The answer is £406.30

The question - how much did quiz night raise? What a result.

It was a lovely night. Ashendon Village Hall provided the perfect venue for a warm and friendly atmosphere. The aroma of jacket potatoes flooded the room. Keen (and often) forgiving competitors and a brilliant 'event' team all helped us to raise well beyond our expectations.

Questions were Pollicott Belles themed with Britain Outdoors, Cycling, Food, Bernwode, Nature and Music rounds. Who would have thought there were so many bike related songs? Google 'cycling' or 'bike' songs to see for yourself.

The results were outstanding - final scores ranged from 21 to 56.

Les Froggletts won the wooden spoon - their excuse? They had hot footed it from Stansted as one member of their team had just flown in from Poitiers, France to join the quiz. Already one round down they struggled to catch up (did they take the Tour de France questions seriously enough we wonder?). Team Awesome put up a similarly cosmopolitan team with 2 members representing Bulgaria, and bringing with them their amazing cheese pastry knowledge to clinch 6th place.

As well as Ashendon folk, Kent, Oxfordshire, Wheatley and Brill were all represented. So the Pollicott Belles reputation is spreading far and wide.

The winners were our very own Ashendon Four Plus One (Team Leader - John Curtis) who pipped The Big Mac's (featuring our local Macmillan fundraising manager Julian Knowles) at the very last post. Sorry Big Mac's they just had the edge with local knowledge.

Team Wooden Spoon failed to achieve their anticipated award - coming in with an impressive 3rd. The Five Graces (our lovely Ashendon gals) took 4th place, just beating the fabulous Ashendon boys (Silence) who followed in 5th.

Behind the scenes Gill Walker, Vicky, Alex and Annalise Reeves worked tirelessly to serve a more than excellent hot supper. Compliments to the chefs came in abundance and they were well deserved.

For those who came and are still wondering what was going on back there? apparently plastic spatulas don't stay rigid when washed in very hot water and Vicky just couldn't contain herself - hence the raucous laughter!

The front of house question team kept proceedings on track (almost!) with Steve Reeves putting up an almost Paxmanlike performance as question master; whilst I coaxed answer sheets from teams and passed them to John Walker to process them through his highly efficient scoring system. John, how do you do that all in your head?

Of course without the teams it would have all come to nought so, to the 30 competitors, thank you for your humour, support and money! We hope you enjoyed the evening.

And finally to Annalise, congratulation on your exceptional sales performance - raising over £100 selling raffle tickets is truly impressive - thank you and well done.