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This week the paper was
set by the
Albert.
The general feeling from around the grounds is that Albert
provided the perfect antidote to a cold, wet, depressing
early January evening.
At the Albert Club it was
thumbs up from both teams to a challenging but highly
enjoyable paper. Jitka had been struck down by a virus
so the QM role went to Colin. He managed pretty well
until Round 6 Question 2. He read out the question
("Of which Hollywood actress did Dorothy Parker write 'She
ran the gamut of emotions from A to B?'"). When
Snoopy's Kate asked for clarification "Was that Dorothy
Parker?" he said "Yes, well done, 2 points." It took a
few minutes to get him to acknowledge that there may
have been a little more required than simply repetition
of part of the question.
There was, however, one
trouble spot in the paper. Round 8 Question 2 asked
for the name of the war concluded by the Treaty of the
Pyrenees. The answer given (The Thirty Years War) was
hotly disputed by both sides. Tony was adamant that it
was The Peace of Westphalia that rounded off The Thirty
Years War. In the end we decided against a spare but
it was a close run thing.
From deepest Ladybarn
Kieran writes in:
"Cracking as ever
when playing Gerry and friends. Never more than a
few points in it and the result in doubt up to the last
pair. A return to enjoyable Wednesday evenings after
a few poor weeks. We came away very relieved to have
the points and we're looking forward to the second half of
the season. Pretty good effort from the Albert - a
few bum moments but overall plenty to make you think and
at least give you a chance of getting something close to
the correct answer. Bravo!!"
....whilst from the
same match Damian comments:
"We thought the
Albert's questions were a curious mixture of the
interesting, the quirky and the obscure with paired
questions that varied from being well-thought out to
rather obvious (e.g. the 'twins' round).
Nonetheless, it proved to be a reasonably high-scoring
quiz and at least 2 of the Albert's questions have
provided our respective teams with possible names for
next season. SPW Barry fancied 'Gustave Eiffel's
Knocking Shop' whilst the Charas fancied 'Swiss Kriss'
as our future nom-de-guerre. Watch this space!"
Meanwhile from the
dogfight at the bottom our correspondent Ivor gives the
paper another thumbs up:
"The football questions
about quakers and shakers, and glovers and
hatters were elegant both in construction and pairing (and even
had a confounder in Luton Town that trapped the unwary!).
However neither is our nomination for QotW. Rather
we are going for Louis Armstrong’s promotion of laxatives
and Gustav Eiffel’s unusually sited shagging parlour."
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