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This week the
questions were set by the
Opsimaths.
Well, a mixed
reception after last week's universal thumbs up for TMTCH.
Tony thought it a "b. awful" paper. At the Griffin it
was pretty well received by both SPW and the Charabancs - though (acting as QM) I decided to read a spare rather than
use the trick question referring to the Mount Rushmore
sculptures as a 'Rock group'.
The Pigs
certainly liked it citing "Mary's wonderful diction" as a
major factor. Perversely they thought the 'Rock group'
question was QotW.
The Getaways
clearly flourished notching the evening's highest score.
They thought the Carlsberg Special question was a corker.
Meanwhile at the
White Swan Ivor reports in:
"The idea of mini bingo was
interesting. It certainly speeded things up as
there was less toing and froing through several sheets
of paper as is the case with larger groupings of bingo
questions. It also allowed the harder questions to
gravitate to one round. In our case Round 6 was a
killer with 6/8 unanswerable by anyone and the only
points scored being two 'steals'.
Did we enjoy the quiz?
Plenty of tricky questions, some falling right and some
not (e.g. the Portsmouth districts fell to Peter from
Portsmouth). On balance, however, a good test.
As always you never quite enjoy it as much if you lose -
and tend to reflect on the ones that got away such as my
guess of 1530 for the union of Wales with England.
Had I said 1531 and got 2 points the game would have
swung our way.
A few questions tonight deviated
from the straight road of traditional quizzing towards
the convoluted paths of Round Britain Quiz. Our QotW is
one of these atypical questions; namely the rock group
with its members dead and one assassinated (it certainly
earned a groan).
Tonight's result makes the race
for 4th place at least a 3 (if not 5) horse race."
....and Ivor's opposite number in the Ethel/History Men
clash, Roddy, adds:
"We answered 'Tottenham/Battle
hymn of the Republic' for the question about football
chants, which to our chagrin was disallowed. Surely
everyone knows that Spurs supporters began singing this
chant in 1960!! Some discussion ensued after which we
were refused a spare by the History Men. Retribution
was immediate since they chose for their very next
question the one about the rock group, which should have
remained in the Christmas cracker.
The biggest cheer of the
evening came when Roz answered a football question
correctly (Thierry Henri).
Apart from the horror of Round
6 there were seven unanswered questions which seemed
reasonable."
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