Courter’s Yankee Invasion

We won the pub quiz last night! OK, we didn’t win, but we got second place. OK, we got second place at first until the guy realized he had made an addition error. So, we got third place! The name of our team was appropriately called “Courters Yankee Invasion” – won a big Easter Egg….yippee. As we walked up to claim our prize, the announcer looked at us, and before we spoke said in a very dry, monotone voice, “So, I’m assuming you’re the Yankee Invasion.” Was it written on our face?

Another quick note as I need to get in the shower to do more of Bristol…spent Sunday in Bath watching Jocko run the half marathon. He did his P.B. with a time of 1 hour 38 minutes. We were very proud of him with our pink and white pom poms. Wanna see a little video of us being interviewed? About half way through (1 minute, 32 second mark) you should see two very American ladies.

Off to Bournemouth tonight, Portsmouth tomorrow, London on Thursday and Friday, Chepstow Horse Racing on Saturday, Girls Night out in Bristol Saturday night, and English roast on Sunday!

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eoshea

p.s they call it british summer time
TheLadyWhoLunches

They call what British Summer Time?
eoshea

rats! I need to work on my trivia! but I always tank in the sports.
TheLadyWhoLunches

Another one was - which sport does neither the participants nor the spectators know the score until the end?
eoshea

um american football?
meglopes

Baseball! The pitcher has the ball or the outfield, and the batters can be walked and score by running the bases. Clever, eh?
eoshea

What kind of questions were in the pub quiz?
TheLadyWhoLunches

There were four rounds - the first round was "This Week in the News" - the second was an all or nothing round of random questions, 3rd was Music and 4th was sports (Jock obviously had the sports one down). All in all, there were lots of English news questions, but now that I live here I know a lot more. One was "In sports, what sport does the defending team always have possession of the ball, and the attacking team can score while never touching the ball?"
eoshea

So you tour Bristol from the shower? Intriguing! Will we see it that way too? :-)
Michelle

I always get a bit bored by the idea of a Pub Quiz, but feel forced to say yes because the ones Im invited to are for one charity or another. But then I arrive, we settle in, I get a measure of my team mates and the evening becomes really fun!! I actually love them. Glad you enjoyed yours!
TheLadyWhoLunches

Courtney had never heard of one before this. (I don't think I had either) - was so much fun! I'm pretty competitive by nature so it was hard core...lots of laughs though.
TheLadyWhoLunches

Courtney had never heard of one before this. (I don't think I had either) - was so much fun! I'm pretty competitive by nature so it was hard core...lots of laughs though.