tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54012801715636865152024-03-17T03:07:13.291-07:00Life After MastermindA loveable miscellany of all things quizLondiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger2767125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-758517262680417072024-03-17T03:06:00.000-07:002024-03-17T03:06:13.436-07:00Mastermind semi final five preview<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Okay, dear readers. I’m going to give you the list of tomorrow’s
semi-final five specialist subjects. See if you can work out which one would be
my banker and which one looks like a Londinius nul points.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">British Prime Ministers of the 18<sup>th</sup> Century<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rock band The Stranglers 1974 – 1990<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">American Poet Elizabeth Bishop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oscar Winning Animated Feature films <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s easy for me to say where the nul points are likely to
be scored. I’m afraid that I am not at all familiar with the American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, so any points there look very unlikely. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As for the other three subjects, they each have the
potential to being me one or two, but none of them looks like a secure source
of points. I liked the Stranglers a lot really from the end of the punk period
through the early – mid 80s, but how many questions in the round will relate to
this I don’t know. I know a bit about all Prime Ministers, but nowhere near as
much about the 18<sup>th</sup> century ones as I do about the 19<sup>th</sup>
century ones. Then Oscar Winning Animated Feature films. I’m not clear about the
parameters of this round. Does it mean just films that won the Oscar for Best
Animated feature film, or does it mean animated feature films that won ANY
Oscar? The former has only been going since 2001 so that’s really doable. The
later – not so much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Forecast – well I’d always rather underforecast than overforecast,
so let’s save anything higher than five would be pretty good for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-48660250145479198792024-03-17T02:51:00.000-07:002024-03-17T02:51:40.785-07:00Little things . . . <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It can happen that you go to a quiz which, hand on heart,
you think was not that great and yet still walk away remembering a couple of
questions that you felt proud of yourself for getting right.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Last Thursday’s rugby club quiz was not very good. Yeah, I
know, I’m always criticising other setters’ quizzes. If it makes anyone feel
better about it they can start their own blog and criticise mine if they wish. Or
we ca sit down together, discuss it face to face and then agree that I was
right. RIP Brian Clough. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, this is as always just my opinion but on Thursday night I felt that there were issues with the quiz. In no particular order these were –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a quiz in which every other round had a different
theme. I’m not saying that it is impossible to make a themed quiz which is
satisfying to the teams playing, but it is difficult. It requires a level of real
skill to prevent rounds from becoming mini specialist quizzes. Each themed
round can alienate teams who do not have a particular knowledge of or interest
in that subject. I felt that this was pretty much the case on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a quiz in which too many of the questions excluded the
younger players. In the four general knowledge rounds too many questions required
the teams being able to remember the 60s or fifties. It was a quiz which would
have sounded old fashioned when I stared playing in the club. In 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There were too many whythe’ells. A whythe’ell is a question
which provokes you to ask – why the ‘ell are they asking that? It’s the kind of
question where you wonder why the setter would think that anyone else might
know it and why the setter would think anyone else might be interested in it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having said all that, as I did say at the start of this
post, there were a couple of questions that left me glowing. Four of the rounds
were not themed and would end with the answers to questions 7, 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 9 all being connected, and the answer to number
10 being what connected them. So we were asked<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The actor who played Withnail in Withnail and I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Team Sky rider who won four tours de France beginning
in 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The member of the Carry on Team who played the Black
Fingernail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, we had all of the answers – Richard E. Grant – Chris Froome
– Sid James, but could not see any connection. Then it struck me – Grant was
born in Swaziland/ Eswatini, Froome in Kenya and Sid James in South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So born in Africa was the connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then in the very last round we had this one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which team, beginning with ‘H’ did Eric Morecambe think had
won the FA Cup?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which team sport was played in the Olympics from 1900 to
1936 and shares its name with a Volkswagen car? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which Elvis Presley song begins with the lines “As the snow
flies on a cold and grey Chicago mornin, A poor little baby child is born”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, we had the car and the song – Polo and In the Ghetto
quickly. But the Eric Morecambe one? All I could think of was that I did recall
him from time to time coughing - h’Arsenal!- So we went with that, which gave
us <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arsenal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Polo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What did I know about any of them? Well, I was pretty sure
that the first ghetto was that of Venice. And I also had a feeling that the
term arsenal derived from Venice somehow. And Venice has Marco Polo airport. So
I went for Venice. Bingo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ll be honest, I’ve been mentally congratulating myself ever
since over that one. Which all goes to show, little things please little minds.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-62251025965050540302024-03-12T11:01:00.000-07:002024-03-12T12:56:47.778-07:00University Challenge 2024 Sudden Death Quarter Final - Manchester v. Christ Church, Oxford<p><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Teams</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Bluma De Los Reyes-White<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ilya Kullmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Hiru Senehedheera (Capt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Dan Grady<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Christ Church, Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Eliza Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Melika Gorgianeh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Arthur Wotton (Capt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Elliot Lowe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Howdy pardners and thank’ee kindly for joining me for another
wee dram in the last chance saloon. And following last week’s fine performance
from Christ Church it really was a case of you pays yer money and takes yer
choice here. I couldn’t pick a winner before we came under starter’s orders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Hiru Senehedheera came in too early on the first starter,
which remained obscure until the mention of the answer’s trusted lieutenant,
Dessalines created the opening to allow Arthur Wootton in for his first starter
with Toussaint L’Ouverture. The Oxford skipper took 8 starters last time out,
so his buzzer finger would be crucial to CC’s chances of progression. Two
bonuses followed on digraphia. Hiru Senehedheera didn’t have to fish too deeply
for the mathematician Poisson to answer the next starter (see what I did
there?) Medical terms combining Greek and latin derivations, for example
neonatal, provided us both with a full house. Yeah, I did take a lap of honour.
Dan Grady won the buzzer race to provide the name King Kong for the next
starter. Two bonuses on Schopenhauer were taken. I loved the response to the
question about Ixion – it’s not in Percy Jackson so I don’t know! Various clues
to the word jazz went begging for the next starter. Anechoic chamber? Nope, me
neither but the Manchester skipper knew it for the next starter. Two bonuses on
the prophet Elijah followed. The picture starter brought a halt to the
Manchester charge as Arthur Wootton took his second starter recognising the locations
of the cities of Tokyo and Kyoto. More Japanese places with name elements in
common brought one bonus. This meant that as we neared 10 minutes the score
stood at 55 – 35 to Manchester.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">None of us knew what ANT stood for so the next starter went
unanswered. Right, now I’m very sorry but the first words of he next starter, “Born
in 1791, which physicist – “ were enough for me to shout FARADAY! And so
confident was I that I’d completed another lap of honour before Hiru Senehedheera
buzzed in with the same. To be fair, it is a very short lap. A UC special set
on prominent thinkers whose name appears in other words proved to be
surprisingly tricky and we both only had the one. Ilya Kullmann buzzed in
before the next starter revealed that the Shakespeare title character it wanted
was female. He answered Macbeth. Cleopatra was the answer but CC shot wide of
the open goal. So the next starter asked about the four corners National
Monument in the USA. Oliver Wotton knew it was maintained by the Navajo nation.
Amol announced that their bonuses were on relativistic mechanics and I prepared
for the strains of the Baby Elephant Walk to start. Gawd knows what the
questions were about, but just like my good self, CC didn’t get any of them.
Nobody knew the Non-juror bishops for the next starter. Eliza Dean came in
early for the next starter on Negritude. Musical performers named in Angela
Davis’ work Blues Legacies and Black Feminism were not as hard a set as it
sounded, and CC failed to score. With the gap standing at 5 points we came to
the music starter. Nobody could identify the music from the ballet Swan Lake. Arthur Wotton won the buzzer race to answer about Robin Hood Bay to earn the dubious
reward of the music bonuses – more pas de deux from other ballets. Nul points.
