THAME’S top quiz team, The Wild Geese, were de-throned last Friday, when they were beaten by just one point by a team who walked in off the street seven years ago and won that year’s Thame Festival quiz and have been trying ever since to win again.
The Wildgeese team has its name engraved on the Thame Festival Quiz Trophy, 12 times, having won most years since the quiz began in 1993. But last Friday,(June 15), the Ad Hoc team pulled ahead following the final question of the night about the name of Take That’s album.
Quiz Misttess, Sue Boyle explained that the team which gave the exact, right answer would gain two points, and that anything near would earn one point. The Wild Geese just could not pull the answer out of their collective memories, but Ad Hoc came up with ‘Lovely World’. The correct answer of course, is ‘Beautiful World’, earning them the one extra point to take the trophy.
It is expected that the evening, which attracted 15 teams altogether, raised around
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