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
DumbFutherMuckers
The massive collective brainpower - equalled only by a Cray Supercomputer - of SteveC, NormC and the BLK was combined then harnessed tonight for the Dregs’ performance at The Clarendon quiz.
We came second from last.
It was hard though.
And we weren’t given a pencil.
BLK
No Entry
No entry for The Dregs tonight
SteveR - Having some kind of tests
Dawkeye - Got the lurgy
SteveC - Stranded in the Irish sea
BLK - Drank two pints, read two newspapers and got called boring by Philthy Phil after refusing to join The Famous Five
There is always next week
BLK
February 2011
6 posts
Piss Poor Performance & Polish Prostitutes
A skeleton team comprising The Beerlegking and SteveC - with a partial appearance by Scrumpy Dreg - scored a lowly 26 points.
The winners were The Famous Five.
Philthy Phil was last seen heading towards Highfields’ red light area, grasping a fistul of fivers and cackling. No doubt in search of cheap Eastern European love.
BLK
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Third Place!
The winners were an unknown team to us called the Five Heads with a score of 47.
Second place was given to The Locals with 45.
We scored 41.
No sign of Philthy Phil or his team of The Famous Five.
SteveR was celebrating his Chinese roots - gōng xǐ fā cái!
Mark E Dreg was absolutely comatose due to the effects of Carling
BLK
January 2011
7 posts
Sue these bastards! →
They’ve gone and nicked our name!
Steve