Neil's Weekly Question Round-Up - Week 19

The feedback from the scoresheets for WEEK 19 was as follows:

SCORES:

Winners:

8: Carleton Grangers, Lofthouse Lions

7: Flanagan’s Army, Golden Lion Dudes, Kippax Legionnaires

Non-winners:

7: Olde Tavern Allsorts, Olde Taverners, The Other Team, The Vic

6: Kippax British Legion

COMMENTS:

Carleton Grangers: Very good game – great spirit.

Olde Taverners: Round 4 very unbalanced.

[See below.]

Kippax Legionnaires: Mixed. OK on women, but poor on sport.

The Vic: Mixed bag.

[The Legionnaires are no doubt referring to their own performance: they won 12-4 on the former and lost 4-11 on the latter.]

The Other Team: Round of famous men next week???

[Referring to the ‘Women in history’ round.]

Golden Lion Dudes: Islam round well tough.

[It was indeed one of the harder rounds – see below.]

Lofthouse Lions: Another good spread.

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):

6-2

4-6

4-7

6-6

8-8

7-10

35-39 (Total)

So there was a very slight favouring of ‘A’, though two matches produced a perfect balance. The 6-2 match was Lofthouse (playing ‘A’) v King’s Arms, in which the champions elect failed to get a clean sweep of their own 5 questions in any of the team rounds.

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

9-5 (Islam)

3-4 (TV characters)

5-10 (Women in history)

6-3 (Sport)

7-6 (Aquatic life)

5-11 (Drinks)

The Olde Taverners were right about the imbalance in round 4 (Women in history), though the imbalance in Drinks (which they also lost 10-6) was slightly more pronounced across all the matches. Their match against Carleton, incidentally, had the unusual property that there were no 1-point bonuses in the team rounds, i.e. if one team failed to get a question right, the other team didn’t get it right either.

There was an unusual incident in one match, where it appears the question-reader turned over two pages at once and read out round 10 in place of round 4. The teams solved the problem by simply swapping the two rounds over and, later on, playing round 4 as round 10.

Answers not got by anyone in the FTQL:

Takbir (Name for the phrase ‘Allahu Akbar’, expressing approval)

Limpet (Scientific name ‘patella’ because of its shape)

Amaretto (Combined with Cognac in a French Connection)

And answers not got in the Lofthouse/King’s Arms match that were answered correctly elsewhere:

Max Branning (Buried alive by his wife in EastEnders): Carleton, Flanagan’s, Phoenix

Octavia Hill (Wrote Homes of the London Poor and co-founded National Trust): Carleton, Flanagan’s, Legionnaires

Galway (7-day horse-racing festival): Allsorts

Pike (Muskellunge is largest member): Flanagan’s

Manzanilla (Cadiz sherry named after ‘camomile’): Carleton, Legionnaires