The Teams
Durham
Caspar Chatham
Tom Haines-Matos
Amelia Rees (Capt)
James Gowers
Merton, Oxford
Ciaran Duncan
Evelyn Ong
Elliot Cosnett (Capt)
Verity Fleetwood-Law
I will review this week’s show, probably tomorrow, but
first let me tie up the loose ends with this review of last week’s match. I had
the first starter from the songwriter brothers, and James Gowers took one more
clue, the civil war general before he too came in with the name Sherman. Films
set during World War Two provided two bonuses. Evelyn Ong recognised the Kalevala
for the next starter and Merton were up and running as well. Tennis courts
named after notable players made an interesting bonus set and took three
bonuses for a full house and the lead. The next starter saw the rare event of
me getting a maths starter right. Only on the last clue did I know it was
median though. Evelyn Ong took a double with that one. Eugene ‘qui est ca?’ Boudin
provided two bonuses. For the picture starter we were shown an outline of
Cumbria with the locations of museums dedicated to a particular writer. Well,
it could only be Wordsworth. Or Beatrix Potter. Or Alfred Wainwright. Or Napper
Wainwright. It was Wordsworth as Elliot Cosnett well knew. More maps showing locations
of other writers’ museums and centres passed them by. To be fair they weren’t
any of them quite as easy as the starter. The next starter referenced the anti
heroine of my favourite comic novel “Vanity Fair” and Tom Haines-Matos showed
his mettle by giving the answer of Becky Sharp. Fish that are native to South
America brought just the one bonus. So after a lively start Merton’s finer
quality work with the bonuses saw them leading by 55 – 35.
For the next starter St. Augustine’s Abbey was the first
big clue to Canterbury Cathedral, but both teams sat on their buzzers a bit
until Verity Fleetwood-Law gave the correct answer. Thinkers associated with
the Frankfurt school saw Merton give three names that, like Vienna, meant
nothing to me but earned them a full house. Disco Elysium sounds like a place I
once visited by mistake in 1984, but it was the answer to the next starter,
snapped up quickly by Elliot Cosnett. That ever popular subject, turbans in
history, brought two bonuses, but they threw away the middle one by passing
after mentioning the right answer. Various Cliffs including Jimmy and Clarice were
snapped up by Caspar Chatham for the next starter. Literature bonuses on
perfect plots yielded nothing, I’m afraid. Neither team could answer an
interminable question on selenium. Ciaran Duncan knew an Aeolian harp when he
heard one being described and this meant every member of the Merton team had
answered a starter. Inorganic chemistry – well actually it provided me with one
correct answer and a lap of honour. Merton took a full house. For the music
starter nobody recognised the music of the Happy Mondays. It took a while
before Ciaran Duncan identified the adjective blithe for the next starter but
it earned Merton the music bonuses. More music pieces whose titles are used for
biopics about their performers provided a rare failure for Merton as they didn’t
get any of them. Ciaran Duncan recognised a lovely little bit of anaphora when
he heard it to take the next starter. A full house on the Long Parliament followed.
James Gowers took the next starter knowing that Clive Sullivan was one of the
all time greats of Rugby League. A full
house on Mediterranean cuisine helped but at the 20 minute mark Merton were
still galloping away from Durham with 160 – 65.
Evelyn Ong recognised a quote from Kasimir Malevich for the
next starter. Broadway shows in 2024 (presumably the one in New York and not
the ones in Ealing or Fulham) proved no obstacle to Merton and they took
another full house. Tom Haines-Matos recognised Marie Antoinette’s portrait for
the second picture starter. More portraits by the same artist sadly yielded no
further points. I knew the next starter on synovial fluid which neither team
did. James Gowers guessed that the Jordan river flows through Salt Lake City to
win bonuses on sand. Durham failed to answer any of them. Caspar Chatham knew
the phrase Out, out precedes brief candle in a play by Shakespeare. Roman Gods
brought two auick bonuses which took Durham into triple figures. They were
having a good patch at this time Durham. Tom Haines-Matos took the next starter
on the epithet The Conqueror. National flags are often a happy hunting ground
on UC and they brought Durham 2 bonuses. If it’s a rock that makes column
structures then just buzz and say basalt. Elliot Cosnett did and won the next
starter. Bonuses fell so quickly to Merton I didn’t even notice what they were
about before Merton had taken a full house. Elliot Cosnett came in very quickly
for the next starter on the production of silk in the Byzantine Empire. Cornelius
Vermuyden (you know! The Dutch Water engineer? ) only yielded the one bonus,
but so what? The match was long since over as a contest. The white lion order
of Czechia again saw a good interruption from the Merton skipper. The one bonus
there was time for took the score to 235 – 120 at the buzzer.
For the record Durham managed a BCR of 42% to Merton’s 71%,
and that basically tells you what you need to know about how the match went.
Amol Watch
Nothing in particular that I noticed, sorry.
Interesting Fact That I didn’t Already Know Of
The Week
Jordan River runs through Salt Lake City
Baby Elephant Walk Moment
In bio chemistry what chemical element can replace sulphur in
cysteine to form a distinct proteinogenic amino acid? It was discovered in 1817
by Jon Jakob Berzelius and given its name due to its similarity to the then
recently discovered element tellurium itself named (incorrect buzz) after the
Earth.. – Yes, that would be dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdumium
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