Neil's Weekly Question Round-Up - Week 12

The feedback from the scoresheets for WEEK 12 was as follows:

SCORES:

Winners:

8: Featherstone Phoenix, Kippax Legionnaires, Olde Taverners

7: Golden Lion Dudes

Non-winners:

8: The Vic

7: Kippax British Legion, Olde Tavern Allsorts

COMMENTS:

Olde Taverners: Interesting varied rounds, good mix and balance. Shame about the repeated questions.

[A question in round 9 about Picasso’s birthplace was repeated as a spare question.]

The Vic: Good mix of questions.

Golden Lion Dudes: Not too bad.

Featherstone Phoenix: Great mix.

STATISTICS:

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

4-4

6-6

7-5

7-6

24-21 (Total)

So the balance was very good, with just the tiniest favouring of ‘B’.

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

4-5 (Germany)

1-4 (British TV shows)

10-0 (Shakespeare)

6-2 (Food)

1-5 (A-OK)

2-5 (Chemical elements)

So, although the overall balance was very good, the rounds showed a lot of variation, the Shakespeare round proving particularly hard for ‘A’.

There were three answers not got by anyone in the FTQL (perhaps as a result of Lofthouse Lions not playing!):

Emilia (Iago’s wife in Othello)

Lokma/Loukoumades (Small Greek/Turkish pastries)

Lithuania (Last pagan country in Europe)