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| CfB Présidente, Allison awards trophies after the quiz. Also pictured is Jim Holland of les perdus |
The café-causerie event this month took the form of a quiz
night billed as le plus grand quiz
français de Belfast. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening which made for
plenty of social interaction.
Our présidente Allison Neill-Rabaux was in charge of
proceedings and was ably supported by her husband, Sylvain, and by colleague
committee member, Drew Miller who managed the scoring process and kept tally on
the various team positions.
Language
If anyone had been concerned that their level of French
might have been insufficient for the rounds of questions then such doubts were
quickly dispelled by the engaging format of the quiz.
Allison and Drew arranged for attendees to form themselves
into teams and to give themselves a group name.
We ended up with half a dozen teams and a pad of response sheets was
allocated to each. One of the rounds was picture-based and before the quiz got
underway discussions about who was in the pictures got team members talking
among themselves.
Rounds
Bringing us to attention, Allison quickly explained the
quizzing process. There would be several
rounds of six questions in each. The questions would be announced by Sylvain
and be simultaneously displayed on screen. Plenty of time was given for teams
to reach agreement on their group response and once recorded the response
sheets were passed from one team to the other for checking. Allison returned to
each question providing the correct answer on screen. For a few of these she took the opportunity
to explain the response so the quiz was also an opportunity to learn something
new. Drew then collected all the scores and compiled
them onto a tally sheet. We had rounds among others on Culture, Cuisine, History,
Sport and as previously mentioned a picture round with items of Franco-Irish
connections.
Stumped
It was this last round that
threw up an item that stumped the whole room. The picture was that of la petite maîtresse de Louis XV and Allison
later was kind enough to share a biography of the woman in question to the
Cercle’s Facebook group. If you haven’t yet subscribed connect here.
As the evening progressed it was obvious just how much those
present had relaxed into the quiz. There
was a little tension as teams vied with each other for the top places but
eventually Drew had calculated the winners, confusingly self-labelled as les perdus.
Allison had thoughtfully provided little trophies to mark
the successful outcome. It was a pity that trophies weren’t provided for
Allison, Sylvain and Drew for their running if the quiz which was great, good
fun and not in the least intimidating. Readers might like to remember that when
it next comes round as we’re sure it will.
When exactly? Now there’s a question.