Retail Property Quiz by Jodie Evans and Baz Nahar

On 29th April 10 teams representing organisations such as Arcadia, Monsoon, East, EAT, Caffe Nero, Scribbler and Pardoe & Wood met at Davy's Wine Bar in Creed Lane, just around the corner from Royds' offices, for the second Annual Retail Property Quiz.

Entry fees and raffle tickets (where the prizes included Eurostar tickets and vouchers for Gordon Ramsey's restaurant and The Sanctuary) were used to raise money for the Retail Trust charity.

There were various rounds of questions, posed expertly by Mark the manager of Davy's, on subjects as diverse as general knowledge, sport, geography and gameshow catch phrases and inbetween everyone sustained themselves with tapas brainfood and the odd alcoholic beverage.

The Royds team was out in force - head of property Robert LLoyd-Davies and property partner Gareth Williams led the rest of the commercial property team including Baz Nahar, Mark Newbold and Jodie Evans.

There was also a team of other Royds folk with Lucy Tangen, David Bowman and Mike Smith from litigation supported by Stewart Wilkinson who is head of commercial litigation and also managing partner.

Meanwhile, Adam Maberly from residential property, employment partner Gemma Webb and corporate partner Duncan Holden joined a team comprising people from Arcadia and East.

But demonstrating that keeping alert with the aid of caffeine is a winning formula, the trophy this year was won by the team from Caffe Nero. We are already looking forward to next year.