03/05/11….Thame quizzers as you’ve never seen them before!

ANYONE walking into Thame town hall on Saturday night expecting to find a typical Thame quiz night, might very well had gazed around and wondered if they had come to the right place!

Thame Twinning Association’s Royal Wedding Quiz was indeed, as our American friends might say, ‘something else.’

The offer of prizes for the best dressed table as well as for the most points scored in the quiz, certainly inspired several teams to get into the wedding spirit and search out bridal veils and some gorgeous hats, and in at least one team’s case, to raid the dressing up box!

The winning team, whose name is unrepeatable on a family website, was a regular team from the Cross Keys pub in Thame, consisting of four men dressed as women, two of them as brides, the other two as possibly mother of the bride, and their female partners as grooms; all looking rather dapper in dark suits, bow ties, and in one case, a top hat. These bastions of the community, including your editor, a local florist, a chairmaker, the local farrier, two local writers of romantic fiction, a security advisor to the Metropolitan police and and ex headmaster, swept the board by winning both prizes.

Quizmaster for the evening was Jeannette Matelot Green, Chair of Thame Twinning, whose questions on literature, music, the Royals, food and drink and France, were varied enough to give everyone the opportunity to contribute, rounding off with a picture round of other famous Williams and Kates.

At the end of an epic evening’s entertainment, Jeannette and her committee of helpers were thanked for all their hard work and a bouquet of flowers presented to Jeannette.

In total the evening raised over