CC were having a purple patch with the buzzer, but failures on the bonuses
meant that they weren’t pulling away from Manchester. Dan Grady stopped the rot
on the next starter which asked for gravitational waves. Blue plaques in North
Staffordshire paid fitting tribute to Elizabeth Wardle, the lady behind the Victorian
copy of the Bayeux Tapestry where the naked men in the borders seem to be
wearing cycling shorts. Currently in Reading Museum and check it out if you don’t
believe me. Manchester took a full house. Nothing daunted Arthur Wotton knew
that the upside down tree is the baobab for the next starter. A timely full
house on Jose Luis Borges gave CC the lead by 95 – 90 with just a few minutes
to show us who wanted it more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Arthur Wotton certainly wanted it. He won the buzzer race
to identify two of the three German states that border Poland. Bonuses on de
Toqueville’s “Democracy in America” – which surely inspired Kim Wilde’s
immortal “Kids in America” – brought two correct answers, which meant that
Manchester would need a full house to even the scores. So to the second picture
starter. Elliot Lowe correctly identified a sculpture, of which one of the
figures depicted on it was Aeneas. Three more 17<sup>th</sup> century artistic
portrayals of the story of Aeneas netted now for them. Still, Manchester now
needed at least two visits to the table. Both teams sat on their buzzer a bit
for the next starter until Ilya Kullman identified Topkapi Palace as the
residence of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. Bonuses on industrial catalysts
brought one correct answer. Would it be the catalyst that set off a Manchester
revival? It looked like it when Bluma de los Reyes-White gave the correct
answer of Nobel Prize winning scientist Calvin (the awards committee obviously
ignored his partner, Hobbes.) South American cities taking their names from
cities in Spain gave them a full house, and the lead. None of us knew the Roman
poet Sextus Propertius (or even his stupider brother Emptius Propertius). Hiru Senehedheera
came in too early and lost five on the next starter but CC could not take
advantage. The Manchester skipper made immediate amends, winning the buzzer
race to identify the painter Lucien Freud. The Japanese costume designer Emi
Wada did nothing for Manchester other than to run the clock down. Arthur Wotton’s
buzzer finger fired too early on the next question, but Manchester couldn’t
find the word wax to seal the deal. Yet still Captain Fantastic Wotton came
back to take the next starter on the word confederate. Only one bonus on small
choo choos in art left them one bonus behind Manchester. Dan Grady just won the
buzzer race on the next starter on Simone de Beauvoir. GONGGGG! Yes, after a
terrific match it all came down to the last starter. 145 played 130. Congratulations
to Manchester, and many commiserations to Christ Church. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Christ Church achieved a BCR of 37, while Manchester who
scored fewer starters had a BCR of 63, and that’s what won it and lost it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol Watch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">With the ANT starter Amol made he slightly cryptic comment “I
thought that was going to take you some time to work out.” Er, they didn’t work
it out, Amol. They had it wrong. Amol seemed surprised that Christ Church didn’t
know de Toqueville wrote ‘Democracy in America’. Well, they’re all easy if you
know them, Amol, and difficult if you don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of The
Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Digraphia means languages which can be written in more than
one script.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Baby Elephant Walk Moment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In a ratio relating to the rest mass of a particle and its
mass when travelling a velocity v the Greek letter gamma is used to represent a
factor named after which Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate born (buzz)<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-81474419234005251942024-03-12T01:31:00.000-07:002024-03-12T01:31:00.553-07:00Sheep and Goats<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I once had it said to me that
anyone can have one good specialist round in Mastermind but it’s having two
good specialist rounds in a row that sorts the men out from the boys, or the
sheep from the goats, or whatever happens to be your analogy of choice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m not totally sure I agree. For
one thing not just anyone can have one good specialist round. There’s a number
of factors which can work against you. There might be a mismatch between your
understanding of the parameters of the subject and the question setter’s. You
may have inadvertently chosen a subject that is just too wide. You might be
under the weather on the day or overwhelmed by the atmosphere and the experience of
actually being in THE chair. For whatever reason you might have been
underprepared as well – family or work circumstances, hubris or just plain
laziness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I stress now that I haven’t
carried out any kind of statistical analysis on this but it’s my impression that
having a ‘mare is less likely on your second subject than your first. Just
taking the current series, if we take the arbitrary score of 7 as an
underperformance on Specialist, the of the 16 specialist rounds we’ve seen in
the semi finals of this series so far, only four of them fell into this
category. This may well be because you’ve already shown that you can prepare one
specialist subject well to get you into the semis in the first place. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For what it’s worth I always
found it helpful to view any subject I felt I could take on as being equally
good. Once you start saying things like – I used up my best subject on the first
round – you are actually giving yourself excuses for not preparing the next
subject as well as you can. And as in real life, preparation is the best guarantee of success you ca possibly give yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-78732769524163050932024-03-12T01:05:00.000-07:002024-03-12T01:05:42.277-07:00Mastermind 2024 Semi Final 4<p><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Tale of the Tape</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Specialist </span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Passes</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">GK Score</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">GK Passes</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Total Score</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Total Passes</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Tie break</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Sharon Chambers</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">8</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">16</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">24</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">-</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Sadie de Souza</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">13</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">10</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">23</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">3</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Elliot Hooson</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">9</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">10</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">19</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">-</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Thomas Nelson<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">10<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">16<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">26<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">0<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Well, well, well. For the
first time in this set of semis one of the heat winners was unable to take
part. This meant that the highest scoring runner up was brought in to take his
place. Scott Torrance was the unfortunate contender forced by circumstances to
miss out. You could make a case that the other three contenders were
unfortunate too, since taking his place was Thomas Nelson. Only two heat winners
scored higher than Thomas’ 26 and no passes in the heats, unfortunately one of
them was in the same heat as his.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Sharon Chambers kicked off the
evening with her round on Peter Cushing. Sharon scored 6 points, considerably
better than the four that I managed. But I was fairly certain that this was
going to leave her in difficulties. You have to reckon on at least one of the
other contenders getting close to a maximum in specialist which would leave
Sharon too far behind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Elliot Hooson’s subject, the
History of Percussion Instruments, really was the wild card specialist of the
night for me. What I mean by that is that I had no reason to think it would be
a round that would particularly suit me and yet it was the kind of round where
good general knowledge might pick you up a couple of points. Slightly more as
it happened. I took 3 for an aggregate of 7 with what looked to be two decent
rounds to go. Elliot scored 10 with a quality round which looked as if it would
leave him in contention as we turned for home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Sadie de Souza was answering
on what I thought would be my banker subject, the Sarah Jane Adventures. Well,
actually it only provided me with my joint worst score of the night. I took
another three, although if I could have counted answers which were on the tip
of my tongue I could have doubled that. Still, that took the aggregate to
double figures with only one round still to go. Sadie produced a very fine round
to take the lead with 11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally then came Thomas. He
was answering on Sir Bobby Robson. My thought was that I’d know enough to get a
couple on this. As indeed I did, I fact, a couple of couples. That four took me
to an aggregate of 14, my second best of the semis. I can’t remember the last
time that I scored at least 3 on all four specialist subjects. Last time out
Thomas trailed the leader by two points at this same stage. Last night he was
ahead by one after a fine 12 points. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">So to the General Knowledge.
Sharon Chambers had set one of the highest GK scores in the heats with 16.
Starting out 6 points off the lead last night even if she could repeat this a
win looked unlikely. It would make things interesting, though. Well, it didn’t
quite work out that way, although Sharon did score a good 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I would not have enjoyed
Elliot’s GK questions had I been sitting in the chair to face them. It’s
already happened once during these semifinals that a contender has received a
set of questions I have found noticeably less to my liking than others, and
this was a second time. Judging by he pain on his face at times Elliot must
have felt so too. He tried guessing. He tried passing – in the end he passed
five. But he did at least manage the 7 that he needed to go into the lead. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Sadie had scored 10 in her GK
round in the heat. With Thomas yet to come she needed all of that and more if
possible. Well, she gave it a lash and she produced answers to all of her
questions. 8 of them were correct, which gave her 19. Would it be enough? In
all honesty I felt that this didn’t look likely. But then strange things can
sometimes happen in semifinals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Nothing strange happened in
this one, though. Thomas needed 8 to win, and he reeled off an excellent 14. He never looked in any difficulty, and produced a great case for reinstating
repechage slots in the semi-finals. I’m not going to ruin anyone’s chances by making
predictions at this stage of the proceedings, but Thomas now has at least a 1
in 6 chance of walking away with the whole thing. Well done sir, and best of
luck. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Details<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Sharon
Chambers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Peter
Cushing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Elliot
Hooson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
History of Percussion Instruments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Sadie
de Souza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Sarah Jane Adventures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Thomas
Nelson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Bobby Robson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-57552603324110054122024-03-11T09:48:00.000-07:002024-03-11T09:48:58.336-07:00Give a Dog a (bad) Nickname<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’ve outlined my philosophy on
quiz compilation quite a number of times over the years. You can boil it down to
the central tenet that when you compile a pub quiz then your one overriding
purpose is to give the teams the best evening’s entertainment that you are
capable of. If you try to keep sight of this goal you can avoid many of the
failures that blight quizzes of this sort.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yeah, it was my turn to set
the quiz last Thursday. I’ve explained in the past that I usually set picture
handouts, even though they are my personal least favourite type of handout since
they rarely offer you the chance to use what you do know to help work out what
you don’t. You tend to either recognise the face, or not – there’s rarely
helpful clues in the picture. But . . . other people like them. Since it only
tends to be Jess and I who use picture handouts, I feel that I should keep doing
them, even though I don’t actually like them myself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But I will admit that my
pleasure in making a quiz for the club is not totally selfless. I don’t like the
kind of question master who asks something mind-bogglingly obscure and boring then congratulates themselves when nobody gets the answer. But now and again I do
like it if I manage to come up with a question which people don’t all get right,
but when I give the answer it makes some of them metaphorically slap their
foreheads and go D’Oh! For example, I asked –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Dial of Destiny is the
latest film in which franchise?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which paper fastening mechanism is defined as <span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">a rectangular
sheet of springy </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel" title="Steel"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">steel</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> curved into a
cylinder, with two flat steel strips inserted to form combined handles and
jaws.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Which
range of die-cast metal car toys were introduced to the UK in 1956 and
manufactured in Swansea for the first three decades?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">What
is the connection between your last three answers?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Now the
connected answers were :-</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Indiana
Jones</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Bulldog
clip</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Corgi
toys</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">If
you only look at answers two and three then it’s obvious. But Indiana Jones?
