h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We had our local English Christmas "do" here in town last night.

There have been many foreign students at the university here and plenty of them are expat British or Irish. Many have stayed on in the town, having got married or having children during their time at the university. This crowd organise a turkey dinner in a students' pub around this time every year.

So last night all the crowd (who originally come from places like Margate, Glasgow, Manchester, Belfast) were together for a chat, a meal and a Pub Quiz.

Tony and Stewart had made up a really hard quiz - too hard for Christmastime. The marks were quite low. There was a fair mixture of German and English questions. Anyway, well done boys, because it's hard work to put a quiz together and it was fun anyway.

Next time we'll put in a bit ourselves and organise some better singing of carols - everyone there was singing really enthusiastically and there are some good voices. We didn't really dare do too much this time because we're not full members of the clique and didn't want to trespass on their evening's plans. I reckon we can do that now.

So watch this space next year - Let's see if we can't get a few of them shedding the odd tear of nostalgia as the evening goes on and the singing gets mellower.

This post looked very and lonely on its own here...thought I'd come along and offer it a loobrush

Well done on organising the quiz...I know how hard this can be, and how you have to try to "pitch" at the right level.

RF

Hi TC - sounds like a good time was had by one and all.

We had a tiny quiz in the office today. A set of initials and we had to put the Christmas Carol title next to it. Although we were only really supposed to go for one answer and let other people do others, I could't resist with AF and ISMKSC. Guesses, anyone?

Sorry, TC, I was busy and missed this.
I wish Germans would do pub quizze, I love quizzes.
Great you had a agood time.

Try your local Irish Pubs, B'El.

AF may be Adeste Fideles, ZSF, but ISMKSC still has me scratching my head. The penny will probably drop while I'm biking to w**k later on.

Got it!


I saw Mummy kissing Santa Claus.

that's the one I got!

Well done - both right!

My local Irish Pub does live music once or twice a week, but no quizzes.

Hope you had a great Christmas.
Ours was really fab, it can be nice to be part of a larger family. We played Trivial Pursuit Worldwide - it's more eographical knowledge that is requested, but I habve to admit that most of the questions were just absurd. We gave lots of clues, though, so we had lots of fun nevertheless.

"We didn't really dare do too much this time because we're not full members of the clique and didn't want to trespass on their evening's plans."

Echoes of hootoo. Hard to accept at first, but truly, all are welcome.

ISMKSC is a *Carol* ???

I wouldn't have classed it as such either, but I still guessed it.

What exactly does the word "Carol" mean? Perhaps I should ask that in the Brit Eng thread.

We've only talked about that last night. There's a very good entry here: A832420
Apparently, it's a very old word.

Òh yes, that is a good entry. It doesn't go deeper, but from what is said there, I think the word probably derives from "chorale".

Seems logic, doesn't it? After all, they used to be religious songs or hymns.

Yes, it makes sense, I think. However, I don't think a carol is necessarily religious. Even in Bels' entry, it says it can be a folk song. I think it's just a jolly, festive, seasonal song.

Which makes it quite difficult for me to tell which songs qualify as carols, and which don't.

'However, I don't think a carol is necessarily religious. Even in Bels' entry, it says it can be a folk song. I think it's just a jolly, festive, seasonal song.'

I'd tend to agree with this. There are carols for other seasons, eg Easter. This gives a good definition: http://www.answers.com/topic/carol