Rtn Philip Smith: African nations
Thu, Mar 12th 2020 at 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Philip gave us a quiz at very short notice.
Today’s scheduled speakers dropped out yesterday because of sore throats. David Axon, our Programme Officer, phoned Philip Smith, our Bulletin Editor, late last night to see whether he could step into the breach. He usually has a vast fund of jokes he can tell at short notice.
On this occasion he reckoned he had already told us all the jokes he had, so he decided to give us a quiz instead. Each of our three tables worked as a team and there was just one question: “According to the UN, there are 54 countries in Africa. Name them.”
Our three teams all did quite well. The winners got 51 of the 54, largely thanks to Keith Dabb’s extensive travels in the area. We all managed to remember Burkina Faso. None of us remembered Benin.