Well, of course, Indiana, from whom Henry Jones Jr. took the name, was the
family Jones’ dog. So they are all named or nicknamed after dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Any reader who is thinking that I could
potentially have used Lasse Viren as an answer is a person after my own heart.)
</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I
usually use a nine part connection as the last round, and this week all of them
were the names of Gladiators in the current revived series on BBC. Only one
team had a full house which surprised me a little.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-4252751869029513192024-03-11T09:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T09:30:18.698-07:00Mastermind 2024 Semi Final 4 Preview<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Phew. Only just made it since
there’s only a couple of hours</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">until
semi final four is shown. So what are tonight’s subjects, then?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The actor Peter Cushing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The History of Percussion
Instruments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Television series The
Sarah Jane Adventures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sir Bobby Robson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well, while there’s none of
them on the list promises to match my round on The Prose Edda, this does look
like a kinder than average set from my own point of view.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Peter Cushing. I ought to get
one or two I would have thought. I was quite a fan of his work for Hammer, for
example. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Percussion instruments – well,
okay, this is the least lijkely subject to bring me points. Even then, though,
it’s the kind of thing where general knowledge and good guessing might well
bring something.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Sarah Jane Adventures. Ten
years ago I set out to watch every (surviving) episode of every series of
Doctor Who, and review them. Ten books later I set out to do the spin off
series Torchwood and the SJA. So I have seen all of them and I have written
about all of them. Gotta be worth a least one or two, I reckon, and therefore
my banker subject of the night. (The books are titled Nothing New To Say About
Doctor Who and available on your kindle.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sir Bobby Robson again is not
a subject I necessarily know a huge amount about, but it should be enough to
net something. Taken altogether then an aggregate of less than five would be a
disappointment, and more than 10 would be a bit of a surprise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-24263506886720466342024-03-07T01:03:00.000-08:002024-03-07T01:04:35.794-08:00University Challenge 2024 Quarter Final Elimination - Open University v. Christ Church, Oxford<p><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Teams</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Open University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie Romans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Mike Holt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ann Gavaghan (Capt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">James Davidson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Christ Church Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Eliza Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Melika Gorgianeh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Oliver Wotton (Capt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Elliot Lowe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Sorry it has taken so long to get round to this review. Long
story. So, let’s cast a quick glance around this Last Chance Saloon, before taking
in the two teams joining us for a wee dram – only one of them would get out of
here alive. The stats seemed to favour the Open, but not by that much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Oliver Wotton was in extremely quickly with the Ionian
Islands for the first starter. You may remember that he scored a superb 9
starters in an earlier match against Southampton. Was this an omen that we were
going to see another such virtuoso performance on the buzzer? The answer earned
a set on French literary cycles – Baudelaire was allegedly an expert on the
Penny Farthing. 2 correct answers were given. You had to stick with the poetry
starter that followed. I didn’t recognise the lines quoted but as soon as Amol
announced the title, Annus Mirablilis (supply your own jokes, please) I knew it
was John Dryden. James Davidson opened the Open’s account with the same. The
first hint that this maybe was not going to be Open’s night came when they took
the first of a gettable set on musical styles, but missed out on two which really
and truly were old quiz chestnuts. Nobody knew the Science populariser JBS
Haldane – so he wasn’t a very popular populariser it seems. The moment the next
starter asked us for the name of an opera originally entitled Leonora, Elliot
Lowe buzzed straight in. To give the wrong answer. Again, I just make the point
because this is a real quiz chestnut because its Fidelio, Beethoven’s only
opera. Ann Gavaghan knew that Joseph Paxton designed the original Crystal
Palace for the next starter. The Open were unlucky to get a difficult set of
bonuses on language families and came away from the table with nowt, much like
my good self. The picture starter was a map showing the site and extent of a
notorious oil spillage. I was certain it had to be the Exxon Valdez. Oliver
Wotton took starter number 2 with the same. Christ Church are collectively too
young to have remembered the Torrey Canyon, but remembered the Deepwater
Horizon. An absolute masterpiece of mathematical gobbledygook allowed Melika
Gorgianeh in with the correct answer of geometric for the next starter. Two
correct answers meant that Christ Church led by 50 – 25 as we passed the
ten-minute mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">James Davidson knew that Thackeray had good things to say
about Brussels. Me? I won’t even eat them for Christmas dinner myself.
Mythological triads proved a tricky set and we both only got the one from Greek
Mythology. Now, come on. If you study English Literature the moment you hear
the name Saxo Grammaticus you should think Hamlet. So the country he wrote
about had to be Denmark. That one passed the teams by. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">None of us knew the chloralkali process, but Christ Church
lost five on it. A great early buzz from Oliver Wotton earned a third starter,
when he knew that the Geographical feature contained in many named of French
Departements are rivers. Three questions on Black Swan Theory – named after the
Natalie Portman film, I believe - brought just the one correct answer. Oh, for
the days of the First Aid in English, where innocent primary school kids had
the collective terms for animals and the name of their habitats pummelled into
their brains with no thought for relevance whatsoever! Neither team knew that a
holt is the home of an otter. There’s a water otter in my kitchen. It’s a
kettle, which makes the water ‘otter. I’m ere all week, ladies and gents. Don’t
applaud, just throw money. Ouch – I said money! The next starter asked for the
name of an artist. ‘Born in Crete “ was enough to give Ann Gavaghan El Greco. 1
bonus on geology brought the scores level. Game on. None of us knew the
composer of the opera we heard in the music starter, who was Massenet. Or put
it another way, who was Massenet? None of us knew Audre Lord or the next
starter either. Both teams sat on the buzzers a bit before Oliver Wotton took
his fourth starter knowing that Nassau is the national capital on New
Providence. This earned the music bonuses on pieces of music inspired by pieces
of French literature whose composers were unFrench. I thought Christ Church did
well to get two of them. Starter number five fell to Oliver Wotton as he knew
that Old Prussia was a member of the Baltic family of languages. The Christ
Church skipper, from Cardiff, smiled as Amol announced a set of bonuses on
Medieval Wales. Justifiably too since he took a full house. I love the first
question referencing Mervyn the Freckled. As epithets go that’s one that should
be used a lot more in conversation, I reckon. Starter number 7 followed in
pretty short order, as Christ Church’s Captain Fantastic supplied the answer
that whiskey stills are traditionally made from copper. One bonus on paintings
in the Manchester Art Gallery was enough to give Christ Church a lead of 155 –
55 at 20 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Game over? Not yet, but the Open’s collective eyes seemed
glassy, and their defence porous. The Wotton onslaught continued as he
identified 1975 as the year Bangladesh and others joined the UN, benefitting
from the Ken Bruce Statute (one year out is permissible). An Irish
mathematician saw Oliver Wotton give the cheeky answer of Joseph Grimaldi. To be
honest, this set meant I was fighting the sound of the Baby Elephant Walk
coursing through my head that I didn’t notice how Christ Church did with them.
Not so much questions as bloody good scores in Scrabble. The blessed relief of the
second picture starter saw Ellie Romans identify Apollo 11 Command Module pilot
Michael Collins. Other Hubbard Medal winners brought just one correct answer.
They needed more. Nobody knew the Hyades for the next starter. (I think
that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they were 6<sup>th</sup> in the 1977
Eurovision with their catchy tune, “Bim, bong, bing bammy bing.” They don’t
write ‘em like that any more.) Oliver Wotton took his 8<sup>th</sup> starter to
cap off an absolutely splendid personal performance knowing that the device on
the national flag of Portugal is an Armillary sphere. The Japanese playwright
Chikamatsu brought just the one correct answer, but it was all academic by this
stage. Christ Church were going to win, and all that remained in question was
how many points they were going to win by. Eliza Dean took her first starter
with No Exit, which was probably an adequate description of how The Open must
have felt by this point. The first chemical elements discovered through
spectroscopy only yielded one bonus, but the gap between the teams was almost
in triple figures now. Ann Gavaghan, still leading her team from the front,
knew that one of the events mentioned in the next starter occurred in 1989.
