I am so, so sorry I have not updated for weeks! Exams literally took over my life! Anyway, I had my last one yesterday so now I have loads of time to write more! Thank you once again to all my reviewers, it really means a lot. I have also started a new Casualty /Holby crossover called 'In at the Deep End' if you would like to take a look at that. Basically it is where Zosia and Chantelle do a rotation in the ED and there's a new paramedic. This chapter is going to be quite light-hearted in contrast with the others so enjoy! :)
"European capitals you have to be kidding!" Guy exclaimed as the category was announced on the television.
"You go to conferences around Europe you should know some." Colette told him with an amused grin.
"Usually they're not in the capital cities."
"Paris, Moscow, Rome, Madrid, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Sarajevo…" Colette reeled off.
"Did you just make that one up?" Guy questioned in surprise.
"No she didn't it's the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina." Zosia pointed out. "Anyway, most of those answers will be very high-scoring, they need to be obscure."
"I didn't actually know that, I'd just heard the name." Colette said in response to Zosia's first comment.
"I bet you don't have any better ideas?" He challenged.
"Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein, Chisinau is the capital of Moldova and Tallinn is the capital of Estonia. There." Zosia told them with a satisfied smile. Guy sighed. So far on the show, nobody had got a pointless answer.
"You've shown him up there Zosh, nice one!" Colette laughed. The highest scoring pair had got a hundred points and the lowest scoring had twelve points. Guy was dismayed to see that all three of his daughter's answers were pointless, much to Colette and Zosia's amusement. "Well done." Colette said to Zosia in satisfaction. The second category was Victorian literature.
"This really is not going in my favour today." Guy commented.
"Oh good! Books!" Colette said, her eyes gleaming. "Victorian literature is good."
"You mean to say you read Jane Austen?" He asked.
"Yes. But Austen isn't Victorian. She's eighteenth century."
"You can do this category then. We don't read." He spoke for himself and Zosia. The list came up and Colette started with the answers.
"Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray, Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte, Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde, Frankenstein is Mary Shelley and Little Women is Louisa May Alcott." She read out.
"The only ones I have heard of are Oliver Twist and Frankenstein."
"I've heard of Wuthering Heights. I think I've read it. When I was fourteen, maybe fifteen." Zosia said.
"It's good isn't it?" Colette asked, glad that finally somebody knew what she was talking about.
"It is actually."
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the best Victorian book though." Colette said, stopping abruptly and looking at Zosia. She relaxed when she realised that Zosia had no recollection of the story. "Anyway…" She continued quickly, as the next board was revealed. "Dracula is Bram Stoker, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell, The Thirty-Nine Steps is John Buchan, Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley and The Portrait of a Lady was Henry James. Did it again!" She said in glory.
"The pair of you are show-offs." Guy said bluntly.
"Can't you take it dad?" Zosia smiled.
"Clearly not." Colette answered. The next category was on photos of famous rugby players which none of them could get, much to Guy's pleasure. However, the fourth round was a different story. Musicals, the round with alternate letters missing from titles of their songs. Anya and Colette had often taken Zosia down to the West End and they had seen a lot of shows so knew them well. Guy had not gone with them, he had never liked musicals.
"The first one is One Day More from Les Mis." Colette and Zosia said in unison.
"I don't think I know the second." Colette admitted.
"It's Defying Gravity! From WICKED!" Zosia exclaimed.
"Ah of course!" Colette said in realisation. "The third is…"
"Summer Nights from Grease." They both said.
"Then there's All I Ask of You from Phantom." Colette observed, Zosia nodded in agreement.
"Super Trouper from Mamma Mia is next isn't it?" Zosia asked.
"Yes." Colette confirmed. "So Much Better…"
"…from Legally Blonde and then Here Right Now from Ghost." Zosia finished. "We've seen all of those." Needless to say, they were both right with every single one. They both collapsed into fits of laughter at Guy's defeated reaction and frustration at them knowing so much. The last two answers scored one point and no points respectively. In the final round, the contestants chose British sitcoms as their category.
"Things are looking up! Guy said hopefully. The question was to name recurring actors from Gavin and Stacy, Last of the Summer Wine and Goodnight Sweetheart. "David Ryall and Eve Bland for Goodnight Sweetheart, Danny O'Dea and Jean Alexander for Last of the Summer Wine and I can only name the main actors for Gavin and Stacy."
"Sheridan Smith." Zosia said.
"She was in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps."
"And Gavin and Stacy."
"No she wasn't."
"I think she was Guy." Colette chipped in. Guy still continued to argue. Two of his answers reached one point and with her answer, Zosia scored no points.
"I told you so." She grinned at him triumphantly.
This was a bit mad but a bit of fun! I wanted to have Zosia smiling a bit more to show that she is slowly getting there. Just to clarify, I did not have to any research for the musical round. I just have to point that out. xD