Xmas work do / Hogshead dinner

[lathany]

Today was both the last review body meeting of the year and also the work quiz. The former meant I had champagne (from the generous Chair) and mince pies and the latter meant quiz questions.

I was very happy as I'm usually bad at quizzes (but want to be better) and this time I got several answers that no-one else did.

• Knowing that a sonnet had 14 lines
• Guessing which of the elements of the first twenty on the periodic table was likely to be the most unpopular when people were asked to name one - well, at least the most unpopular of any named by teams (Boron)
• Correctly naming Rosalind as the heroine from As You Like It
• Attributing a quote to Dr Suess from a list of quotes and people (although, sadly, I missed the Rowlings one)
• Knowing there were 78 cards in a tarot deck
• Recognising Arthur C Clarke from a photo

Our team managed a respectable third place of five.

Update: Forgot to add, but it's obvious - I felt much better in the morning than I had the previous evening.