Neil's Weekly Question Round-Up - Week 7

The feedback from the scoresheets for WEEK 7 was as follows: 

SCORES:

Winners:

8: Lofthouse Lions

7: Carleton Grangers, The Vic

6: Olde Tavern Allsorts

5: Olde Taverners

Non-winners:

8: Featherstone Phoenix, Kippax British Legion, The Other Team

7: Flanagan’s Army, Golden Lion Dudes

6: Kippax Legionnaires

COMMENTS:

Olde Tavern Allsorts: Setter ran out of ideas towards end of Round 3, finishing with 2 Qs on current politics – not really General Knowledge. And Goliath earlier in round – anybody not get it??

[Ohio (J D Vance’s state) was got for two points by 2 players out of 6, and Mel Stride (Shadow Chancellor) was got for two points by 1 player. Goliath (David’s victim) was got for two points by all 6 players.]

The Other Team: Round 9 was B bias.

[See Statistics below.]

Lofthouse Lions: A few tougher individual questions.

[The only lower-scoring individual week (for 2 points in non-empty seats) was week 5, when there were three empty seats.]

Golden Lion Dudes: We swapped but to no avail. Beat fair and square.

Carleton Grangers: ‘A’ definitely easier again? Thoughts.

Kippax Legionnaires: Poor balance – again!

[See Statistics below.]

The Vic: A good night. Some tough questions.

[The average score this week was 70.6, and the average over weeks 1 to 6 was 71.6, so it was a tiny bit harder than average.]

Kippax British Legion: Very good. 

Olde Taverners: San Andreas is a state, not a city (the game has 3 cities – Los Santos, San Fierro + Las Venturas). Giant in Giant Salamander should not have been in bold. Yet another history round.

[The three cities in Grand Theft Auto titles between 2002-6 were asked for. San Andreas was indeed a state by then (though in earlier versions it was a city). And as a state, it includes the three cities in the comment above. The two actual cities in titles were correctly given on the sheet as Vice City and Liberty City, along with the dodgy answer San Andreas.]

[The Chinese species of which amphibian (the world’s largest) was asked for, and given as Giant Salamander (all in bold). The idea was surely only to require the answer ‘salamander’, in which case Chinese Giant should have been given in the question.]

[And see Round 10 subject below.]

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):

1-5

2-5

2-6

8-5

8-8

9-9

30-38 (Total) 

So an overall imbalance in A’s favour was indeed evident, though it was not a large one and was only shown by half of the matches.

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

9-6 (Detective fiction)

7-3 (India)

3-10 (Less common sports)

1-6 (Animals)

2-4 (Radio)

8-9 (20th century history)

Here, the first two rounds favoured ‘B’, but the remaining four favoured ‘A’. The latter included Round 9, which a comment suggested had a ‘B’ bias, but the first 6 questions were answered correctly by ‘B’ in that match, and the implication is that – with the questions the other way round – it would have been 3 ‘A’ and 3 ‘B’.

Only one answer was not got by anyone in the FTQL on the night (and as often seems to be the case, it was a B5 question):

BMX (event where Maris Strombergs was Olympic champion in 2008/2012)