Tight at the top!

 Quizmaster was back at Cafe Football this Thursday, quizzing away to Stratford's finest!

3 Blackies won our best team name prize, winning a bottle of house wine!

Third place finishers J.A.K.S rounded up with 34 points!

It was tight at the top, with only one point separating the top two. Two E finished up with 39 points and a £25 bar tab! Great score for a duo...

But it was the equally strong duo of Accuntants (Jihadi Paddy's) who were crowned our winners, with a £30 voucher in their hands!

We're back next Thursday at 7:00pm! Join us then.

Until next time Stratford, drink while you think...

Thursday 5th March 2015 scores:

1. 40 Accuntants (Jihadi Paddy's)
2. 39 Two E 
3. 34 J.A.K.S
4. 26 3 Blackies

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West side winners!

Quizmaster returned to Cafe Football this Thursday on The Street at Westfield Stratford!

Newcomers The Waltons brought the family for a fun evening of trivia this past Thursday, they won our best team name prize!

We saw Spareribs join us late in the game, finishing up with 28 points!

Quiz in your face wrapped up with 35 points...

And Cafe Football dished up their delicious food for our patrons, including the 'All For One.'

Tracy's Birthday consisted of eight players, although their table size suggests otherwise... They finished with 35 points!

Happy Birthday Tracy!

Runners up Bring it, don't sing it won a £25 voucher after they finished the game with 43 points!

San Miguel West Side proved to be the dominant force on the evening, as they scored as MASSIVE 48 points out of 50. The trio won a £30 voucher!

Join us again next Thursday at 7pm!

Until next time Stratford, drink while you think...

Thursday 19th February 2015 scores:
1. 48 San Miguel West Side
2. 43 Bring it, don't sing it
3. 39 The Waltons
4. 37 Football Sucks. Balls!
5. 35 Quiz in your face
6. 32 Tracy's Birthday
7. 28 Spareribs
8. 23 Smurfy

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Article of the Week - Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human lifespan on record, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days.She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, outliving both her daughter and grandson by several decades. Calment became especially well known from the age of 113, when the centenary ofVincent van Gogh's visit brought reporters to Arles.

Calment became the last living documented person born in the 1870s when the Japanese supercentenarian Tane Ikai (born 1879) died on 12 July 1995. Her lifespan has been thoroughly documented by scientific study. More records have been produced to verify her age than in any other case.

Calment was born in Arles on 21 February 1875. Her father, Nicolas Calment (28 January 1838 – 22 January 1931), was a shipbuilder, and her mother, Marguerite Gilles (20 February 1838 – 18 September 1924), was from a family of millers. She had an older brother, François, (25 April 1865 – 1 December 1962). Some of her close family members also lived an above-average lifespan, although none lived anywhere near as long as Jeanne: her older brother François lived to the age of 97, her father to six days shy of 93, and her mother to 86.

According to Calment, she met Vincent van Gogh at the age of 13, when he came into her uncle's shop to buy canvas in 1888. She found him to be "Dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable.

Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85 (1960), she took up fencing, and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday. She was reportedly neither athletic nor fanatical about her health.Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home after a cooking accident (due to complications with sight) started a small fire in her house. However, Calment was still in good shape, and continued to walk until she fractured her femur during a fall at age 114 years 11 months (January 1990), which required surgery.

Calment smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992), though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day towards the end of her life. After her operation, Calment needed to use a wheelchair. In 1994, age 119, she weighed 45 kilograms (99 lb).

Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to a diet rich in olive oil (which she also rubbed onto her skin), as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram (2.2 lb) of chocolate every week. She also credited her calmness, saying, "That's why they call me Calment." Calment reportedly remained mentally intact until her very end.

On 4 August 1997, at 22:45 Central European Time, Calment died, aged 122. After her death, 116-year-oldMarie-Louise Meilleur became the oldest recognized living person.

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Fact hunting at Cafe Football!

Ten teams joined us in Stratford this past Thursday for our weekly quiz at Cafe Football!

30+ players competed for prizes on the evening, as Cafe Football offered up a £30 voucher, £25 voucher and bottle of house wine for the best team name winners!

Newcomers Lady that do!!! kept the entertainment of the evening flowing, providing plenty of banter for the crowd to enjoy. They finished up on 22 points.

It was We love a big fact hunt who won our best team name prize, shocking the ears of many into laughter. We love big fact hunts too. Knowledge is power. They won a bottle of house wine!

