Never having met one another until the last minute, denied the opportunity to mug up on the oddity of the whiptail lizard or the speed of the Mako Shark, only the inability to tell our Sun Yat Sen from our Chiang Kai Shek stood between the band of misfits and ne'er-do-wells that our very own, if slightly ageing, David assembled in the cave of Adullam, known also among the heathen as the Dining Chamber of the Hacks, and the runners-up spot in the resuscitated FCC quiz.
Notwithstanding all that, we still had the consolation of finishing five points ahead of theWebbmeister and his merry Mens, proving in the process that having an IQ of 160 is no use if you can't even remember that Christopher Plummer played old Nosey against Rod Steiger's Boney in the epic 1970 version of Waterloo, the film that launched a thousand Abba hits.
And note to Wendy, the otherwise excellent quizmistress: it was Trevor Howard, not Marlon Brando, who played Captain William Bligh in the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty.
Notwithstanding all that, we still had the consolation of finishing five points ahead of the
And note to Wendy, the otherwise excellent quizmistress: it was Trevor Howard, not Marlon Brando, who played Captain William Bligh in the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty.
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And the film in which Elizabeth Taylor portrayed Cleopatra was called Cleopatra, not Antony & Cleopatra, as the quizmeistress announced. Two obvious errors makes one wonder if there were other errors made as well.
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