Another pub quiz one
It involves me, but I (for a change) wasn't being the childish one.

A bit of background - one of the pub quizzes I go to when I'm home over the summer is in a very nice pub about ten miles from my house. You pay £1 to enter and there can be up to a hundred competitors. At the end of the night the quizmaster asks a ludicrously hard general knowledge "rollover" question. Get it right, you get 50% of the entry money. Get it wrong and the money rolls over to the next week.

Some previous questions include "How much money, to the nearest million, did the royal family spend last year?" and "In a recent survey to find the most typically British things, what came 13th?"

The time I'm talking about, however, the question was "What was the first object photographed in colour?". The prize money had reached over £200. And I knew the answer. It was the photographer's wife's hair ribbon. I wrote hair ribbon. I was rubbing my hands with glee, knowing the money was mine. The quizmaster walked over.

"Sorry mate. I've got 'Tartan ribbon' written down here. Oh well. Better luck next time."



I have no words. To this day, that remains possibly the most petty, childish thing I've ever experienced. Childish is not always good.
( MatJ LOOK, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 18:39, 3 replies)

Comiserations
On the twart of a QM
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 21:47, closed)

that's not childish
that's being a fucking rip-off merchant and a cunt.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 21 Sep 2009, 1:35, closed)

This.
If the quizmaster at my local tried something like that on our "end of quiz rollover", he'd get fucking lynched.
(Scritty Bakerman., Mon 21 Sep 2009, 9:29, closed)