Ancient Athens brought a single bonus. The ever popular category of plate
tectonics saw neither team find the term moment. The next starter was on a
Shakespeare heroine and as soon as her brother Sebastian was mentioned Eliza
Dean won the buzzer race to answer Viola. German cities named after people did not
have enough time to yield more points before the contest was gonged. Christ
Church won by 170 to 75.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Open have had a bit of an up and down series, but the
fact that their average score going into this match was 210 speaks volumes
about their ability. They were just beaten by the better team on the day. I’ve
referenced Oliver Wotton’s performance throughout the review because it was so
decisive. He was the massive difference between the teams in this match. For
what it’s worth Open had a BCR of 28, while Christ Church had a BCR of 47.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol Watch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Nice to see you playing in the spirit of conviviality –
Amol praised both teams for applauding each other at the start before adding
rather ominously – let’s see if it lasts. To be fair, it did. He astutely
pointed out that Sebastian was the real giveaway in the Viola question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of
The Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Joseph Paxton not only designed the Crystal Palace, he was
also responsible for the Cavendish Banana, ancestor of the modern variety we
eat today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Baby Elephant Walk Moment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In mathematics if the arithmetic mean of a set of numbers
is calculated from the sum of their values, which adjective denotes a mean
defined as the nth root of the product of n numbers? The same adjective is
applied to sequences where the ratio between terms is constant and has a broad
meaning of relating to properties of shape and space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Need I say more? Dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-33589207533040151822024-03-05T08:55:00.000-08:002024-03-05T08:55:42.815-08:00Mastermind 2024 Semi Final 3<p> <b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Tale
of the Tape</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">14</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Oli Hanson</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">9</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">21</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, last
night saw us reach the halfway point in the semi finals. First into the chair
was Lisa Cowan. Lisa was 14<sup>th</sup> in my unofficial table of top scoring
winners from the heats. Back then she answered 10 questions correctly in her
specialist round. Last night she was having a pop at James Ist of Scotland. I
knew the first question but drew a blank on the rest of the round. We’ve
already seen in the first couple of matches that getting the highest score in
specialist won’t automatically bring you the win, but being more than a couple
of points behind can make things really difficult for you. So Lisa won’t have
been too unhappy with 9. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tom Adlam
was answering on the TV series “Breaking Bad”. Last time out he scored 11 on
specialist. Now, I never took a TV series as a specialist subject but it’s the
kind of subject that ought probably come with a government health warning.
There is just so much that you could be asked. So I reckon that Tom’s 7 was a
pretty decent lash, but it did mean that he was already two points behind with
two more contenders yet to come. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oli Hanson,
like Lisa Cowan, scored 21 in his first round heat. Back then he scored 9 on
specialist, but won on the strength of his general knowledge. Last night he was
answering on the world athletics championships from 2011 onwards. I added 4 to
my total to take the aggregate to 5, not having scored on Breaking Bad. Oli
knew his stuff, as you really must if you are to give yourself the best chance
of progressing, and his 11 points put himself into the lead, and Tom into
position of outsider, 4 points behind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally
Julie Ashcroft. In the heats Julie put on one of the best performances, scoring
12 on specialist and 14 on GK. Last night her topic was Mary Shelley, and sadly
there were a few answers that seemed to make it to the tip of her tongue but no
further. She finished with a respectable 7 but looked out of it at 4 points off
the lead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tom was
first back to the chair. He scored 11 in the heats but I have to say that his
round in this semi seemed much better. He scored 13 to set the bar at 20, and
really ‘coulda been a contender’ with a different specialist. As it was, with
this being a semi final I didn’t think that his score was going to quite be
enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maybe not,
but it was certainly good enough to stay in the lead after Julie’s GK round had
finished. Julie scored an excellent 14 in the heats. Last night though she
could only manage 9. I say only. 9 is a good score, but not enough to come
close to the lead. My guess is that the heat GK round was a round where most
things went right, and last night’s a round when too many things didn’t. We’ve
all had them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lisa Cowan
looked the most likely candidate to take the win away from Oli. Maybe she might
have but oh, she had one of those rounds. You get one wrong answer, and then they
start piling up. It’s a horrible feeling and there’s nowt you can do about it.
Lisa ended with 13.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which left
Oli. The path through the gateway to the final beckoned, and although it looked
relatively short and hurdle free he still needed 9 and no more than 3 passes to
do it. And I fancy he might look back on a couple of sticky moments in the
middle of the round with relief, since he managed to pull himself out of it,
keep finding the answers, and win with a little bit of daylight between himself
and Tom. Oli scored 12 for 23. Well played, and as always, best of luck in the
grand final. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Details<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lisa Cowan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">King James I of Scotland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tom Adlam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The TV Series Breaking Bad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Oli Hanson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">World Athletics Championships 2011 to the Present
Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julie Ashcroft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mary Shelley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-47308066360463913772024-03-03T06:05:00.000-08:002024-03-03T06:05:34.704-08:00Mastermind 2024 Semi Final 3 Preview<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yes, peeps, it’s preview time again. In tomorrow night’s
third Mastermind semi final the subjects will be:-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">James I of Scotland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The TV Series Breaking Bad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">World Athletics Championships from 2011 to the present day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Life of Mary Shelley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here’s my feelings. When there’s kings and queens involved
I can usually get a point or two. However specifically Kings of (just) Scotland
is more tricky. Maybe I can scrape a point. Then again, maybe not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I did watch the first three or four episodes of Breaking
Bad a few years ago, but I just didn’t continue to hold my interest and I gave
it up as a bad job. Will that be enough to scrape a point? Again, it’s not
impossible, but it’s not very likely either.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">World Athletics Championships 2011 to the Present Day.
Well, all I can say is that I think we can expect the need for really in depth
knowledge when dealing with a round on such a short time period. Which is a bit
of a shame since I love track and field but I’m not sure that I have the kind
of in depth knowledge required to even get close to my score on the Prose Edda
last week. Nevertheless, this is my banker subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For the first week in a long time, I don’t feel like there’s
any one subject where I absolutely have no hope at all of scoring, since I know
a bit about Mary Shelley. Not enough for more than a point or two, but still enough
to bring me one or two I hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anything approaching 7 would no be a bad return for me in
aggregate, I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-44942515509709836142024-03-03T05:52:00.000-08:002024-03-03T05:52:08.404-08:00Serving up a Steaming Load of Arsenal<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since returning to the rugby club quiz in 2021 I’ve said
that I’m not really interested in setting the quiz on a regular basis any more,
but I will do it now and again if I’m asked to. Well, I got hoist with my own
petard when Dai N. asked me to do the quiz this coming Thursday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s done now, just needs printing. I think it’s alright.
But I must admit that I was a little bit tempted to mess around a bit. Back in
the nineties when I started compiling the quiz, I was always on the lookout for
a new gimmick I could introduce. Few of them worked out and were reused. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well, when I sat down to start compiling this one a rather
stupid idea came to me. You see, Jess, and some of the kids at school have said
that some times I come out with something silly and because it’s delivered with
conviction and I have the reputation of being a know-all they don’t know if
it’s true or if I’m joking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of the
kids say far worse things about me than that, however we all have our crosses to
bear. So I did think about putting at least one deliberate wrong ‘un in each
round, such as “Which Hollywood star also invented the pop-up toaster? Answer –
Clark Gable. Which of course is a steaming load of Arsenal since it was a guy called
Chares Perkins Strite. Then I thought at the end of each round I could ask them
for the 10<sup>th</sup> question to say which question in the round was bogus. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No, I didn’t do it. I’ve got enough of a reputation for
being a smartarse at the quiz as it is anyway, a reputation I only enhanced on
Thursday by telling the QM that what he called and oviposter is actually
pronounced ovipositor, and that Beowulf in fact defeated three monsters, rather
than just the one. That second one does not reflect that well on me since I knew
damn well that the answer he would want was Grendel, but dash it all, sir, I didn’t
go through all the difficulty or translating that whole poem from Anglo Saxon
into modern English at university to have it misrepresented in that way! For the record,
after he defeated Grendel, Grendel’s mum came up out of the mire looking for
revenge, so Beowulf dived into the mire and sent her to the same place he'd sent
her son, and then at the end of the poem Beowulf, who is now old, has inherited
the kingdom of the Geats, which is threatened by a dragon. Incidentally Tolkein’s
Smaug is taken directly from this same dragon. Beowulf, deserted by all of his
men save a young shaver called Wiglaf, defeats the dragon but is mortally
wounded in the process. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Have a good week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-60830530875673432402024-02-29T09:02:00.000-08:002024-02-29T09:02:12.135-08:00Pizza? Are you effing kidding me?!<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You may remember a rather intemperate post I made some time
ago about the league in the Gwyn Hall monthly film quiz. Basically we built up
our expectations through the year, religiously checking how each result might
affect the overall table. Then, come the December quiz and the grand finale of
the league, we were fobbed off with the news that no announcement about the
league would be made on the night, but it would be put on Facebook before the
next quiz in January. It wasn’t. Still, we turned up to January’s quiz, maybe
not full of expectation, only to be told that the grand prize for each of the
winning team was going to be a T shirt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yes, I was underwhelmed. The stupid thing was, if they had
announced that there would be no prize for the league when it started, then I
wouldn’t have been disappointed. T-shirt? Meh. Then I was told earlier in the
week that we are not in fact going to be given T Shirts. No. Instead the grand
prize for winning the league will be . . . a pizza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My reaction when I heard this was more – are you effing
kidding me? – than – oh, well, that makes the League all worthwhile, then. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, last night was the February quiz. Now, on 19<sup>th</sup>
February I returned to work after half term which had been preceded by three
weeks off with stress, anxiety and depression, which, incidentally, is also the
name of the legal firm I used when I took out my mortgage. On my first day back
I was told to pi** off, to f**k off and shoved out of the way by a pupil trying
to invade my classroom. Those are just the most serious incidents. So I’ve been
coming home knackered. That’s not the problem. I’ve been going into work
knackered as well, dreading what some of these kids might put me through. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So come last night I just could not shake myself to attend.
Just couldn’t. This despite the fact that it was about one of my better
categories – Sci fi. I’ll find out how the guys got on when I see them tonight.
