Two-timing trivia titans
Jahn Burhman and Paul Cosgriff won the glittering prize of RCM Trivia Night Hero for the second time in a row on Friday (11/9). They brought in a top score of 32 out of 47.
The couple are from Sunrise Probus. Asked their secret, Jahn says, “Because Paul has a very inquiring mind and knows a lot. I got him in so he could exercise between his ears.” Paul is a retired Tulla flight controller, while Jahn’s maths teaching career finished with six years running an art gallery at Bicheno, below Launceston. Between the two, they made short work of the “pictogram” section of the quiz.
The quiz was designed by Rose Mandemaker and Gill Ralston, friends of Bearbrass Probus, and orchestrated by IT guru Sue Hoile, Bearbrass’s Secretary.
Attendance of 20 was made up of five RCM, five Bearbrass, five Sunrise Probus and five nondescript. Our Trivia Nights may be unique in combining talents of one Rotary and two Probus Clubs plus friends of any. We are looking into whether 5.30pm Fridays is the best slot as many people have already booked up Friday eve for family and similar Zooms.
The quiz was voted excellent, being NOT TOO HARD but also a bit lively at a sub-Mensa level. Virtually no-one knew that the capital of Turkey was not Istanbul. There were quite a few pictograms of the “I understand” and “Scrambled Egg” ilk – those are the answers, work out the questions if you can. Actually the pictogram “Clerical error” brought from one show-offy contestant the following verse: “The one-l lama he’s a priest; the two-l llama he’s a beatst. And I will bet a silk pyjama, There ain’t no thing as a three-l lllama.” This contestant claimed that fire-brigades actually describe certain fires as a “three alarmer”
