Mrs & Mrs Quiz Fun

This is a great game for a celebrating couple, such as at wedding receptions and anniversaries, and even engagements.

Mr & Mrs started life as light hearted TV programme.  A quiz show where a husband and wife would take it in turns to each answer some practical or preferential questions about each other - with the spouse out of ear shot - and then challenge would be to have both selected the same answer.  So for example...."For breakfast, would your other half prefer (a) a full English breakfast (b) cereal or (c) toast".  That's also appeared back on TV in the last couple of years, and in a celebrity version.

This has evolved into an increasingly popular party game, and especially at wedding receptions and in the USA.  Increasingly Known as the Shoe Game it's a faster paced and simpler solution.

So ...two chairs are placed back to back in the centre of the room for all to see.  Sitting down, Mr and Mrs can't now see each other.  Then it's both shoes off, keeping one and giving the other to the partner.  So they are now each holding one of their own shoes and one of their partners.  So then the questions....Quick fire questions simply involve both choosing him or her in response to a question, and raising the appropriate shoe. So for example, a practice question might be "Which of you drives fastest?".  They both raise a show at the same time, and the fun is all about in the seeing how much they agree with each other.

Here's ten tasters of those questions...

• When you were dating, who made the first move?

• Who's the better cook?

• Who said I love your first?

• Who has the strangest family?

• Who's the better driver?

• Who's in control of the TV remote?

• Who spends the longest in front of the mirror?

• Who is the better kisser?

• Who makes the first drink of the day?

• Who will be the first to fall asleep tonight?

A great fun game, and can be quite revealing too.   There's lot's of good possible questions, and while they do need to be surprise questions, it's worth taking some care to choose the right ones to match the couple and the circumstances. 

Retro Laser Display

In October 2012, BBC4 TV broadcast a concert from 1978, featuring ELO, the Electric Light Orchestra.  It was introduced by Tony Curtis (a global film "celebrity") as the best rock band in the world at the time. It was the time of big hair, white suits and white cellos. Their  most familiar music can still be heard on the radio today including... Sweet Talking Woman, Mr Blue Sky.  It was billed as having a pioneering laser display...

It creates an interesting reflection on progress.  That was 34 years ago.

Sure enough there were big effects, and big for the time too.   Over the last 34 years, lasers have advanced to be more powerful and more compact too, and even as handheld laser pointers. Great laser displays are now common place on those popular performance TV shows on Saturday night.... Strictly Come Dancing (by laser light).  UK Legislation is still such that need to be controlled by an "operator", hence the disco/club lasers have a key for on/off.  Then of course there's the £2bn  ational Ignition Facility in California USA, where 192 laser beams have this year been fired at a 2mm target, producing 500,000,000,000,000 watts of power, 100 times more than any other laser has produced.  That's 34 years of progress.

In terms of progress, what's perhaps more fascinating, is that 34 years before that the country was at war in 1944.  From food rations and blitzed London with search lights, to those white suites and cellos with pioneering lasers, to billion dollar lasers of today.