Please note for next week:

• Albert are setting (and thus get a bye into Plate Round 2)

• X-Pats can't raise a team and so have had to concede their first round plate match to the Opsimaths - who automatically become the Lowest Scoring Winners of Plate Round 1 games 9/10 thereby meeting the Albert in Plate Round 2 at the Albert Club on April 26th

Val Draper Cup - Round 1 - The Results

Mad Dogs, down to a couple of mutts with no sign of a cherry, had no problem in putting Albert to the sword.

Opsimaths struggled at home to the Electric Pigs and finally succumbed by 2 points.

X-Pats lost by a way to the (almost) all-conquering FCEK.

Snoopy's Friends were well beaten by a "WWTBAM-enhanced" Albert Park

History Men cantered home against St Caths

The Paper

This week the paper came from Ethel Rodin.  Not altogether universal praise.  Boos for being asked to guess the ages of Henry V and Richard III at the time of their death with no leeway, but praise for the "So Long, Farewell, John Tolan" round ("very well thought out" to quote but one correspondent).  Disputes about the site of the sinking of the Mary Rose, and thumbs down for the Berlioz wife question - but compliments for the kingly herb question.  All in all, however, pretty low scoring.

Question of the Week

This week the vote goes to the 'John Tolan dedicated' Round 8 Q8:

What is the title of the fourth book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams?

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