Wakapuaka Quiz Night!!

For a good cause, we'd do almost anything, so it was pretty easy to say "You betcha!" to Wakapuaka Quiz Night, the local elementary school fundraiser. What better way to raise money than to offer parents a night without the kids, full of fun quiz challenges, and the opportunity to spend money getting drunk all in the name of a new playground. Brian and I came up with a Canadian-plus-one-Kiwi-plus-one-American team called the Spangled Maple Ferns. But our American friend couldn't make it, so we became just the Maple Ferns. The questions were kind of hard considering only one of us was from New Zealand, especially the "General Kiwi" category, which was intended to be the easy round. Difficulties went out the door when it came to the rounds involving audio clips from movies and music. Yes, we kicked butt at those rounds thanks to the countless hours we all spent watching television and listening to the radio when we were younger. I was pretty excited when they played the intro to The Muppet Show! Here's a short clip showing the excellency of our team knowledge of television theme songs:

The fun in poking fun at Brian for recognizing Roxette's Joyride was pretty priceless. He blamed that knowledge on his sister.

Here's another clip of us getting one of the audio answers correct.

Our knowledge of popular radio fare got us a whopping 7.5 out of 10, and a prize for having skunked the rest of the teams, none of whom scored higher than 2 on that category. That was our only glory moment of the night, and sadly not the TSN Turning Point (difficulties arose quickly again after the audio file competitions were complete).

One part of the competition had us put hands on the head for questions that were "True" and hands on the butt for questions that were "False". Hopefully that fully explains the following photo:

Cakes and treats were hand delivered to each team during the intermission. The girls ate chewy chocolate cake:

Ever seen a Smartie the diameter of a twoonie? It tasted twice as good.

In the end, everyone got a prize, but you got to select your prize in the order of winning teams. We came out 13th out of twenty teams. Not too bad of a result, but it meant that we had to wait our turn to go to the prize table until it was likely that all that was left were "Tampons and Marmite", as Dallen, our teammate, said.

Brian and I managed to score some entertaining books as prizes for the night. The Action Heroine's Handbook, which gives ladies-in-heroine-training some ideas as to "how to win a catfight, drink someone under the table, choke a man with your bare thighs, and dozens of other TV and movie skills."

The other book we won is an erotic bestseller about some teenage girl's diary... "A wisp of a book with a wallop of an impact" writes the New York Times. What's that supposed to mean? I don't think this will fit into my backpack when I go back to Canada....