Right, when I posted about low scores on Mastermind earlier this week I had no idea what was going to happen on last night’s Mastermind. Just one of Fate’s nasty little tricks I suppose.
First up with a subject
very close to my heart was Helen Woolston. She was answering on British
butterflies. How I became interested in the subject is a long and not very
interesting story, but I did and knew enough to get 8 on the subject. Yes,
Helen’s 7 is a decent score, but she got some of the harder ones and missed
some easier ones which could have taken her close to double figures.
I scored nowt on
Melissa Hewitt’s round on the Bridgerton books. Hardly surprising since I’ve
never read any, but sometimes general knowledge will sneak you a point on a
subject you don’t know. Not this time. It looked as if Melissa herself was
struggling a bit too, and by the end of the round she had scored 5 points.
Next to come was David
Slater. I agree with everyone who has commented that he was sporting a rather
splendid waistcoat. David was answering on Jefferson Airplane. Again, I was not
totally convinced by the round. Alright, I didn’t know any, but I felt that 6 was
probably a little lower than he would have hoped.
Finally Carter Latif,
who gave us just a little bit of quality in his round on the often baffling TV
series Twin Peaks. Carter scored 8 for what was the best specialist round of
the night, which gave him a one point lead going into the second round.
Right, let me be
careful about what I say here. I am not meaning to criticize the contenders
here. Each put themselves on the line, and I am sure that each gave of their
best in the GK round. However this particular edition was crying out for one of
them to put in a round that blasted away the cobwebs of the specialists and
none of them really did that.
Melissa gave it a good
old lash, but the questions wouldn’t fall for her and she scored 6 for 11.
David did better, He came
closest of all of last night’s contenders to double figures, levelling out with
a pretty decent 9 for fifteen. Normally this would not give a contender a
realistic chance of a win, but there was something in the air.
Helen started her round
brightly enough, but as we’ve seen many times before she lost momentum in mid
round and could only add 6 to her total for 13.
This left only Carter,
but again, the questions did not fall kindly for the contender and he , like
Helen before him, finished with 13.
David, many
congratulations. You can only do your best – and you did – and a win is a win
is a win. I wish you the best of luck in the semi finals.
Right, let’s be
positive. None of our contenders failed to hit a double figure score. This
makes their scores a bit low but not disastrous. Just, I guess, a bit of a
perfect storm all coming together in the same heat. But surely more fuel to the
fire for the case for repechage places. I mean, when you have a contender who
only came second in his heat yet scored 10 more than anyone in this one. . .
well, do the Maths.
The Details
|
Helen Woolston |
British Butterflies |
7 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
|
Melissa Hewitt |
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton Books |
5 |
1 |
6 |
1 |
11 |
2 |
|
David Slater |
Jefferson Airplane |
6 |
1 |
9 |
1 |
15 |
2 |
|
Carter Latif |
Twin Peaks |
8 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
13 |
3 |
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