For the second year running the team of Paul Davison (Washington CC), Dave Guttridge (The Bene), Dave Lowther (Byker PTE) and Eddie Burns (former league player), have won the HASSRA National Sports Quiz.

 After winning in Bristol in 2005, representing HASSRA Newcastle, there had been a re-jig of the National boundaries, meaning that in 2006 the team was representing the North East region which covers from Berwick in the North to Teeside in the South.

 After winning a regional qualifier at the Angel Inn in Gateshead, the team went to Darlington to do battle with teams representing another 11 other regions of the country, at the quiz held at the Blackwell Grange Hotel. The quiz was set by another League stalwart, Steve Westerby.

 The team got a spectacular start, scoring 24 out of 32 points to lead by 6 points at the end of Round 1. That lead had stretched to 25 points by the lunch break, a lead never likely to be clawed back 

 When time was called after 12 rounds of questions, The North East team had scored a total of 202 points out of a possible 250, leaving them victors by 49 points from their friends and rivals from Burnley, who represented the North West region.

The team with their trophy - from left to right: Eddie Burns, Dave Lowther, Dave Guttridge, Paul Davison

The organisers then made the team wear these tops in hope of putting them off entering next year