Hello, good evening and welcome. We’re getting there, dearly beloved. 19 out of 24 first round episodes down now. So let’s take a closer look at what happened tonight then, shall we?
So, we kicked off with James Davidson answering on the Films
of Nicole Kidman. Now, if this round did one thing for me it was to confirm
that I really haven’t watched that many films starring Nicole Kidman. I did
manage to scramble a couple of points though. I guessed one, and dredged up the
pregnancy thing about Lucille Ball from the murky bargain basement of memory.
James kicked us off pretty damn well, to be perfectly obvious. He got up into
double figures and that is always going to give you a fair chance.
I did think that Marcus Deal might get into double figures too after a very
confident start. I’m very happy to say that my boyhood passing interest in astronomy,
and pretty decent knowledge of Greek Mythology brought me three points. With
five points after 2 specialist rounds I had the thrill of the chase in my heart,
and the scent of blood in my nostrils. A double figure aggregate on specialist
has been a bit of an elusive beast for me in this series. Marcus just started to stall a
little towards the end of his round. Scoring 8 showed that he knew his stuff,
but I couldn’t help feeling he might regret not having got just a couple more.
So to our third round, the Children’s books of Roald Dahl, as
offered by Katie Eliot. Now, if Nicole Kidman has been in a lot of films I’ve
never seen, then Roald Dahl wrote a lot of books that I’ve never read. Listen,
I’m doing well if I can name the kids who accompanied Charlie to Willie Wonka’s
factory on a good day. So I was very happy to garner three points from this
round. Katie took a respectable 6, but looked rather uncomfortable and not at
all happy with herself when she returned to her seat. Well, being four points
behind at the half way stage is not a comfortable place to be, I’m afraid.
Caz Evans finished off with Take That. Right, confession
time. Last weekend I did check out what tonight’s subjects were going to be,
and I knew I wouldn’t have time to wiki challenge all of them. I decided that
Take That was the least likely to bring me any points, so I wikied it. Which
meant . . . I got five points on this round! Yeah, okay, Caz got all the ones I
got and another 2 on top, but I was delighted – this gave me an aggregate of 13
for the specialist round, which is my second best after the week when I wikied
all four of the subjects. Caz’s 7 was again perfectly respectable, but, I felt,
just a little way short of giving her a realistic shot.
So to the GK round. As I’ve said before, it can’t be easy
bringing yourself back to the chair if your specialist round hasn’t quite gone
the way you might have hoped that it would. Katie made a good start, but soon was
bowled a few where I think she knew the answer but just couldn’t get it past
the tip of her tongue. So once again, she achieved a respectable score of 7,
but although this put her temporarily in the lead it looked pretty obvious that
she wasn’t necessarily going to stay there for very long.
I was impressed with the way that Caz Evans began her round.
In fact the whole of her round wasn’t bad at all. She showed a pretty decent
general knowledge all round, as she steadily accumulated the points to give
herself a double figure score of 11. Now, 18 didn’t look like it was quite high
enough to win, but at the very least it would give those yet to come something
to think about and play on their minds.
Marcus’ GK round was rather similar to his specialist round.
He started confidently, quickly and well, but I’m afraid he started to get a
few wrong, and this seemed to lengthen the corridor of doubt he was trying to
traverse. He didn’t in any way do badly, but he needed a double figure score.
10 would have been enough since he had far fewer passes than Caz did.
Agonisingly though he fell 1 short, scoring 9 for a total of 17.
Could Caz do it? Well, James Davidson needed 8 and no more
than 7 passes, and this didn’t look a huge ask. Yet we’ve seen in this very
series that sometimes the leader at the half time interval just can’t quite
make it stick in GK. No such agonies for James, though. He matched Caz’ score
of 11, which was enough to give him a 3 point win. Well played to you sir. As always, I wish you the best of luck
in the semi final.
The Details
|
James Davidson |
The Films of Nicole Kidman |
10 |
1 |
11 |
1 |
21 |
2 |
|
Marcus Deal |
Constellations of the Northern Hemisphere |
8 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
|
Katie Eliot |
The Children’s Books of Roald Dahl |
6 |
3 |
7 |
6 |
13 |
9 |
|
Caz Evans |
Take That |
7 |
4 |
11 |
4 |
18 |
8 |
2 comments:
Have you ever answered more questions correctly on someone's specialist subject than they did, without researching it at all beforehand?
I achieved this accolade for what I believe is the first time ever in this episode, with the Roald Dahl round - I wasn't counting, but I'm certain I got more right than Katie. She did get a couple I missed, but I got all three of the ones she passed on.
Feeling good about that!
I can recall doing it once or twice over the years, but only on subjects I really know pretty well. So for example, on the Olympic Games which was my SS on my ill fated 2006 appearance. I do it more often on the sleb series, even when it's not a subject I know particularly well since a) the sleb questions are often easier in my opinion and b) there's usually at least 1 sleb in each show who really hasn't got to grips with their subject for whatever reason.
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