It was just as well I didn’t go, because the way I was feeling I might have
told the organisers to shove their pizza right where the sun don’t shine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-2283196165233546722024-02-27T08:08:00.000-08:002024-02-27T08:08:27.331-08:00University Challenge 2024 - Quarter final qualification match: Trinity, Cambridge v. UCL<p><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Teams</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Trinity. Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sarah Henderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Agnijo Banerjee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ryan Joonsuk Kang (Capt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jeremi Jaksina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">UCL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">James Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ali Izzatdust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tayana Sawh (Capt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jacob Finlay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How are we, then? So, last night we saw another quarter
final qualification match, this time between Trinity and UCL who both won their
first quarter final matches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Normally I never get any questi9ons about Greek letters in
Science and Maths, but after a number of given uses for it were given, I knew
that the letter Mu is used for the SI prefix micro. Dunno how I knew it, but it
was good enough for me and I set off on my ap of honour. James Hall came in too
early with lambda and lost five which left the Trinity skipper to snap up that
unconsidered trifle. The government’s tentative list of proposed new UK UNESCO
World Heritage Sites brought two out of three bonuses. A very quick buzz from
Jeremi Jaksina identified assassinated poet and playwright Lorca. Films whose
titles contain the full name of a character brought the disarming comment from
Mr. Kang – pffft – we’re not going to get this right – but we did both get
Casper Hauser, the last one right. None of us knew the Growing Block Theory
about time for the next starter, but Trinity lost five for an early incorrect
buzz. Nucleophilic substitution sounds completely disgusting, but it was the
answer to the chemistry starter that followed and Ryan Joonsuk Kang, playing a
captain’s innings, supplied it. One bonus on genetics followed. So to the
picture round, showing a relief map of China with an arrow pointing to a city’s
location. I took a bit of a punt with Nanjing, and was right to do so. That man
Kang had it. Three other treaty ports from the Treaty of Nanking brought a
single bonus. As we approached the ten minute mark, Trinity led by 60 to -5 and
UCL could give thanks that Trinity weren’t quite firing on all cylinders with
the bonuses yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol encouraged UCL, reminding them that they had plenty of
time to get going.Well, no. They had plenty of time to come back, but they
needed to get going very, very soon in order to do so. Jeremi Jaksina came in
too early for the next starter and lost 5, but none of us knew mise en abyme so
that shot at an open goal went wide of the posts. Jeremi Jaksina knew about the
Unification Day of Bulgaria for the next starter. Works in the Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour brought one correct answer. Ali Izzatdust did
the right thing by buzzing early for the next starter, but sadly could not
quite summon the correct answer. Given the whole question Agnijo Banerjee
buzzed in with the correct answer of Sir Francis Bacon. A full house on
anarchists took them to 95 points, 105 ahead of UCL. Finally Ali Izzatdust
found his buzzer range to come in early with the British social anthropologist
Evans-Pritchard. Who was also a character in Under Milk Wood, surely? Two
bonuses on garden biodiversity narrowed the gap further. This brought us to the
music starter. Jacob Finlay recognised the vocal talents of Kendrick Lamar. The
bonuses were three jazz artists who played on one of his albums. None of us had
any of them. Well, at least UCL were moving now as James Hall buzzed in on the
next starter to identify the Uralic Mountain range. We both took a full house
on Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato. Right – a question beginning Sir Stamford Rffles
founded which – is fraught with danger. Ali Izzatdust zigged with Singapore.
Nope. Which meant it had to be London Zoo. Ah, but the question asked for the
organisation with the initials ZSL. Sarah Henderson tried London Zoo, but it
was the Zoological Society of London that was required. A bit of a let off for
UCL. Ali Izzatdust buzzed in on the Superbike world championship with Marquez,
to earn bonuses on Chinese mythology. 2 correct answers followed. James Hall
came in too early without an answer to the next starter. Given the whole
question Jeremi Jaksina recognised a description of surrealism. Or do I mean a
fish? A full house on Japanese culinary terms undermined a lot of the good work
that UCL had been doing. However James Hall took the next starter with osprey. Holidays
and celtic festivals brought two correct answers. So just after the 20 minute
mark Trinity still held a useful lead of 120 to 75. But UCL were starting to
come back. . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">James Hall knew that Wordsworth wrote the Prelude. Some stuff
about saccharides meant nowt to me, but kept the UCL bandwagon rolling. So to
the picture starter. Now, if it’s a Shakespeare play with a young woman with
bandaged hands and blood all round her mush, a pound to a penny it will be
Titus Andronicus, the play that proves that even a genius could write a turkey.
James Hall took that one. Photos of productions of Shakespeare’s Roman plays brought
a timely full house, and voila! The scores were tied. However it was UCL who
had the momentum. Mind you they weren’t anything like home and dry. Asked about
the post held by Eamonn de Valera and others, Jacob Finlay offered the
Taoiseach. Close but no cigar. It allowed Jeremi Jaksina in with the President
of the Republic of Ireland – not the Taoiseach. Trinity only managed the one on
Japanese and British Monarchs whose reigns coincided. Jacob Finlay made up for
losing five on the previous starter by taking the next with the film Triangle
of Sadness. I thought that was a 1980s BBC soap opera but there you go. Two
bonuses on Mountain ranges levelled the scores again. Another good buzz from
Jacob Finlay took the next starter on iron. Any old iron? Gawd knows. Christopher
Wheeldon provided just the one bonus, but the collective UCL nose was in front
now for the first time in the match. Ali Izzatdust almost jumped out of his
seat buzzing for the next starter, but it fell to James Hall, who knew the
islands of Estonia (which country’s capital is close to the top of my bucket
list now). Place names in Roman Britain brought just one bonus, but crucially
it gave UCL a 30 point lead which meant that Trinity would need at least two
visits to the table. Well, Agnijo Banerjee won them one with the term genus.They
took the first two bonuses on ancient civilisations, but the contest was gonged
before the third. UCL won by 165 – 150.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol hit the nail on the head when he called this a great
contest. I don’t know what the biggest comeback in UC history was, but this has
to be one of the best. For the record, Trinity had a BCR of 54%, while UCL’s
was 60%. I certainly won’t be betting against Trinity taking their own place in
the semis in their next match. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol Watch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fair play to Amol, he took mateyness to new heights in this
show. Dear old Bamber , if I recall correctly, was always on second name terms
with the team members. JP was often not even on that, but certainly never first
name terms. When Ali Izzatdust buzzed too early on the Bacon question, Amol
went on to commiserate, “Bad luck, I’m sure you knew the answer, Ali.” Well,
this is the 21<sup>st</sup> century after all. Will we eventually see nicknames
being used to address the students? I look forward to Roger Tilling announcing
“Keble – Jimbo “ in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of
The Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This was one of those rare occasions when none of the many
things I didn’t already know particularly grabbed me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Baby Elephant Walk Moment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First a disaccharide consisting of two glucose molecules connected
by an alpha linkage. It is a product of starch breakdown by amylases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By normal standards that’s short, but it’s still pretty
deadly. Dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-67541807147145453272024-02-27T08:05:00.000-08:002024-02-27T08:05:28.883-08:00Mastermind 2024: Semi Final 2<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Tale of the Tape</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hello, and welcome. Last night saw the second of our
Mastermind 2024 semi finals. All of our contenders managed double figure GK
scores in the heats, and 3 of them managed at least a dozen in their
specialists, so the result was not by any means a foregone conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First to the chair was Rob Jones. Rob was sixth on my
unofficial table of contenders based on the first round. Last night he was
answering on the Cheltenham Gold Cup from 1960 until the present day. I never
did a preview of this show for one reason and another, but if I had I would
have said this was a subject where I might scrape 1 or 2. As it was I scored 1
on Norton’s Coin’s starting price. I actually met the horse once – Sirrel
Griffiths, his trainer was based in Nantgaredig, and knew Mary’s 4<sup>th</sup>
stepfather (I think my mother in law has a thing about wedding cake). Rob did
well and took his score into double figures which gave him at least a chance in
the GK round.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sharon Reading was, according to my unofficial trainer, the
outsider in the field. She scored 7 points on specialist in her first round
heat. That’s respectable, but the semi final can be a whole different ball
game. So although she managed a respectable 7 again, this time on the films of
Sir Ridley Scott, she must have known in her heart of hearts that she was out
of the running to all intents and purposes as she returned to her chair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stephen Dodding, well, Stephen was the top of my unofficial
table of first round performances. In the heats he had scored an excellent 12
on specialist and if he could get there or thereabouts he’d be in with an
excellent shout in the GK, having scored 17 in the heats. He didn’t quite
manage 12 but he scored an excellent 11 on the band Genesis from 1967 – 1977.
