Quiz night glory

A combined U8s and U7s team managed to grasp victory from the jaws of defeat in the annual Cumnor FC quiz night. Despite thinking that the Orson Welles War of the Worlds fiasco caused panic in 1958 (rather than 1938), "The Odd Eight" team, managed to cling on to their lead in the final stages and beat off late runs from the the U9s and U15s.

Much credit for the victory has to go to man of the match David "Star Wars" Roach, who plumbed the depths of a mis-spent adulthood by naming the majority of celebrities when given their real names. He was supported well by the two Marks whose musical tastes managed to pick up a couple more, Mark Sayers knowing that Robert Zimmerman was in fact Bob Dylan, and Mark Owen knowing that Barry Alan Pinkus was in fact Barry Mannilow.

The referee had a good game, except for minor slips in the True/False round when he failed to count upto 12 correctly, and an over-estimation of the height of the Great Pyramids, which he claimed were only overtaken as the tallest man made structure by the Eiffel Tower. From reliable sources we learn:

"Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one remains: the Great Pyramid. Apart from great, it is specifically high. In fact, it was only with the spire of Lincoln Cathedral in ca. 1300 AD that Mankind was able to surpass its height. Reaching a height of 525 feet, the cathedral’s central spire was destroyed in a storm in 1549. Before, the St Lievens Tower in the Dutch town of Zierikzee was meant to be constructed to a height of over 600 feet, but despite this concept’s support from the Vatican, the tower was never realised. So when the spire of Lincoln Cathedral collapsed, St. Olav's Church, in Tallinn, Estonia became the world’s tallest structure, only minimally smaller than the construction it replaced, at 522 feet. That too, however, was hit by lightning, in 1625, making the Great Pyramid once again the tallest structure on Earth. It was only in 1876, when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Rouen was finally completed, rising to a height of 495 feet, that the Great Pyramid lost its pole position. But the cathedral’s fame was short-lived; in 1880, the Cologne Cathedral reached 515 feet in height. "

oh, and the lawyers beat the doctors in their own internal quiz night:

Yeast are unicellular fungi. The precise classification is a field that uses the characteristics of the cell, ascospore and colony. Physiological characteristics are also used to identify species. One of the more well known characteristics is the ability to ferment sugars for the production of ethanol. Budding yeasts are true fungi of the phylum Ascomycetes, class Saccharomycetes (also called Hemiascomycetes). The true yeasts are separated into one main order Saccharomycetales.