‘Key’ Inter-Club Quiz Trophy still on Tynemouth Shore
At the end of the recent Inter-Club quiz, it was somewhat remiss of us not to thank everyone over there for welcoming two SSSC teams to enjoy some of their usual Tynemouth hospitality. We do that now even at some distance from the event, whilst explaining however that such oversight was undoubtedly due to the shock of being defeated in the final round of questions on ‘Sailing’ (of all subjects) by such a significant margin running into double figures when, at the interval before the mushy peas, both SSSC teams were well in contention and indeed one of them, the ‘OMEGA-Miracles’, had assumed a two-point decisive tactical lead in this hotly contested comp. between the Clubs, albeit this position being achieved only after a necessary challenge to over-zealous down-marking by a rival Tynemouth team.
The inevitable inquest arising from such a decisive loss however has been informative to say the least, to the extent that it is now well understood why Tynemouth failed to host last year’s quiz. This was undoubtedly because Howard needed yet a further year to finish compiling his questions for the final marathon 40-pointer ‘Sailing’ round to his desired level of obscurity.
The minutiae of this summer’s fine England Ashes victory will undoubtedly find their way into the detailed statistical history since 1864 of that fine sport in Wisden’s Cricket Almanac. Based on our experience at Tynemouth, we must conclude that a similar volume surely exists on ‘Sailing’. We also believe that only Howard and the successful Tynemouth ‘BAR’ team are owners of such a valuable tome. Its importance can be likened only to that of Dr Johnson’s first English dictionary of 1774, discombobulatingly burned by Baldrick. It can be taken that we will be seeking our own copy of this valuable work on sailing for the use of the SSSC-appointed question master and for assiduous study by SSSC teams for the 2014 end of season Inter-Club Quiz to be held at South Shields.
In particular, we will be seeking to verify from such a valuable source, as suggested by the required answer to one of the questions in the now infamous ‘sailing’ round, that Jackie Gebhard, well known in North East sailing circles, is indeed related to a successful team member of a 2012 Olympic sailing crew, or whoever, or whatever. ‘Not a lot of people know that’ to quote one Michael Caine, that famous actor who appeared in ‘Get Carter’ alongside a good friend of mine, the late Alan Hockey, well-known South Shields actor who had to borrow a pair of wellies from another friend of mine, for his role as the scrap dealer in the same film. Not a lot of people know that either. But I do and I am hoping it might come up in a future inter-Club quiz in a ‘local knowledge’ round. Well, enough! We look forward to 2014 and another chance to bring the trophy back across the water…
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