{"id":325,"date":"2015-03-13T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-03-13T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:17:55","slug":"joan-was-quizzical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/2015\/03\/13\/joan-was-quizzical\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Joan was Quizzical&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first charity fundraising event was a success!\u00a0 On Wednesday (11<sup>th<\/sup> March) we held a Pub Quiz in aid of Comic Relief at the Hancock Pub near campus.\u00a0 There were raffle prizes up for grabs including chocolates, cinema tickets and a night \u2018at the dogs\u2019, which was donated to the cause and for which we are exceptionally grateful!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-327\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2015\/03\/PGF-Comic-Quiz-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-327 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2015\/03\/PGF-Comic-Quiz-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"PGF Comic Quiz 2\" width=\"364\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2015\/03\/PGF-Comic-Quiz-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2015\/03\/PGF-Comic-Quiz-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the raffle prize winners! Photo Credits: Amy Shields &amp; Sam Petty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our own Chris Mowat took off his Seminar Co-ordinator hat and become Quizmaster for the night \u2013 we should have picked someone who would have created an easier quiz!\u00a0 Chris came up with a spectacular five rounds with a variety of great questions (including The Beatles song our title came from!) and everyone had great\u00a0fun.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>We h<\/strong><strong>ad a fantastic turnout and everyone had a great night.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Our sincere thanks t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2015\/03\/PGF-Comic-Quiz-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"PGF Comic Quiz 1\" width=\"337\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2015\/03\/PGF-Comic-Quiz-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2015\/03\/PGF-Comic-Quiz-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/>o<br \/>\neveryone who come along and joined in \u2013 we raised \u00a3111.50 altogether, which was beyond our expectations.\u00a0 Thank you!\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A big shout out to our Losing Team, &#8216;Table 19&#8217;, who won the (literal) wooden spoon prize.<\/p>\n<p>And Well Done to our Winners, the &#8216;The Quiz-tine Chapel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Jack &amp; Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first charity fundraising event was a success!\u00a0 On Wednesday (11th March) we held a Pub Quiz in aid of Comic Relief at the Hancock Pub near campus.\u00a0 There were raffle prizes up for grabs including chocolates, cinema tickets and a night \u2018at the dogs\u2019, which was donated to the cause and for which we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/2015\/03\/13\/joan-was-quizzical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Joan was Quizzical&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21,8,103,22,23],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-charity","tag-community","tag-events","tag-fundraising","tag-postgraduate-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}