This year's Association of Catering Excellence pub quiz held at Imperial College in London's South Kensington earlier this week was a great success with 32 teams competing. Unfazed by the bookies' predictions, last year's winners Bartlett Mitchell rose to the task before them and monstered the opposition to win again. Coffee supplier Peros came second and the Stern Consultancy snuck in for third. Good game, good game!
What is Bartlett Mitchell's secret to their quiz success? Well Ian Mitchell, co-founder and director at the caterer, proffered the straightforward answer that it's simply a good mix of wise old heads with strength and depth across the varied quiz categories.
But all may not be what it seems. While Bartlett Mitchell claimed not to have carried out any training, we hear different. The company apparently has a secret Spanish base and when the team were there last, they just happened to end up in a local pub quiz where they just happened to win.
And what of the company's mysterious accountant, who apparently is only allowed out of Bartlett Mitchell's HQ in Egham, Surrey, and away from the books for pub quizzes?
Relaxed and informal eh?