December’s meeting now takes the form of a general knowledge quiz and in spite of torrential rain outside, more participants turned up than ever before.  Over 6 rounds of 10 questions (not forgetting the festive refreshments half way through), the members “battled” it out accompanied by a chorus of groans when many of the answers were read out.  

So, what was learned? Amongst many others – geography knowledge needs improvement, Finns drink the most coffee per capita, mycology is the study of mushrooms and Charles Lindberg didn’t need windscreen wipers on his plane as there was no windscreen.  Lastly and probably unsurprisingly, more people knew the county flag of Middlesex than that of Surrey!  The winners and those now with a feeling of intellectual superiority, were Table 3.