Thanks to several weeks of preparation and planning by Alan Tapp and son Michael, we held another extremely successful and fiendishly challenging, but hugely enjoyable Blue Coat Quiz on Friday 14th March. There was an excellent turn-out from the Parents Association who helped run the Bar, took entrance tickets & fees, sold spot prize score-sheets, raffle tickets & cross-checked the highly contended score sheets to ensure fair play.

There were around 20 teams competing for the coveted Blue Coat Quiz Trophy Shield and cash prize with First Place going to quiz team: ‘The Not So Magnificent Seven’. In a close second were : ‘Relative Density’ and in Third place: ‘Nor Can Moyes’.

Individual prizes were won by a variety of teams for ‘between round’ competitions, the most notable winner being an answer to ‘How many episodes of Brookside were there in it’s 21 year run?’. Rather frighteningly, one team was accurate to within 6 episodes of the actual 2915! This made the rest of us feel rather pleased that we clearly get out more than others.

In total around 150 attended the evening, with a good mix of Students, Parents and Staff. For those that didn’t make it this year – please do try and give it a whirl next year.

Rob Lockyer, Chair of the PA