Neil's Weekly Question Round-Up - Week 8

The feedback from the scoresheets for WEEK 8 was as follows:

SCORES:

Winners:

9: Lofthouse Lions

8: Carleton Grangers, Kippax Legionnaires

7: The Vic

Non-winners:

9: Olde Taverners

7: Featherstone Phoenix, The Other Team

6: Kippax British Legion

Drawing teams:

7: Golden Lion Dudes, Olde Tavern Allsorts

COMMENTS:

Golden Lion Dudes: A balanced set of questions.

Olde Tavern Allsorts: Nice to have an opera round, though it consisted of 8 easy/guessable questions and 2 impossible ones at the end.

Carleton Grangers: Good quiz. Friendly atmosphere; good opponents. Mix of hard + fair.

Featherstone Phoenix: Good quiz. Great opponents.

Olde Taverners: Good rounds, interesting, evenly balanced. Possibly the best set of the season.

The Vic: OK. Some tough questions.

Kippax Legionnaires: More classical, please.

STATISTICS:

The numbers of questions remaining unanswered (by either team) in rounds 1/2/4/7/9/10 were as follows (in the 5 matches, expressed as A-B):

3-0

5-2

4-4

5-10

9-7

26-23 (Total)

This bears out the comments about the quiz being well-balanced, though a slight favouring of ‘B’ is seen in 3 matches and in the total.

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

5-3 (Words)

3-1 (1960s pop music)

7-5 (Opera)

5-7 (Flags)

3-4 (Explorers)

3-3 (In the news)

Here it seems that the first half favoured ‘B’ and the second half favoured ‘A’ (though less prominently). Whilst this will have cancelled out the imbalance in most matches, it will have accentuated it in a match where the teams swapped at half-time; Olde Tavern Allsorts can therefore consider themselves to have got the rough end of the quiz in both halves. Meanwhile, Kippax Legionnaires’ liking for classical music (see comment above) is evident in them winning the Opera round 13-4 in the only match where all of its 10 questions were answered correctly.

Only one answer was not got by anyone in the FTQL: 

Food (Subject of citophobia)

However, this is not too surprising, because the setter (who asked for the word to be spelt) appears to have conflated cibophobia and sitophobia. The former is from Latin and would have been gettable (cf ante cibum, meaning ‘before food’ on prescriptions), whilst the latter is from Greek and is in Chambers and Collins dictionaries.