Games Afternoon

As an enjoyable interlude from racing events, this month we all met at the Brassey Hotel for an afternoon of fun and games.

It was good to see all the attendees getting into the spirit of the occasion sporting their madcap head-wear.

A lively series of games was held, with spirited competition between the various tables.  The games included quizzes on general knowledge, Canberra racing, and international racing; identifying spices, and Housie.  The only discord was the outrageous behaviour of the quiz master in refusing to accede to the indisputable superior knowledge of Table 5 who were clearly the intellectual superiors of the room.  Time after time their well thought-out corrections to the quiz master's misunderstanding of astronomy or other sciences were blatantly ignored.  It became clear that there was a conspiracy afoot.

Kudos go to Brenda Stuart for the best womens' hat, and to Bob Jones for the best mens' hat.

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A Postscript For the Quiz Master:
Excerpt from the International Astronomical Union 2006 General Assembly

"The IAU members gathered at the 2006 General Assembly agreed that a "planet" is defined as a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

This means that the Solar System consists of eight "planets" Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. "