A tense sudden-death tie-break question settled the top spot at south Kent’s KM Big Charity Quiz on Friday.

Both Stargating across the Quizziverse and Supernova scored 58 points at the end of six rounds, prompting the tie-break which was won by Simon Rowden’s Stargating team.

The event proved a double success with a record 40 teams of eight taking part, making it south Kent’s biggest charity wine and wisdom evening in 2016. And with £7k raised for local good causes including children’s literacy scheme Buster’s Book Club, road safety initiatives and Kent Express charity of the year Fairshare, event question master Simon Dolby was delighted with the result.

Two of the major supporters on the night including Shepherd Neame who donated all the beverages for the Spitfire Charity Bar, and staff from Barclays who manned the bar and helped with a variety of jobs on the night – and then matched the amount raised up to £3k.

Also helping were Hallett and Co, Specsavers, Office Angels, McDonalds, Independent Music Productions, Stour Centre, Hornby and Kentish Oils.

Simon Dolby said: “The teams attending were great fun and so the atmosphere was great in the hall. The event team were so pleased at the success of the night.”

The top four teams from the night will be invited to take on top quiz teams from the Canterbury, Medway and Maidstone heats of the Big Quiz staged earlier this year. The county final will be staged in January.

The Ashford event will move to June in 2017 and be staged at the Ashford International Hotel. To be notified when tickets go on sale and to receive a discount code, sign up to the monthly KM Charity Link e-newsletter at www.kmbigquiz.co.uk

Results

1 Stargating across the Quizziverse, Supernova 58; 3Moomins 57; 4 Spoilsports 53; 5 Nuts and Bolts 47; 6 PB Eggheads, Griffin, Kingsfords, Quiztopher Walken 44; 10 Let’s get Quizzical, Quizlings, Unintelligent Life, Team Chartway 43, 14 Netiv Consulting 42, 15 The Powers, Quizzly Bears 41, 17 East Kent Sands 40, The Board 40, 19 Thinking Aloud, Sylvie’s Slaves 39, 21 Spitfire 38, 22 PB Aces, Toke 37, 24 Specsavers, Croppers, Braebourne Babes 34, 27 Court Short, Slimming World Wonders 33, 29 No Win, No Fee, Warners Wanderers 32, 31 Ken Dodd’s Dad’s Dog’s Dead 31, 32 Atticus Finch 30, Three Rs 30, Wednesday Walkers 30, 35 Who Put the Sjells in the Sea, Wacky Walkers, Trigger and the Daves 29, 38 Legally Blonde 28, 39 Quizzie Rascals 22, 40 Square Bears 20.

• Click here to view event score table.