BUZZ
We are the champions!!
We went to our usual quiz evening last night and decided to call our Team Buzz. The format is they have various rounds and total up the points for 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes which total about $100. At the end they have a difficult Bonus question that jackpots each week, so the prize can be anywhere from $100 to $400. So the real question to answer is the Bonus.
Last night we didn't have what we thought was a good night, getting only 3/10 for the Kiwi Trivia section. However, the bonus question was "What was the last state to join the union prior to Alaska/Hawaii." Our first thought was New Mexico but I suddenly remembered something that the Presidential candidate John McCain was so old that when he was born Arizona was a territory.
So we went with that.
The quizmaster then announced we have a winner - he said a lot said New Mexico but it is Buzz with Arizona. We erupted and I yelled "Good old John McCain". We got $320 amongst the four of us. But thinking about it later, it wasn't John McCain at all. The person I had read about was Barry Goldwater who stood for President in 1964 and was born in Arizona Territory. There was an argument at the time that as he wasn't born in the Union could he stand. Looking later on the Net I see that New Mexico came into the union in January 1912 while Arizona was about a month later that year.
But there was more to come. We were so excited at winning we were not really listening to the results as he read out the teams. We thought we might have missed our name when he got to 4th but lo and behold we came 3rd so it was an overall night of $350.
Sport - Rugby was great - a real old fashioned game with a bit of biff!! As for the one dayers in England we came out OK but the business about Elliot being run out when he was involved in an on field collision forgets about when we ran out Muralitharan when he left his crease to congratulate his partner on making a century. At least Collingwood aplogised - we didn't.
We end on what we started with:
