Saturday, April 01, 2006

Jane Austen's lesser-known seventh novel

We went to the physics department trivia night last night and our team came third. I've never won anything at these things before.

This time I think it was mostly because of the extra bonus points we got in round three.

One of the questions in round three was to name all six of Jane Austen's novels. We had all of them except Mansfield Park, and we just couldn't call that one to mind, although we knew it started with M.

So we put down Mass and Masturbation instead, which after all has most of the elements of a Jane Austen novel: sex, religion, alliteration...

The extra points we got for that put us firmly into the lead. (For a while.)