Neil's Weekly Question Round-Up – KO Cup Rd 2/Plate Rd 1

The feedback from the scoresheets for the KO CUP RD 2/PLATE RD 1 was as follows:

SCORES:

Winners:

9: Lofthouse Lions

8: Carleton Grangers, Flanagan’s Army, Kippax Legionnaires

7: Featherstone Phoenix, Olde Taverners

Non-winners:

8: The Vic

6: Kippax British Legion, Olde Tavern Allsorts, The Other Team

COMMENTS:

Olde Taverners: Quite difficult, especially American geography. Pretty well balanced.

The Other Team: Bit difficult for us.

Carleton Grangers: V good game. V good opponents.

The Vic: Good quiz, subjects and balance.

Olde Tavern Allsorts: Might have been closer if we’d been ‘B’?

[See below.]

Featherstone Phoenix: Art was terrible.

[They and their opponents, Kippax British Legion, got the first pair of questions right – and nothing else.]

Lofthouse Lions: Excellent.

STATISTICS:

The numbers of questions remaining unanswered (by either team) in rounds 1/2/4/7/9/10 were as follows (in the 6 matches, expressed as A-B):

2-3

3-2

5-3

7-2

11-5

11-11

39-26 (Total)

So there does seem to be a favouring of ‘B’, as suggested by the Allsorts (their match was the 7-2 one). 

Split by rounds instead of matches, the same unanswered questions break down as:

7-3 (British politics)

0-4 (Classic sitcoms)

9-3 (Words)

9-7 (US Geography)

9-8 (Art)

5-1 (Sport)

Based on those figures, Art and US Geography (both mentioned in the comments) were indeed the two hardest rounds.

There were no answers not got by anyone in the FTQL. But there were five answers not got in the Lofthouse/King’s Arms match, and these are given below, along with the teams that did get them (in the spirit of praising those teams rather than embarrassing the ones that didn’t):

Chicago (Setting of Married… with Children and Shameless): both Kippax teams

Predicate (Other part of sentence along with subject): Carleton, Allsorts, Phoenix

Needles/injections (Trypanophobia): Flanagan’s

Providence (Brown University): Flanagan’s, The Vic

Rubens (Knighted by Britain and Spain): Carleton, Flanagan’s, Allsorts