The Champagne Quiz Holiday Extravaganza

* The lights dim as the Quiz Dominatrix and her Able Assistant consult the question cards, the I-Ching, Beevor's Encyclopedia of Common British Songbirds and the back of some old crisp packets found lurking in a corner somewhere, in search of the winner *

* The Quiz Dominatrix clears her throat and awaits silence *

* Has to wait rather longer than she would like so casts a stern look around the room *

Dear quiz competitors, thank you for your efforts in completing this challenge whilst my Able Assistant and I have been away for a very well earned break.



After much deliberation we have come up with a winner. So now I will pass you over to my Able (and rather bronzed) Assistant to give you the details

* The Quiz Dominatrix's looks over her glasses towards a rather unusually coloured GreyDesk *

* He starts to speak *

I wasn't trying to get a suntan. Honest, my dear... It's just the way my skin goes if you expose it to too much strong sunlight...

Oh do get on with it....

Yes dear, sorry dear



After much thought and a little double checking of some contributions that, frankly, we couldn't make head nor tail of; we have decided that Loosehead is the winner of the Champagne Quiz Holiday Spectacular'

* Sound of wild applause and the breaking open of many bottles of *

As the score sheet shows, it was a close run thing and showed up the advantages of:

1. checking your answers before sending them in
2. if you don't know, not guessing (what with the 2 point penalty for incorrect answers)
3. making The Quiz Dominatrix laugh

Absolutely right.



Well done Loosehead .


And well done to you all. Thank you for taking the time to enter. We've both enjoyed it immensely, and I hope you all did too

* Sound for more wild applause and yet further bottles of being opened *

And if you are very lucky we may well do something similar for your entertainment over Christmas

The 'Official Champagne Quiz Holiday Spectacular' Results Table
Researcher	Answered Out of 100	Answered Right	Answered Wrong	Bonus Points	Prizes	Total Points
1. Loosehead	99	84	15	31 2 3		67
2. Cleo	100	86	16	14		65
3. Polidari Wormwood	50	43	7	15		306
4. Master B	99	75	24	27 8		29
5. Dr St. J	10	10	0	29 10		12
6. Flanker	10	10	0	111		11
7. elspeff	10	9	1	0		7
8. Tacsatduck	20	15	5	112		5
9. twptaff	6	2	4	0		-6
10. Narapoia	10	0	10	113		-19

If you want to compare your answers to the 'Official Champagne Quiz Holiday Spectacular' question cards. Then all of the answers are here for your perusal

And should you disagree with any answer I have given, please be aware that rule 2 applies. Which as you are all aware states that The Quiz Dominatrix is never wrong

Before we go, we would like to make one final award for the 'Smart Alec' of the quiz. It has been awarded to the researcher who showed extreme pedantary in Spelling, Grammar and General Facetiousness. Congratulations, the prize goes to Master B

Yes, that's right. Here is your . Enjoy

* The Quiz Dominatrix and her Able Assistant sweep out of the building and back to the usual Champagne Quiz thread back in it's normal place on the Pirate Ship *

¹1st to get all 10 correct in block 7²The Tarzan reference in block 10³The amusing anecdote about puppies and why toilet roll was invented in block 9⁴1st to get all 10 correct in block 2⁵For gratuitous use of the phrase "Oh! Nice bush" in block 4⁶...and had Poli actually submitted the remaining 5 sets of answers on time he would have received an additional , plus 23 extra points and have risen to the dizzy heights of.... well actually the same position as he is right now.⁷1st to get all 10 correct in block 5⁸The inspired answer that the two names were the titles of episodes of Porridge. You were right, it wasn't the answer I was looking for, but it was inspired, so a bonus point for you.⁹Being the first person to spot that if you come to the quiz a bit late then you have a higher probability of getting bonus points for being the first to answer a block correctly if you answer the blocks in reverse order¹⁰1st to get all 10 correct in block 10. (See, told you it worked )¹¹1st to get all 10 correct in block 1¹²For sending the first set of answers we received, just moments after the quiz went live.¹³For so obviously taking the piss