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It was the annual Christmas Quiz Night at The Baaamy Inn, ‘it’s a bit of a challenge, are you lot ready?’ asked Arthur; Walter nodded, Solomon groaned, Fred raised his glass and Colin said, ‘you look more orangey than redy Freddy, been using that spray tan again?’.
They were up against a team of nurses called Bedside Manners, some lawyers called Brief Encounter and six other assorted teams; ‘we need a name’ said Fred, ‘Farmers Using Combined Knowledge’ joked Corny Colin but they decided against it when Walter realised what the acronym was, and so they settled on the Awesome Agriculturists.
They got off to an inauspicious start; useless at music, hopeless at history and clueless with general knowledge, but when question 6 asked the name the longest word in The Oxford English Dictionary, Walter leapt to his feet and yelled ‘antidisestablishmentarian’ thereby giving the correct answer to every other team in the pub!
‘Okay clever-clogs, I bet you don’t know what’s at the bottom left hand corner of page 168 of the dictionary’ murmured Colin to Walter, ‘go on, tell us Colin’, ‘168’ chuckled Colin.
Unsurprisingly, thanks to Corny Colin they did quite well in the Silly Section; question 1, what’s the King of Swaziland called?’, ‘your majesty’ … question 2, what cheese is made backwards? ‘edam’ … question 3 how many letters are there in the Christmas alphabet, ‘twenty five, there’s noel’ … question 10 , what do you call a magic dog? ‘a labracadabrador’ …!
Despite their short lived run of good luck, Fred, Arthur, Walter, Solomon and Colin, aka the Awesome Agriculturalists, came last and won the boobie prize, a pair of little Christmas puddings each topped with a glacé cherry!
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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting.
Each time your name comes up in the reader I say … I’m just going to pass this one up because my sides are hurting from splitting from and spitting from laughter. But I’m always glad I don’t. 🙂
I’m both sorry and not sorry for causing you such pain M’lady!
I feel your sorrow.
I especially liked calling the magic dog ‘a labracadabrador’. Nice bunch of characters who frequent The Baaamy Inn.
They’re an odd lot and not unlike the locals at the country village pub that I once ran!
Very funny. Love corny jokes. I do remember the longest word question from an old TV show. Then someone came up with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. So there!
How on earth did you remember that? Apparently, there’s an English word with1906 letters, but being a technical expression it’s not included in the dictionary!
I can remember all sorts of junk; just not anything important.
Loved your questions and answers!
I find it both amazing, heartening and thoroughly depressing how, as I grow old, the availability of totally random facts and information is growing. Not that I mind being able to hum the theme song of a tv show that I enjoyed at the age of six, it’s just that it hits me, ‘No wonder I’ve trouble remembering where my car keys are, it’s been evicted by Trivia Brothers Moving and Storage!
fun Six, Keith
Keith your reading of your story is so fun. Hilarious. Labracadabrador…LOL!!
Hurrah for the puddings! Fun Keith.
What fun, Keith, especially those hard things!!
A prize they probably all enjoyed!
I’d happily take the puddings hehe. Thanks for making us laugh, Keith
Just wrote a post about using puns in books titles. You’d be so good at coming up with those. 😉
You’re so clever, Keith!
Call the doctor: I have an ache from a-pun-dicitus!
Perhaps I should add a pun warning in future!
Naw. We all know what we’re getting into. We enjoy it thoroughly! 🐧