Our international team combined a Canadian and a Kiwi to form Canz! The duo finished up with a respectable 25 points. Decent!

Runners up House Hunters raked in 37 points as a foursome, winning a £25 voucher!

But it was QUIZ ON MY FACE who championed their way to first place, winning with 39 points! They won a £30 voucher...

We're back next Thursday at 7pm sharp!

Until next time Stratford, drink while you think...

Thursday 12th February 2015 scores:
1. 39 QUIZ ON MY FACE
2. 37 House Hunters
3. 35 The only way is chives
3. 35 Bottle of wine
5. 33 The Cricketers
6. 32 We love a big fact hunt
7. 27 Hurley Hustlers
8. 25 Canz
9. 22 Lady that do!!!
10. 19 One Scot  

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Article of the Week - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band best known for popularizing the southern hard-rockgenre during the 1970s. Originally formed in 1966 as the The Pretty Ones in Jacksonville, Florida, they then went through two name changes: The Noble Five and One Percent, before coming up with Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1968. The band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tunes "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird". At the peak of their success, three members died in an airplane crash in 1977, putting an abrupt end to the band's most popular incarnation.

In the summer of 1966, teenage friends Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, and Gary Rossington formed the earliest incarnation of the band in Jacksonville, Florida as My Backyard. The band then changed its name to The Noble Five. The band used different names before using One Percent during 1968.

In 1969, Van Zant sought a new name. The group settled on Leonard Skinnerd, a mocking tribute to a physical-education teacher at Robert E. Lee High School, Leonard Skinner, who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair. Rossington dropped out of school, tired of being hassled about his hair. The more distinctive spelling was being used at least as early as 1970. Despite their high school acrimony, the band developed a friendlier relationship with Skinner in later years, and invited him to introduce them at a concert in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum.^[8] Skinner also allowed the band to use a photo of his Leonard Skinner Realty sign for the inside of their third album.

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Not bad for Norfolk...

Quiz night at Stratford's Cafe Football rolled on this week, with seven teams vying for prizes!

Cafe Football served up their famously delicious food for our quiz patrons!

It seems Norfolk was on the minds of our quiz teams this week, with NFN (Normal for Norfolk) showing their quizzing tekkies as they came into the game half way through and still wrapped up with 35 points!

And it was Norfolk-in Chance who came as runners up on the evening, raking in 39 points as a deadly duo!

We're not sure that the bottle-singing Northerner was part of their team...

Elsewhere, Down the drain scored 32 points. 

And it was I just quizzed in your face that won our best team name prize! Classic.

Just winning by a point were quiz regulars Dave & Bob! The gents were crowned champions after finishing 5th last week...

Quiz night returns next Thursday at 7pm!

Until next time Stratford, drink while you think...

Thursday 5th February 2015 scores:
1. 40 Dave & Bob
2. 39 Norfolk-in Chance
3. 35 NFN (Normal for Norfolk)
4. 34 I just quizzed in your face
5. 32 Down the drain
6. 30 Ioan's Army #RAF
7. 22 Part time local

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Fiorentina Turner Thursday!

Quizmaster Trivia was back at Cafe Football in Stratford this week, to test the food and football fans general knowledge for some prizes on offer!

Although We came for football thought it was an all football quiz, they still gathered 40 points and won our best team name prize! (Plus an all football quiz is in the pipeline for March/April time!)

Missing out on a prize in fourth place was All round good eggs, who certainly added some energy to the evening with their enthusiasm.

Runners up This time taking it seriously FC #lastweekswinners returned from last week's win to claim a £25 voucher this week. Unfortunately Quizmaster Sam forgot to snap a picture of the team. What a wolly!

No limit claimed the last place spot, with 26 points.

But returning from last week, we saw the brilliantly named Fiorentina Turner win with 45 points! The trio describing some January transfer action took a two-course meal voucher.

Tina really did sign for the Italian Serie A club, pictured here with her first goal for the team!

Yeaahhhhh! Quiz night returns next Thursday!

Until next time Stratford, drink while you think...

Thursday 29th January 2015 scores:
1. 45 Fiorentina Turner
2. 42 This time taking it seriously FC #lastweekswinners
3. 40 We came for football.
4. 35 All round good eggs
5. 31 Big knob Bob and Romain
6. 27 The High Waist Men
7. 26 No limit

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