I’d scored two on the films of Ridley Scott, and I added another three on this
to take the aggregate to 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which only left George Twigg, who was answering on the
Prose Edda. George was 8<sup>th</sup> on my unofficial first round table, where
he’d scored a brilliant 13 on Specialist. Well, he didn’t quite match that, but
he did the next best thing and scored 12 to take the lead. I’m not even sure if
I would have made this my banker subject had I made a prediction. The fact if
though that I studied Old Icelandic as part of my English degree, and I’ve
always loved the work of Snorri Sturluson in general, and the Prose Edda in
particular. So to cut a long story short I answered 9 of these, which I believe
is my highest specialist score of the series, to give me a whopping 15 as
aggregate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So essentially there three runners left who were contending
the win. Before any of them got the chance for a run at the tape, though,
Sharon returned to the chair. I’m glad she gave it a good old lash, too. She
scored 10, another double figure GK score, and could walk away knowing that she
is a Mastermind semi finalist, and managed a respectable 17 .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rob Jones was next to return to the chair. Rob must have
known that he had to go hell for leather, set the highest score that he could
and hope to hang on to the top slot until the end of the show. He did a pretty
good job, too. He added 11 to his score, and importantly he did not incur any
passes either, and this set the target at 21 and no passes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stephen had provided the finest GK round of the whole of
the first round heats and I wouldn’t have been surprised to see him repeat this
in his GK round last night. Right, you may have had this experience yourselves
at some time. Occasionally, while you’re watching the show, you’ll see what you
might think of as a rogue round. A round where two or three stinkers appear at
intervals and stop you in your tracks. This is all in the eye of the beholder,
but let me just put it this way. If I had been sitting in Stephen’s chair I
wouldn’t have wanted to face this GK round. As I said, it's all relative. Any
you don’t know are hard and any you do know are easy. Stephen’s chances
dwindled as the round progressed and he finished with 9 for 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which meant it was a two horse race between George Twigg
and Rob. George needed 9 and no passes to tie with Rob. He got them. Then he
added another 4 correct answers to completely seal the deal. It was the best GK
round of the night and gave him a clear win with 25 and no passes. It really
was a good round, and he deserved his place in the final. In his piece to
camera he said that he thought he was capable of better then the GK round in
his heat. He certainly proved that! Well done, sir, and the very best of luck
in the Grand Final.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Details<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rob Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Cheltenham Gold
Cup 1960 - Present<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sharon Reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Films of Sir Ridley
Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Stephen Dodding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Genesis 1967 - 1977<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">George Twigg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Prose Edda<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">25<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-58323408335780975402024-02-20T10:39:00.000-08:002024-02-20T10:39:26.764-08:00University Challenge 2024 Quarter Final Elimination Match : Sheffield v. Birkbeck, London<p><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Teams</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Birkbeck, London<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Danny McMillan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Olivia Mariner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Samir Chadha (Capt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Margherita Huntley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sheffield<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Safiyyah Rujack<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Joseph McGough<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cameron Colclough (Capt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matthew Nail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only last week we saw Imperial beat Manchester to take the
first rightful place in the semis. This week the two teams they had both
defeated in their first quarter final match duelled it out to see which would
remain in the competition for at least one more match.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Poor Matthew Nail fell into the trap on the first question,
knowing Michael Jackson’s Bad, but not waiting for the whole of the question.
It was worth waiting for too since it combined il buono, il brutto e it cattivo
– or the Good, the Bad and Eli Wallach in old money. Danny McMillan opened the
Birkbeck account with that one. They took a full house with the names of
Japanese dishes. Samir Chadha ed the charge on the next starter identifying
that the things alluded to in the question all begin with Neo. I’d like to
think that ‘fromthematrix’ was one of them. They took two out of a set on domes.
The next was that articular type of UC starter where you have to hold your
nerve, wait for it, wait for it, then as soon as it becomes blindingly obvious
reach for your shooting irons. Matthew Nail was first in to identify the Island
of Zanzibar after Tanganyika was mentioned. A full house on medicine saw me
grab a sneaky lap of honour for knowing Endocrine glands.Shelagh Delaney and
John Osbourne saw me shouting “Kitchen Sink Drama!” at the telly. Margherita Huntley
didn’t shout, but gave the same answer. UNESCO world heritage sites in
southeast asia brought just one answer. So to the picture round, and the titles
of a writer’s work in the language in which they were originally published. La
Peste said Camus to me, which was just as well since that was the answer, as Danny
McMillan could confirm. Tow bonuses on more titles of works in the language in
which they were published were taken. Eros and Eris, the celestial objects
required for the next starter, were provided by Joseph McGough. The Parliament
Act of 1911 only provided Sheffield with 1 bonus, which meant that Birkbeck led
by 80 – 30 atfer the ten-minute mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matthew Nail pulled ten points back through knowing the
Copernican thingummybob. Composers of video game music provided a welcome full
house and took a sizeable chunk from the lead. Safiyyah Rujak took another 10
points back, knowing William B. Hays, the first president of Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors of America. Bonuses on African countries brought two
correct answers and Sheffield now had their collective nose in front. Nobody
recognised a Shostakovitch string quartet for the music starter. A somewhat
long-winded starter gave Joseph McGough another starter with Samoa. This earned
Sheffield the music bonuses. It didn’t do them much good as none of us knew the
composers of three post 1960 string quartets. My default answer for a Japanese
film is The Seven Samurai and this paid off for me and for Danny McMillan with
the next starter. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance brought the two bonuses
that Birkbeck needed to take a five point lead. Margherita Huntley knew the
Somerset Levels for the next starter. Terms in cell biology promised some baby
elephant walk business, but none of them were quite long or convoluted enough. For
the next starter, if you’re asked for a French Monarch you’ll be right often
enough if you hit and hope and say Louis XIV. It was right this time. It added
to Danny McMillan’s personal tally and brought up bonuses on Eastern towns and
cities of the UK with teams in the Speedway Great Britain Premiership. Two
correct answers meant that Birkbeck were pulling away just approaching the
20-minute mark. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Danny McMillan kept up his form on the buzzer knowing
various definitions that all pointed the way towards norm. Fela Kuti provided
two correct answers, and the Birkbeck lead of 65 points was starting to look
decisive. For the second picture starter we were shown a rather startling photo
of a keta salmon. Nobody knew it. The next starter was rather obviously looking
for Maryland, but the buzzer race didn’t start for surprisingly long, when it
was won by Cameron Colclough. The bonuses involved a game of name that fish.Good
answers brought two bonuses. Various definitions of the word ‘sink’ fell to
Safiyyah Rujak. Works from 1905 yielded little, and the clock was running down
all the time. Especially considering that Samid Chadha came in early and took
the next starter on Aaron Swartz. Two correct answers on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the mythological figures upon whom characters
in American Gods were based. Again, the next starter saw nifty buzzer work from
Danny McMillan who knew a reference to Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit when he
heard one. Joost Van Den Vondel provided the kind of bonuses where you didn’t
have to know about him, because a little general knowledge could bring you a
full house as it did for Birkbeck. Joseph McGough knew that any book with
Mycologia in the title is probably about fungi. They managed to correctly
answer 2 bonuses, but it was looking as if this was going to be too little at
this stage of the game. None of us knew Watch Night. Safiyyah Rujak knew
polyester for the next to earn bonuses on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the periodic table. We both only managed the one on magnesium. And
essentially, that was that. The gong sounded halfway through the next starter
which was surely asking for cherries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So farewell, then, Sheffield. No shame in going out in the
quarter finals. They had a useful BCR of 56%. As for Birkbeck, well they’ll
have another chance to qualify next time out, although I do think that if they
have to face Manchester they may have their work cut out for them. If they can
repeat this week’s BCR of 79% it really won’t do their chances any harm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol Watch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Your say somebody German is no tactic at all!” joshed Amol
as Birkbeck considered possibilities for the first picture bonuses. Well,
actually, it kind of is. If you know the works were first published in German,
then saying someone German is clearly a better tactic than saying someone who
isn’t German, I would have thought. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interesting Fact that I Didn’t Already Know of
the Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The word endorphin is partly derived from Morpheus, the
Greek God of Dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Baby Elephant Walk Moment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which family of polymers are formed by the reaction of a
dicarboxylic acid with a diol producing water as a by-product? They are widely
used in synthetic rubbers, plastic bottles and clothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By no means the worst we’ve heard all series, but this was
a dum dum -lite contest. Dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-18095251923820077432024-02-20T10:36:00.000-08:002024-02-20T10:36:27.763-08:00Mastermind 2024 Semi Final 1<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Tale Of The Tape</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">13</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">20</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yes, it’s semi-final time again, peeps. If we look at the
table above we can see that Jane Hill put on the best performance in her first
round heat with an excellent 14 on GK being especially worthy of note. All of
last night’s contenders had scored at least 11 on GK first time out, so no
duffers there. Worth noting was Richard Brooks’ 13 on GK – he’d come back after
scoring 7 on Specialist. If he could improve on this, then he’d be in the
reckoning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First up was Rashid Mumtaz. A few weeks ago we saw him
looking very dapper while giving us an excellent round on the Godfather trilogy
of films. Last night he was answering on my banker subject, Charlie Chaplin. He
didn’t do badly, either, with 6 points to my five. Not badly, but one sensed
not well enough to give him a realistic shot at the win. For the record I had
4, but just couldn’t dredge up any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Richard Brooks had been marked down as one of the drak
horses to watch after I saw him come back from 4<sup>th</sup> to win last
week’s last heat in a dramatic tie-break. Then he was answering on Winnie the
Pooh and AA Milne, and he scored 7. This time he was answering on Sydney
Harbour Bridge and did so really well. 11 points and no passes! I added two to
my aggregate and I couldn’t realistically have scored any higher because I
didn’t know any of the other answers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sarah Thornton scored an excellent 12 in her heat on
Specialist. Then she was answering on the Chcolat Novels of Joanne Harris. Now
she was answering on the TV Drama Series Happy Valley – and she scored 12
again. It’s a huge skill being able to maintain your performance in a second (and
sometimes a third) specialist subject. No, I’ve never watched it and so I added
nothing to my aggregate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Billie Jean King has always struck me as an admirable human
being and so she was a worthy choice for Jane Hill’s semi final subject. Jane
was 5<sup>th</sup> on our unofficial first round table with an especially
noteworthy 14 on GK. Well, that round was a little way off yet. Instead Jane
powered through to 11 on BJK. This put her just one point behind Sarah
