On a turbulent Tuesday night, the PA department made their way to the Star of Bethnal Green to embark on a terrifying evening of interrogation: the pub quiz.Embarrassment was likely. Nerves were fraught.The Holy Grail was in sight: £50 prize money was up for grabs with immeasurable pride at stake.

Inspired by a ‘money runs through my fingers’ attitude, the team name was agreed upon: Insufficient Funds. There were ten other competing teams, many regulars of the pub quiz scene. Questions were varied and challenging, everything from film sound bites and Shakespearean sonnets to labeling pulmonary veins on a diagram of the human heart. Each team member added their valuable area of expertise and just to show how seriously and dedicated we were to the cause, we even managed to rat out a few cheats. Mobile phones were banished from the table or else they would be chucked in the urinal. There was a bonus round thrown in where Lara was quickly pushed into the ring to regale her most awful first date tale to the entire pub. With this, and our generally loud volume, the other teams didn’t see us as a threat.

As the quizmaster began to reveal the results, we tensely awaited our disappointment; a walk of shame home was surely imminent?! 5^th place…4^th place… still nothing,, 3^rd place…. Nothing…biting our nails anxiously…2^nd place…we’d done it! 1^st place to INSUFFICENT FUNDS. We had won, in the face of adversity and beaten 7 time winners  Bojangles. In our glory and winning excitement we even managed to break the table as the quizmaster reflected, ‘You guys are so fun, I didn’t think there was any way you were going to win.’ And so it seems, sometimes you really can have your cake and eat it. 

Our team winning picture right after we broke the table: