Trivia Night at The Doncaster

Just around the corner from our place is The Doncaster Hotel. As I mentioned in a previous post, in a lot of cases the label Hotel often has nothing to do with the existence of rooms, and I don't think are any to be found here; however, there are a few bars, a small casino, pool tables, and a restaurant.

The restaurant has an amazing dinner deal Sunday through Thursday nights. They offer an $11 cook-your-own steak dinner with salad bar You choose from a very decent selection steaks or chicken, that you grill up on a BBQ. The potato wedges with sweet chilli and sour cream are also fantastic. I'm really not sure why we haven't been eating here once a week.

This past Tuesday night, after Kate and G and I had a delicious steak dinner, Kate and I decided to stay for their weekly trivia night. Playing trivia in a foreign country is definitely interesting. Really, there's nothing like it to make you feel your own ignorance. Let's face it, Americans in particular are pretty oblivious to the goings-on of the rest of the world. I thought I was doing well because I'd learned the current and previous Prime Ministers (Kevin Rudd, preceded by John Howard) and I was starting to get a good amount of the early history down too. But the current leader of the green party??? Sorry, too soon. (But the answer is Bob Brown . . . I know you were dying to know.) And the sports questions . . . I mean, I don't think I'll ever understand cricket.

Kate and I had a great time laughing at ourselves, though. Considering that there were just two of us, and most teams had four or more players, and given our light disadvantage, I think we did pretty well. We didn't come in last! Yay!!! We may have had a little help from Andrew, the very personable MC. I think he was kind of amused by us, although also a little confused as to why a couple of American chicks would show up to trivia at local bar. He may have thrown a few pity points our way. Something tells me that when you go on Sydney's 7 Bridges Walk, you don't actually pass Beau, Jeff, and Nash. (For the record, the correct answers would be: the Sydney Harbour, Pyrmont, Anzac, Iron Cove, Gladsville, Taraban Creek, and the Fig Tree Bridges. ) But hey, I'll take the points for “creativity.”

Thanks for the help Andrew!

And I repeat – We did not come in last! Actually, not even second to last. I think that's reason enough to celebrate!

These random little guys were on a wall. I just thought they were funny.