alongside Richard on 11. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With the best will in the world, It looked unlikely that
Rachid could put in a good enough GK round to set the kind of high score needed
to force the other three to traverse the corridor of doubt. In the heats he
scored a good 11 and he came close to this again, finishing with 10 to set the
target at 16.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Next into the chair was Richard Brooks. I hope I have made
clear how good I felt his GK round was last time out. Well, he almost matched
his score of 13 this time too, finishing just short on 12 for 23. As he walked
back from the chair he must have had the satisfaction of knowing that an okay
round would not be enough to beat him. The bank would only be paying out for 12s
and over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And 12, to be fair, is exactly what Jane Hill gave us. But
oh, there was a pass in there. It looked from her face as Clive gave the score
that she realised what this meant. On pass countback, Richard was the leader on
the road, with only Sarah Thornton to go.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If she was feeling the pressure, Sarah didn’t show it. She
had scored 11 in her heat on GK. If she could repeat this with no passes then
we’d have a tiebreak. Well, she didn’t repeat it. She exceeded it, and exceeded
it well with an excellent 14. This gave her a winning total of 26, through the
highest score of the specialist round, and the highest score on the GK.Very
well done, and I wish you the best of luck in the grand final.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Details<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rashid Mumtaz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Charlie Chaplin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Richard Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sydney Harbour Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sarah Thornton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Happy Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">26<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jane Hill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Billie Jean King<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-26130702822247214422024-02-18T08:14:00.000-08:002024-02-18T08:14:11.754-08:00Mastermind 2024 Semi Final 1 Preview<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Right, tomorrow’s semi final subjects are</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Charlie Chaplin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sydney Harbour Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The TV drama series Happy Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Billie Jean King<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m not sure who the four contenders will be, but we’ll
deal with the racing form when I get to my review. So looking at the subjects:-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My banker subject is probably Charlie Chaplin. I’ve read
his autobiography and several biographies of a man that I find fascinating. I’b
be sad if I couldn’t get three or four points here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mind you, I do also have a thing about bridges. Love ‘em.
No for nothing was my grand final subject the History of London Bridge. I don’t
know anything like so much about Sydney Harbour Bridge but I hope I do know
enough to get a couple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Happy Valley? Sorry – same old story. Ever watched it and
so expect nothing. Any poins would be a bonus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Billie Jea King. Again, It’s the kind of iconic sportsperson
(and person) round that leads me to hope that I know enough to get one or maybe
2. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-43437574276673156942024-02-18T08:03:00.000-08:002024-02-18T08:03:59.214-08:00Mastermind 2024 Heat winners stats<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Shall we have a look at the semi finalists for Mastermind
2024, then? Why on Earth not?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Name<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Specialist </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Score</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Specialist </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Passes</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>GK Score<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>GK Passes<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Total Score<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Total Passes<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Tie break</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Stephen Dodding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">17<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">29<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Peter Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">15<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">27<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ruth Hart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">14<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">26<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Juie Ashcroft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">14<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">26<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jane Hill <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">14<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">25<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rob Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">24<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sharon Chambers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">8<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">16<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">24<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">George Twigg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">23<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sadie de Souza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">23</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sarah Thornton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">23<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rashid Mumtaz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">22<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Paul Judge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">22<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tom Adlam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">22<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lisa Cowan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">21<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Helen Lippell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">21<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oli Hanson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">21<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Caryn Ellis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">21<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ben Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">8<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Richard
Brooks<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tom Moody<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">2<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Scott Torrance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">6<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">19<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sharon Reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">19<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Elliot Hooson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">19<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Okay, so let’s get the usual observation out of the way.
Thomas Nelson in heat 3 and Dan Hudson scored 26 in their first round heats.
They had the misfortune to feature in the heats won respectively by the second
highest scorer of the first rund, and the highest scorer of the first round. It’s
hard. Yeah, I know that this is the reality of knockout play, the luck of the
draw, but it’s not a lot of consolation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Have a good look at the table, but please accept that this
is only going to give indicators about who might do well in the semis. If you
scored fourteen or higher on GK it’s reasonable to expect that you’ll be
capable of getting another good score on it in the semis. But was that GK round
the best you were going to do in the heat? In which case, if you get a set that
doesn’t suit you as well, and someone else gets a much better set for
themselves than they had in the heat, that could be your seeming advantage
gone. Likewise, we always see some people do quite a bit worse on their
specialist subject than they did in the heat, and some people do quite a bit
better. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s not ignore the fact that the production team does not
seem to practise seeding, paying much more attention to the combinations of
subjects in each show tha the combinations of contenders, so it’s not uncommon
to see 1 or 2 top heavy semis containing more than one of the highest performers
from the first round. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The only prediction I feel comfortable making is that it’s
unlikely that the top 6 contenders on this table will be the 6 finalists. Who these
will be, well, you pays your money and takes your pick. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-43113475984783345152024-02-18T07:17:00.000-08:002024-02-18T07:17:11.703-08:00University Challenge 2024 - Quarter Final Qualification - Manchester v. Imperial College, London<p><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Teams</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bluma De Los Reyes-White<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ilya Kullman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hiru Senehedheera (Capt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dan Grady<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Imperial College London<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Justin Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Adam Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Saraya Haddid (Capt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sourajit Debnath<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You know, there are some teams that progress as far as the
quarters who you never in your heart of hearts feel that they could be
potential finalists, then there are others who you feel could. Last year I had
that feeling watching the very first match of round 1 and indeed both teams
involved came back together to contest the final. Last Monday matched two teams
I’ve had my eye on like this – Manchester and Imperial, both institutions being
series winners in recent memory. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve just come back from Bucharest so screamed ‘Wallachia’
at the first starter asking which principality united with Moldavia in the 19<sup>th</sup>
century. The Union of South Africa – that’s the polity and not the preserved LNER
Gresley A4 pacific, sadly – brought just one for Imperial. Bluma De Los
Reyes-White knew apoptosis for the next starter to open the Manchester account.
Films wih scores by ick Cave and Warren Ellis saw me surprise myself by knowing
the 2022 film Blonde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew “The Road”
having read the book. Manchester had both of those and the other for a full
house. My first baby elephant walk moment of the contest came not through the
physical sciences but psychology. Nobody knew the dual purpose model. (My
Airfix Lancaster bomber was one of those.) Right, be honest, did many of you
shouted “Forbidden Planet!” immediately after hearing the names “Louis and Bebe
Barron.” Sorry, but I just love that film so much so that I’ve watched it so
many times I’m even familiar with the credits. Fair play to Dan Grady, he got
it from the full question. I also enjoy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“This Island Earth” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still” amongst other
contemporary films of the genre, but not as much as “Forbidden Planet.” This
earned bonuses on Shane Warne. Look, you don’t need to be a huge cricket fan to
know that it was Mike Gatting who was out to the ‘wonder ball’, but Manchester
didn’t. I surprised myself getting a full house, but at least Manchester knew
Muttiah Muralitharan passed Warne’s world record wicket total. I will be
honest, I didn’t get the literary starter that followed asking for the colour
yellow any more than either team did. Mr. Reliable – Sourajit Debnath –
recognised different uses of the Greek letter epsilon in Maths and Science for
his first starter of the contest. Scientists whose surnames all began with Z –
brought just the one correct answer. Surprisingly they opted for Milgram for
the last one when Zimbardo was already on the table. Pressure of the studio
makes you do funny things sometimes. The picture starter showed us a diagram of
the starting line-ups of the Brazilian and Italian teams in the 1970 FIFA world
cup final. Neither team got it. I guess they’re too young for the names
Jairzinho, Rivelino and Carlos Alberto to mean that much to them. Ilya Kullman
knew that Desi Bouterse ruled Suriname on a couple of occasions –not bad
considering he was once married to Lucille Ball. This earned the football
picture bonuses. They took two but zigged with 86 for the second when they
should have zagged with 90. Same teams, but not all the same players. All the
same, Manchester had the whip hand by the ten-minute mark leading by 60 – 25.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Adam Jones, rather quiet up to this point, responded to
Amol’s encouragement by buzzing in with “Game of Life”. We’ve had something
about this in the past, so I wasn’t quite so completely baffled as I was last
time. Jacques Derrida did nothing for Imperial. None of us knew that the
punkiest tit is the crested tit. Well, quite. (The school in which I teach has
a very large nesting colony of Annoyinglittle Tits. Yes, old joke, I know.)
