Battle of the Sexes - who wins?

In the early days of moving to Terreros, we were sat in one of the local bars when we met a couple who had lived here for a couple of years. Ann had started a slimming group up that weren't very successful at slimming but did enjoy the weekly meeting, coffee and a chat and from that grew the Terreros Ladies Group. This is a group of ladies, predominantly from the UK, but there are also Belgian and Spanish members, that meet every week and help each other with issues, information and at this time of year arranging christmas gatherings, carols etc.

One of the ladies from the group works very hard at organising events and Sandra, who organised the recent Treasure Hunt, had sorted a quiz with a difference - a Battle of the Sexes.

Basically, when we arrived all the men were sent to one side of the bar and all the ladies on the other and we would play the first round in 2 teams, ladies v men.

The questions were in a number of categories and there were individual rounds where an elected person could choose a category to earn extra points for the team.

Now, why it would surprise is that the men would cheat is anyone's guess - but they did! There was so much conferring on the individual questions it was unbelievable.

So, it was disapponting but not unexpected that the men were slightly ahead at the halfway point.

So, after a chance to replenish our glasses (no, I know you don't believe we only had one drink through the whole of the first half!) we started on the Mr & Mrs section. In this, couples were drawn at random to play the Mr & Mrs game of holding paddles up to show in the couple, who was most likely to................... for example..........make the tea in the morning. If they both agreed they won a point for them as a couple, BUT.....they would also add a point to which ever team the couple agreed on. So, if they both agreed the man would be most likely to make the tea, the men would get a point.

So, this is where more cheating, sorry, tactics came in. The men decided to forfeit the points for the couples in order to stop the ladies winning any points by always saying the men were the most likely to ........well, everthing. That way if their partner disagreed - no points won, if their partner agreed the point was won for the men, but the women could not add to their total points score.

So, there were no surprises at the final score!

Still, no doubt there will be a re-match soon!