The cathedral's impressive now, but what it must have been like when first completed, with a much less developed town around it must have been mind-boggling (and when the castle across the road wasn't the semi-ruin it is now). Of course being able to take a few hundred years to complete your building project does help!
It was a general knowledge quiz in general, with a couple of cathedral questions thrown in at the start and finish. One of which I couldn't have answered if I hadn't had a wheel around reading the various displays during the interval, the other answered by the leaflets on joining the Friends of the Cathedral that were scattered across the tables - but with a couple of cathedral guides on the team we didn't need the help.
There were 8 question rounds on things like culture and geography. I correctly remembered that to get from Norway to North Korea you only need to pass through one other country, Russia; and we were all impressed when one of the team managed to remember that the 'artist who had a pug called {whatever}' was Hogarth. One round was a music round with the shortest of clips of film tune intros to identify, some little more than about 10 notes, all cutting off before the vocals began, mostly fairly early stuff, but one of the team, who has a 3yo, correctly identified the main song from Frozen, lamenting he has to listen to it at least 3 times a week. I'm hopeless at those, so always impressed when the rest of the team spot things like From Russia With Love, or Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
There were also three 'table rounds', where you have a sheet of questions to answer collectively through the evening. One was shots from films, mostly of characters but one was the spinning top from Inception. Our film buff got most of those before I ever saw it, but I managed to spot that the snow-covered face wasn't Leonardo di Caprio in The Revenant, but Omar Sharif in Dr Zhivago. The second was match the quotation with images of the person - we had a long debate as to whether one image was Jane Austen or Elizabeth Fry - there was a quote on prison conditions we couldn't match to anyone, but where Fry might have fitted (it was Austen). And the third one was matching cryptic crossword style clues to pictures of food items - 'aged seaman' = 'salt' etc.
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It was a general knowledge quiz in general, with a couple of cathedral questions thrown in at the start and finish. One of which I couldn't have answered if I hadn't had a wheel around reading the various displays during the interval, the other answered by the leaflets on joining the Friends of the Cathedral that were scattered across the tables - but with a couple of cathedral guides on the team we didn't need the help.
There were 8 question rounds on things like culture and geography. I correctly remembered that to get from Norway to North Korea you only need to pass through one other country, Russia; and we were all impressed when one of the team managed to remember that the 'artist who had a pug called {whatever}' was Hogarth. One round was a music round with the shortest of clips of film tune intros to identify, some little more than about 10 notes, all cutting off before the vocals began, mostly fairly early stuff, but one of the team, who has a 3yo, correctly identified the main song from Frozen, lamenting he has to listen to it at least 3 times a week. I'm hopeless at those, so always impressed when the rest of the team spot things like From Russia With Love, or Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
There were also three 'table rounds', where you have a sheet of questions to answer collectively through the evening. One was shots from films, mostly of characters but one was the spinning top from Inception. Our film buff got most of those before I ever saw it, but I managed to spot that the snow-covered face wasn't Leonardo di Caprio in The Revenant, but Omar Sharif in Dr Zhivago. The second was match the quotation with images of the person - we had a long debate as to whether one image was Jane Austen or Elizabeth Fry - there was a quote on prison conditions we couldn't match to anyone, but where Fry might have fitted (it was Austen). And the third one was matching cryptic crossword style clues to pictures of food items - 'aged seaman' = 'salt' etc.