locals on a tie-break. I blame our poor showing on the large number of sport-related questions in tonight’s quiz, as sport is definitely our weakest area of knowledge. The only one of us who knows anything about sport is part-time Dreg Scrumpy Chris, who was sadly absent tonight....
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So close...and yet...
The Dregs were robbed of their rightful free beer by a single point tonight, coming third out of twelve teams.
Could you have helped?
* Whose album of 2000 was the fast-selling ever in the US?
* What was the title of Emily Brontë’s first novel?
* Which film, directed by Elia Kazan, won Marlon Brando the Oscar?
* What vegetable derives its name from the Greek word for...
Poor
There was only Dawkeye and BeerLegKing present to maintain the honour of the Dregs tonight. Unfortunately we did a piss-poor job, coming 5th out of 9 teams, and leaving an exultant Famous Five to walk off with the cash prize.
Dawkeye
April 2011
12 posts
Q. Where did Barry Manilow's "girl" come from?
We were puzzled by this question and ended up putting “Havana”, as that city is mentioned in his song Copacabana. However, when the quiz papers were marked, we were told the actual answer was “Ipanema”! This is, of course, absolute bollocks. I have done a google, and I can find no evidence that Barry Manilow ever recorded a version of The Girl From Ipanema. Every other...
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Dregs Top Tip
After recklessly cycling home from the pub, fuelled by Doombar, at a breakneck speed in greedy anticipation of sinking the second prize of a Newcastle Brown Ale carried in one’s rucksack, let the beer settle before opening it. This way you avoid a massive mopping up operation of overfrothing beer on the kitchen floor.
BLK
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Bother
Another disappointing performance by The Dregs last night, edged into third place by The Locals, and roundly trounced by an exultant Famous Five.
Dawkeye
Clinched the Newcastle Browns!
BLK
March 2011
3 posts
Third
We only managed third place tonight and so missed out on any prizes. Table 19 took first place, while the Famous Five came second. Disappointing.
SteveR