Thunderbolts Take on the CAMRA Quiz!

Hi readers, it’s Emily and Kerry here, as usual but this week we have a special guest writer. We’re handing over to Diane, who's tell you all about our recent quiz night and a special donation to People First Dorset (PFD). Over to Diane!

Hi everyone, it’s Diane here. So, last Friday, me and Kerry went to the Pavillion Ocean Room in Weymouth for the Dorchester Beerex Oktoberfest Quiz Night. It was organised by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale), and they’d kindly chosen PFD to raise funds for.

It was busy with lots of CAMRA members there, and we joined the fun along with Kerry’s partner Steve, and Emily from PFD.

We got given some tokens to try the beer, and there were a lot! Some beers had very strange names, like Yellow Hammer, Dog and Atlantic. Emily decided to stick with Appletiser!

Soon came the quiz. We were sitting on a table with Jason, Jared and Mark, who were lovely, and we became a team. We called ourselves the Thunderbolts, which sounded like a winning name to me. However the questions were aimed at cleverer people than me, and I was rather useless! But, I was very happy to be there as it was fun, and while we only scored 36/100, we had a good laugh, and got a good group photo!

I went back on Saturday evening, again with Kerry and Steve. This time Andrew, Chair of PFD Trustees and Laura joined us all. Best of all, the CAMRA team presented with a fantastic cheque for £300.

A huge thank you to Bruce, Rich and all the team at CAMRA, for raising this money for People First Dorset. We might not be quiz champions, but we had a brilliant time!

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