On Saturday 5 May, three members of our Club and their family and friends tried to snatch the coveted Annual Silver Hook Trivia trophy from last year's winners, RC Cheltenham.
Named the M&M's for RC Moorleigh Moorabbin, they were seated at the number one table and secretly hoped that this was an omen for things to come.
The pressure mounted with each each passing round. Our Club was the clear leader by one point on the board but there was no time to slacken. With each wrong question our collective groans signified our desperation to win that Silver Hook.
Syd demonstrated his trivia prowess in geography while Sheila blitzed the Shows & Music section leading our rowdy table to sing operatic show tunes much to the amusement of others. Helen even brought her husband Andrew, the carry over champion of Temptation from two nights ago, all in an attempt to win. And who said we weren't competitive?
By the last round, we were the clear winners but there was one last trivia sheet to answer before the final announcement was made.
"Put the names to the faces of these Australian Prime Ministers, " the host asked.
He may as well asked us to derive a highly complex mathematical function. Our jaws dropped, we scrutinised the badly photocopied faces and guessed with the hope that something, anything was a right answer.
Does he look like Curtin? How did Curtin look like? Did he have a moustache? Didn't they all have moustaches back then?
Alas it was not to be. The Gods were not with us at Sandringham Yacht Club. Instead, we came in third after only successfully providing 11 correct answers out of a possible 20 prime ministers.
No we weren't sore losers but we did have a good time. We didn't bring the Silver Hook to RC Moorleigh Moorabbin but there's always next year.
Named the M&M's for RC Moorleigh Moorabbin, they were seated at the number one table and secretly hoped that this was an omen for things to come.
The pressure mounted with each each passing round. Our Club was the clear leader by one point on the board but there was no time to slacken. With each wrong question our collective groans signified our desperation to win that Silver Hook.
Syd demonstrated his trivia prowess in geography while Sheila blitzed the Shows & Music section leading our rowdy table to sing operatic show tunes much to the amusement of others. Helen even brought her husband Andrew, the carry over champion of Temptation from two nights ago, all in an attempt to win. And who said we weren't competitive?
By the last round, we were the clear winners but there was one last trivia sheet to answer before the final announcement was made.
"Put the names to the faces of these Australian Prime Ministers, " the host asked.
He may as well asked us to derive a highly complex mathematical function. Our jaws dropped, we scrutinised the badly photocopied faces and guessed with the hope that something, anything was a right answer.
Does he look like Curtin? How did Curtin look like? Did he have a moustache? Didn't they all have moustaches back then?
Alas it was not to be. The Gods were not with us at Sandringham Yacht Club. Instead, we came in third after only successfully providing 11 correct answers out of a possible 20 prime ministers.
No we weren't sore losers but we did have a good time. We didn't bring the Silver Hook to RC Moorleigh Moorabbin but there's always next year.
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