Blog. Think you’re the brainiest hospitality business in the country? Prove it for HA!
February 28, 2018 | Author Mark Lewis
Author: Mark Lewis
HA’s hard-working fundraising team prides itself on its eclectic mix of events.
Through the course of 2018, Astrid, Giuliana and Maria will be laying on jogging, cycling and golfing opportunities galore for our sportier supporters. If you prefer to watch sport rather than participate, they’ve got you covered too, with polo days in the southwest and northwest. They’ve even got a Rugby Legends dinner in Devon, offering guests a chance to rub shoulders with such union giants as Jeremy Guscott and former England captain Phil Vickery.
Fan of costume drama will want to beat a path to our tour of Highclere Castle, preceded by a three-course lunch at the Vineyard Hotel, in April.
And then there’s our Big Fat Pub Quiz, which takes place at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge on 9 May.
You know the form: you pull together a crack team of super-brains, swots and Tefal heads; get them to learn as much of the Encyclopaedia Britannica off by heart as they can in the coming weeks; come up with a name – Trivia Newton John, Quizzy McQuizface, Les Quizerables, that sort of thing – and prepare for battle.
It’s a bit like University Challenge, only with more booze and fewer college scarves and teddy mascots …
As well as the simple pleasure of showing off your general knowledge prowess to colleagues, there’s also the small matter of bragging rights, if you triumph as the highest-placed hotel or foodservice business or supplier.
Here are a few questions from last year’s quiz. If you can answer all three, your intellect is somewhere north of Yoda’s and you’re likely to do well – so what are you waiting for?
Curacao liqueur is made from laraha, a Caribbean variety of which fruit: blueberry, banana or orange?
Which of these is not a form of dried red meat: jerky, biltong or bacalhau?
When and where would you eat hoppers: on your birthday on Belize, for breakfast in Sri Lanka or on Shrove Tuesday on Scotland?
(answers: orange, bacalhau, breakfast – but you already knew that, didn’t you?)