It was a colleague's birthday yesterday, and we all went on a pub crawl around some of London's historic pubs.
I had been tasked with devising an activity or game to make the night go with a bang. I thought up a True or False quiz, based on an idea by several bees.
Along the route at each pub, we stopped and heard two stories. I enlisted a helper to tell one story, and I told the other. One of us was telling the trute, and the other making it up.
The game was to guess which was which. If answered correctly, you got a prize.
Our route took us from legal Holborn through carvernous bars to religious Blackfriars:
Along the way we heard stories about telescopes, parrots, queens, bishops, mayors, egg-breaking and lots more interesting things. Some true, some false.
Happily, the audience was divided on every occasion as to what was true and what was false, leading to much spirited debate and laughter.
I thoroughly enjoyed devising this and learning more about history and trivia, and happily my colleague did too, sending me this message at the end of the evening: "Thanks so much for being such winning hosts! It was a great evening, beautifully orchestrated."
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