Annual Old Goofers Quiz (6-02-2010) It’s February and Old Gaffers eased themselves painfully out of hibernation to attend the first social event of 2010 – the Annual OGA Quiz Night, at Manningtree. This was the third year that Sue Lewis has organised this event, and about three dozen gaffers and friends squeezed into in the welcoming surroundings the Stour SC bar on February 6th, for another battle of wits. After the first few rounds, the teams were very evenly matched, and even the picture round – where contestants had to identify post war American presidents – failed to separate the teams. It was the hilarious ‘Family Fortunes’ round where several team’s efforts began to unravel; it demanded an ability to think ‘outside the box’ and your editor’s team did itself no favours by calling ‘sex’ as the answer to every question; although appropriate, that answer gained them nil points. But it was the final round that separated the men from the no-hopers; an innocuous question – name the 5 original cinque ports – came with a devilish scoring system; 1 point for a correct answer, -2 for a wrong one. Even the winning team had a negative score. In the end, the winners were Jodie and John (William) and Alison and Julian (Robinetta) by 2 points from Margaret Wainwright and ‘Shippers’ and Yvonne and Rik (Kelpie II). Observant readers will notice that members of your committee are conspicuously absent from the winner’s list – maybe their thoughts were on higher things. After all that mental exercise, everyone trooped downstairs to revive the brain cells with a splendid fish and chip supper, arranged by Julie and Keith from Maryll, which brought to an end a most enjoyable evening. Bernard Patrick.