The Teams
Bristol
Lewis Jenkins
Lois Connolly
Hugo Goodwill (Capt)
Nathaniel Joyce
Warwick
Josh Howarth
Antoni Kluzowski
Chris Levesley (Capt)
Lucy Dennett
First starter – ceramic
– pig, has to be porcelain.Hugo Goodwill swooped in early for the first
starter. Trees in poems brought two correct answers. Fair play to Lewis Jenkins
who worked out that the PM who died after a brief tenure in 1827 was George
Canning. Works by Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates brought one bonus. The
next starter certainly seemed to be pointing towards Ants and it was Lucy
Dennett who plucked that piece of low hanging fruit. Video games where you play
as a non-anthropomorphic animal yielded Warwick a full house in quick time. Lewis
Jenkins struck first on the picture starter, very quickly recognizing the flag
of Bermuda.More flags featuring ships or boats brought a really rather
impressive full house in equally quick time. Neither team were that quick to recognize
characters from Jude the Obscure, but Nathaniel Joyce gave the correct answer. 2
bonuses on Don Giovanni were not a bad return. Antoni Kluzowski knew that Ken
Loach directed Kathy Come Home and this earned a set of bonuses on prime
numbers. Brought a brace for Warwick and a lap of honour to me for knowing
Euclid’s Elements. The score on ten minutes was 80-45 in Bristol’s favour
Lewis Jenkins took the
next starter, knowing that Guttland is in Luxembourg. Very gutt. Bonuses on
noodles used in Japanese cuisine brought two correct answers. For the next
starter both teams were in the right ball park for an indigenous people but
neither got the Maori quite. Chris Levesley knew the climatology geezer Koppen
for the next starter. 2 bonuses on Black Mountain College followed. For the
music starter nobody recognized the work of Grieg. Josh Howarth knew Englebert
DOlfuss was the assassinated chancellor of Austria. The music bonuses brought
one correct answer on pieces by Russian composers inspired by the music of the
East. Still, at least Warwick seemed to have shaken off their torpor and rubbed
the sleep out of their eyes. Antoni Kluzowski picked up references to a cradle
for the next starter. 1 bonus on the crown of thorns and the lead had shrunk to
5 points. You didn’t have to know anything about pre Columbian Americas to know
Las Vegas means the Meadows, you just had to wait until the next starter
actually asked it. So Warwick who jumped first lost 5 and Lewis Jenkins gave
the right answer.Elements used in control rods in nuclear reactors yielded two.
Ironically Lewis Jenkins came in too early for the next starter and lost five,
while it soon became obvious that the answer would be Versailles, as supplied
by Lucy Dennett.1 correct answer on the Australian NRL meant that Bristol led
110 – 100 at the 20 minute mark. Good match.
None of our teams recognized
a still from The Graduate for the second picture starter. A lengthy question
about , well, I’m not really sure led Chris Levesley to level the scores with
St. Petersburg. 1 bonus on stills from other films released in 1967 gave
Warwick a slender lead. Nobody knew John Wesley for the next rather soporific
starter. Chris Levesley took the next starter identifying potassium. A ballet
on the life of Virginia Woolf – bet that was a barrel of laughs – brought two
bonuses. Bristol weren’t finished yet and Lois Connolly came in early with the
term wattle and daub – change the t’s to f’s and you have my teaching style in
a nutshell. A full set on novels whose titles contain numbers narrowed the gap
to 5 again. Antoni Kluzowski recognized the ending of Troilus and Cressida for
the next starter. Two bonuses meant that Bristol would need a full house to
draw level. They didn’t get it. Chris Levesley knew that the Makassar Strait separates
Sulawesi and Borneo. Monarchs and universities brought a vital bonus. Lewis
Jenkins recognized two Belarussians for the next starter. A bonus meant that
they could not take the lead with a full house. It didn’t matter anyway, for
Chris Levesley took the next starter on the moon Titania. Chalk hill figures
brought them nowt, but it was too late for Bristol now. The gong sounded and
Warwick had won by 180 – 145.
Bristol achieved a BCR
of 66.5% while Warwick’s was 51.5%. The sheer weight of their buzzing brought
the win.
Amol Watch
I do sometimes wish
Amol wouldn’t be quite so indignant when a team misses out on something he
knows. Yeah, alright, it DID sound like anley-Hopkins, Amol, but he isn’t top
of everyone’s pops.
Interesting Fact
That I Didn’t Already Know Of The Week
Plenty I didn’t know,
but nothing particularly blew my socks off.
Baby Elephant Walk
Moment
American theologian Albert
Outler developed a so-called quadrilateral named for which British Religious
figure? Its four divisions of scripture,tradition, reason and experience are
said to reflect the principles of this man’s thought as expressed in hissermons,
which heavily influenced early Methodist preachers. Dum de dumdum dum dum dum
dum dumdum. Amen.
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