RICS UAE Board Annual Magazine 2010-11
RICS UAE Board Annual Magazine 2010-11
RICS UAE Board Annual Magazine 2010-11
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<strong>RICS</strong> Quiz Night<br />
Over a 120 <strong>UAE</strong> based Chartered Surveyors and friends from the property industry braved the heat in June, to<br />
attend the first <strong>RICS</strong> matrics Middle East Quiz.<br />
Dubai based Cluttons beat thirteen other teams to win the quiz, held at Media One Hotel in Dubai Media<br />
City. After receiving the trophy from Jim Drysdale, <strong>RICS</strong> MENEA Director, Richard Paul, Associate at Cluttons<br />
attributed their success to their thunderous singing in the final round, crucial timing of playing their ‘Joker’ in an<br />
earlier round to strategically double their points, and all round great team, each of whom appeared to house an<br />
amazing amount of irrelevant trivia, that they never knew how they knew and will probably never use again –<br />
until next years Quiz!<br />
The Quiz Master Richard Vaughan, Managing Director at VSH International, read out the questions for the<br />
evening with the enthusiasm of Forsyth and the wit of Wogan, he never tired and was always ready for a heckler,<br />
never failing to win the banter due to an iron grip on his microphone!<br />
At the beginning of the evening, none of the teams knew what to expect but once they were comfortably<br />
enjoying dinner, Sam Morris, Chairman of <strong>RICS</strong> matrics <strong>UAE</strong>, talked them through the night and the teams<br />
quickly settled in and got down to business enthusiastically appointing team captains, runners, and every round<br />
as it came.<br />
A diverse range of Sponsors raffle prizes and gifts awarded throughout the evening kept the teams on the ball<br />
and two delightful assistants ensured the teams bought plenty of raffle tickets to support the chosen charities –<br />
LionHeart and Al Noor Centre for Children with Special Needs. The event wouldn’t have been the success it was<br />
without the great efforts of the chief organisers Richard Angel and Richard Scarth of Asteco LLC international<br />
associates of Savills, assisted by Joe Morris and Jenny Hopkins, <strong>RICS</strong> <strong>UAE</strong> Comms Officer.<br />
Cluttons enthusiasm carried on long after the evening closed and celebrations carried on into the early hours of<br />
Thursday morning. The trophy is now on display in the Cluttons office for all of the other teams to see with envy<br />
for the next twelve months!<br />
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<strong>RICS</strong> <strong>UAE</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> 2009
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