SPR Autumn Quiz
The Trinity Bell, London EC3, 7 October 2021

For the first time since the start of the COVID pandemic, the legendary SPR quiz competition was held again as an in-person event.  Although relatively small scale compared to previous incarnations, with a limited number of teams to allow for a degree of social distancing in a private room at The Trinity Bell pub, the event proved highly competitive in the best SPR tradition.

It was great to see Andrew Marston back in his quiz master’s chair, ably assisted by committee members Tessa English and David Inskip, who helped host the event.  There were questions of widely varying difficulty on themes such as history, nature and food, TV sitcoms, sport and Scottish geography.  There was also an interesting variation on the ‘beat the intro’ music round, with contestants required to estimate the length of the instrumental intro after hearing the first few bars.

     

The competition was won by the team ‘AY is so fly’ from Avison Young, made up of Natasha Patel, Daryl Perry, Pearl Gillum, Jack Dezitter, Kushay Shah and Mhairi Thomson.  After the joint team from JLL/Knight Frank team had made most of the early running, AY pipped them at the post by 61.5 points to 56.6.  So a new name was inscribed on the coveted SPR Quiz Trophy, while Avison Young also received a case of wine to take back to their office (or not!).

Tim Horsey