Quiz Night! - Music Teasers in Kent

QUIZ NIGHT- SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW MUSIC???
My wife Karren and I sponsored a Quiz Night last month as a fundraiser for the Kent Community Fund.

The premise is a well researched assortment of crazy questions to be answered by a team of four to see who is the best and the brightest.

The theme this time was Music. Easy you say until you are trying to recall whether Sanford and Sons or Barney Miller TV theme song is playing.

Once again the talents of the Diane and Clive Lodge came to challenge over 20 teams to a litany of wild questions that involved listening to riffs from a live guitarist ( great job Chris Lynch) to watching 40 year old video clips of the bands from the 60's (Pre- MTV), to unscrambling anagrams ( see below and try your luck).....

The questions and format take 6 months to compile and the pace is fast with a well trained crew keeping the raucousness in the Kent Community House in check. Not easy when dinner and libations is BYODB.

The highlight was a video montage tribute from Clive to his wife Diane on her 50th Birthday with clips from friends and family in England and all over the world. Diane's tears of joy as her fifty years of memories flashed across the huge screen to cheers and hoots from the crowd were touching. It was a lovely tribute. And every guy in the place hated Clive for his romantic and creative surprise. As they say in England...Good show ole boy!

So here are a sample of ideas for you to see if you should try Quiz Night next time around! Good luck and if you want the answers, let me know....

Smelliest Poop Tent

This was how we began the night.....Quiz Night continued into the late evening with roaring laughter and the usual shenanigans.

Other anagrams for well known singers included :


Wierd Rude Racoon
Alienate Frogs
Anal Toe Lice
Soaks Urinals and.....
Sweaty Hair Odor

Can you guess any of the above? (email me your answers ).


Captain Clive- Grand Master of Ceremony!

Back Country Outfitters' Anne McAndrew, Dave Fairity with teammates Frank and Patrice Galterio and

Lauren Alley.

Jeff Galusha celebrates with his wife Kendra while Steve Penner wonders how he knew the answer. Teammates Steve and Kathleen Robey cheer his brilliance.

Diane shows off the Booby Prize- Note my team did even not place. It was a poor showing.

Chris Lynch ripping out snippets of songs where you need to guess the artist and song.

Kent Political Hotbed!?

Last Friday Kent was a hotspot for political activity. Downtown was abuzz waiting for President Bush to arrive at the Kissenger residence for a fundraising event. $10K got you a picture which would help raise funds for some guy who'll be running for our Congressional seat. So with this visit ofcourse came the media, protestors and onlookers.

I happened to be only a few properties away from the Kissenger estate during the lunch hours. What amazed me was all the hardware that was needed just for this event. There were "no parking" signs stapled to a tree every twenty feet for at least a mile. All the culverts near the road to the Kissenger property had been cleaned days before. The Wednesday before this Friday luncheon Kent was buzzed by two large copters that looked like the president's. I was told there were snipers in the woods around the property who had taken up post. While outside taking photos of a house the sounds of helicopters was everywhere. I saw two large gunships fly over three times each loaded with what appeared to be missles.

It was the first time I had seen so many State Troopers in Kent at one time. And boy were they busy runnig about here and there. I am now satisfied that we have budgeted enough money on out Trooper line in the Town Budget.

Speaking of budget it seems ludicrous to me that all this financial effort went into one meal. I know that the President was scheduled to speak a group in Hartford and that from Hartford to Kent is a short distance and that the guy who'll be running had to pay for the President's ride from Hartford to Kent. But come on there must have been at least a million dollars spent on this visit with all the cops, secret service, helicopters and fuel.

All this for a lunch.

At the same time down in the village of Kent apparently about a 150 protestors marched in protest against President Bush and his policies towards the war in Iraq specifically. I got this photo later in the day. I came to understand that the marchers had no permit for the float and there for left it at the side of the road as a billboard.

On a personal note my wife Karren and our daughter Hazel were in town to watch when Hazel asked Karren why and what were the protestors marching against. After being told Hazel noted that she was against war. So they jumped in with the marchers. Like I said Kent is a politcal hotbed.