Beauty and the bee: It's pub-quiz time

the eighth annual NZ Pub Quiz held at the Horse in Trap in Auckland. Photo / Richard Robinson

They're one of the country's brainiest pub quiz teams - a group of Wellington friends who can tackle the toughest questions, such as "I am holding a bee in my hand. What is in my eye?"

The answer: beauty, a play on words with the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the bee holder".

The team, known as Eddie M. Bubu, are made up of three managers, a researcher and two policy analysts.

They have met every Tuesday night for the past seven years at pubs throughout the capital to pit their general knowledge skills against the best there, and regularly come out on top.

"Wellington's got a really competitive pub-quiz scene. Well, I heard it was anyway," said 31-year-old Angela Gore. "That doesn't mean to say Aucklanders aren't that competitive. I'm sure they are," she said. Yesterday, the team paid their own way to Auckland to defend their title as the country's best pub-quiz team against 30 other teams in The Champions Quiz.

The teams of six were given a variety of question categories which included sport, music, geography, old stuff, TV themes, television and cinema while competing for $5000 worth of prizes.

Ms Gore said a good pub-quiz team needed diversity.

Each of its members specialised in different subjects. Her expertise was trash magazines.

"Sometimes we might do a bit of study beforehand" said Rebecca Matthews, another team member.

Her specialties are music and television.

But despite winning the title for the past two years, Eddie M. Bubu's grip on the trophy was looking tenuous as they encountered a horror TV-themes round where teams had to correctly match advertising slogans with their respective companies.

"We're pretty nervous and not too sure this time around," said a grim-looking Ms Matthews.

"But this has become a tradition for us and we'll come back next year if we don't make it."

Indeed, the title went to Aucklanders The Men Who Would be Kings, from Kingsland, who pipped Eddie M. Bubu by one point with 76 correct answers out of 100 questions.

QUESTIONS

* Where is the bulk of the world's ice wine made?

* What is the name of a pastry made of layers of filo dough filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios and sweetened with syrup or honey?

* Which three animals were mentioned in the Dr Seuss book

Green Eggs and Ham

?

* Who wrote the song

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

which was a big hit for Joe Cocker?

* What is both a region of South Africa, a town in Sumatra and a city in Brazil?

ANSWERS

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