As anyone who reads this blog will probably know, my participation in the Lancaster City Quiz League has led me to realise my relative strengths and weaknesses. The subjects I think I'm OK at are geography, literature, entertainment, but again it all depends on whether you know what's being asked. I liked the description Olav Bjortomt gave to quiz on his blog as being like a general knowledge lottery, and that's essentially what it is - the more you know (the more tickets, or facts, you acquire), the more - presumably - you'll get right, and the better the chance of you doing well. But, of course, it's not always as simple as that.
My aim for the GPs is for continual improvement at each one I attend. This may not always work out, as difficulty and suitability of questions for me will change from one to another, but I reckon I should see some noticeable improvement if I put the work in on improving. At the Stafford GP (my first ever one) I attended on 3rd May, for example, my score was fairly poor, but I was pleased that I didn't really disgrace myself - in my opinion, anyway - and that my scores were fairly even across the board, apart from in Sport & Leisure which was a couple of marks lower than my average across the other categories.
As a more numerical, measurable ambition, I'd like to break into the UK top 50 or so in the not-too-distant future, but it's probably a big ask at the moment considering I only started becoming properly interested in quizzing in all its guises in the last year or so.
Does anyone else have specific ambitions in quizzing? Or is it just the taking part that you're bothered about - which is absolutely fair enough, I suppose, as long as you're happy with it?