Various locations pointing to Sir Caerfyrddin – Carmarthenshire to you, sir –
didn’t point clearly enough for either of the teams. Justin Lee knew that
Benfica stole the name Stadium of Light from Sunderland FC – kidding – and he
went on to deliver a full house on Samguk Yusa, a work of Mythology among the
people of Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next starter on the
periodic table was pure lap of honour fodder, especially after it asked for the
element named after the titan who stole fire from the Heavens. Crested titan? Hiru
Senehedheera snapped up that one earning Manchester a set of bonuses on Ischia.
Gesundheit. Both of us only managed one for the Talented Mr. Ripley. So to the
music starter, and Gil Scott-Heron. Adam Jones earned Amol’s approval for
snapping that one up quickly. Bonuses were three spoken word artists that none
of us knew. Neither team had Bell Hooks for the next starter. Classical musical
works all featuring the word Butterfly fell to Adam Jones, whose buzzer finger
seemed to be nicely warmed up now. Bonuses on some Maths stuff were enough to
put Imperial into the lead, so it seems as if Amol had switched his jedi powers
back on for the show. Hiru Senehedheera wiped out the lead by taking the next
starter on wave function. I thought that was either as a greeting, or a
response to a greeting. Or to help you go surfing. The penguin hundred best
sort stories ever written gave Manchester a full house, with Dan Grady doing
much of the heavy lifting. Nobody knew that Feste’s song in Twelfth Night was ‘What
is Love?’ – Howard Jones did a cover version of it in the eighties. Ilya
Kullman knew that the three colours of the Madagascan flag are green white and
red, but he rearranged them into the wrong tricolour with Bulgaria , which has
horizontal stripes, allowing Justin Lee in with Italy. Pragmatic sanctions in
European history promised but little. Imperial did well to take a full house.
Justin Lee knew that if Japan defeated the USA in the final of a world
championship then it was probably baseball, and took the next starter in short
order with it. Only one bonus was taken on British architecture. Still it meant
that Imperial were a full set ahead by 125 – 100 as we passed the 20-minute
mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Neither team recognised the man I’d like to think that
Ronald Reagan probably called Leech Weltzer – Lech Walesa to you and me. Justin
Lee widened the gap between the teams, recognising that the poet Hadrawi hailed
from Somalia. Three more leaders of anti-Soviet campaigns brought five more
points. Now Amol issued encouragement to Manchester. Was lightning going to
strike twice in the same show? Maybe not because Sourajit Debnath took the next
mathematical starter on orientable shapes. Two correct answers on a set of
bonuses about bridge designs mean that the Imperial lead stretched to 60. Given
the names of five people Justin Lee – who was really turbo charging his team on
starters at the moment – knew that the only decade where they all lived at the
same time was the 1820s. They only managed one of a gettable set on Cadian
Provinces and capitals, but that’s something you can afford when you have the afterburners
on and you’re speeding towards the event horizon. Saraya Haddad took her first
starter with the Earthshot Prize. Common scientific terms coined by Berselius
must have been very common indeed because I got a full house on them, while Imperial
took 2 being close but not quite close enough with the other. I don’t know
about Tollens Reagent, but Dan Grady did. Too little, too late one felt, but they
did manage 2 on marine biology. Nobody knew that Missouri and Tennessee both
border 8 other states. That man Justin Lee knew that Cambodian and Vietnamese
were the languages referenced in he next starter, pushing Imperial through the
200 barrier. The match was gonged before Amol could complete the first bonus on
the court of Elizabeth I – which surely was Hampton Court – which is also very
painful when it happens, but enough of such things. Imperial won by 205 – 120,
and thus are the first team through to the semis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t count Manchester out – they had a fine BCR of 67 to
Imperial’s 49, but they were beaten to the buzzer too many times in this contest.
Tomorrow is another day, Scarlett.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol Watch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol hailed Shane Warne as ‘my hero’. Pretty good choice
I’d say and I’m not even that bothered about cricket. Just don’t have the
attention span for it, I guess. Amol did say that Michael Vaughan was an
appalling answer for the wonder ball question. I mean, yes, it wasn’t great,
but come on Amol! You can’t be the teams’ mate and then at the same time come
out with that sort of thing. It’s not big and it’s not clever. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The first encouragement – to Imperial – was issued on the
ten-minute mark. Worked like a charm. The second encouragement – to Manchester –
was issued about 10 minutes later. Worked like a – not so much. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of
The Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The crested tit is featured on the emblem of The Scottish
Ornithologists’ Club. I just find it interesting considering that they chose it
and not the more glamourous Osprey or Golden Eagle or some other such.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Baby Elephant Walk Moment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Psychology what three word term denoted a number of
theories of social information processing – an example being the elaboration
likelihood model – which attempts to explain an approach to decision making and
problem-solving by positing two separate mechanisms? The first is instinctive,
unconscious and fast and the second is (incorrect buzz) slower and demands
systematic reasoning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not ‘tossing-a-coin’ then? Dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum
dumdum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-63069234096077511322024-02-18T02:28:00.000-08:002024-02-18T02:28:26.759-08:00Mastermind 2024: First Round Heat 24<p>W<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">ell, hello, good morning and welcome back to LAM. I’m back
in Blighty, a bit bruised and battered from my experiences in Romania, but just
about in one piece, thanks for asking.(Alright – explanation – I thoroughly
enjoyed my visit, but tripped over twice on an excursion to Transylvania. Ow.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What about last Monday’s Mastermind then? The things that
people do when I’m not around to keep an eye on them, eh?! There was no real
hint of what would happen later when Emily Frank approached the chair to answer
questions on the human digestive system. For the most part Emily found this set
of questions pretty easy to digest herself. Her knowledge was extremely secure
and she scored an excellent 11 and no passes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PhD student Richard Brooks did not find his own set on AA
Milne and Winnie the Pooh quite so much to his liking. He scored 7 and you can’t
score 7 on a Mastermind subject without knowing it well. However it put him
four points behind Emily and that’s a significant margin to have to make up. I’d
scored four on Emily’s round and added another two on Richard’s. That brought
my aggregate to 6 and I’m afraid that is where it stayed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jake Denney answered questions on The Chemical Brothers. I
didn’t. It was a good performance from Jake, and with a tiny bit more of the
rub of the green he would have been knocking on the door of double figures. I
did actually wiki the band prior to watching the episode, but anything relating
to the questions – eg the previous name the Dust Brothers – had gone out of my
head by the time I did watch it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So it fell to Chris Ducklin to bring the round to a
conclusion with the Jack Ryan novels of Tom Clancy. LAM reader Chris represented
the University of East London in University Challenge in 2016. As we’ve often
seen, previous experience of TV competition is more often a help than a
hindrance, and Chris negotiated his set very competently, reaching a good 9 to
put himself only 2 points behind Emily going into the GK round.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right. That GK round.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s wrong of me to do so I admit but I do sometimes
dismiss contenders who are on the bottom of the leaderboard and several points
behind the leader going into the GK as being down among the wines and spirits.
(In the days of the music halls and then variety bills, performers featuring
towards the bottom of the bill were said to be down among the wines and
spirits.) I apologise to Richard Brooks for mentally dismissing him in this way
as he sat down to his round. His excellent round, as it turned out. Richard
didn’t get all of this questions right, but my goodness, double figures is
good, and a score in the teens is very good. What particularly impressed me was
where he took a breath on a couple of occasions, collected himself and then
dredged up the right answer. 13 was a very fine score and it took him to 20.
Could that be a winning score? It would require three contenders to score less
highly on GK than he had, but yes. It was possible. Likely, though?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jake Denney started one point to the good for his own GK
round. Ah yes, but Jake already had one pass to his name. Scoring 20 would not
be enough by virtue of that pass. He had to equal Richard’s 13. He gave it a
blooming good lash, too, and could have done it with the last question. Sadly
he gave a incorrect answer, and Richard leapfrogged above him to stay in first
place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chris’ face was a picture throughout his round. Being 2
points ahead of Richard at halfway he knew that 12 would be enough. I say his
face was a picture because he almost winced on a few occasions where he
supplied an incorrect answer. He was under pressure and it certainly looked as
if he knew that he was too. By the time the round had ended he had added 11 to
his score, not the 12 he needed. Game over? Not necessarily for he too had not incurred
any passes, so there was going to be a tie-break, unless Emily Frank could
throw a spanner in the works. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well, she did try, make no doubt about that. Like the three
contenders before her she produced a round with no passes. However, like Jake
before her she had incurred a single pass in the specialist round. There was
almost a sense of inevitability about the way that she added 9 to her total to
ensure that she finished with 20 and 1 pass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Clive described this – all of the contenders having the
same final score as unique. He might well be right too. I don’t have the data
to say whether it has ever happened before in the history of Mastermind. In Mastemind
: The Next Generation we had a semi-final in 2017 where three contenders tied
on both scores and passes and so took part in a three-way tie-break. However
there were five contenders in that contest. If there’s ever been a heat where
all four contenders were separated by one measly pass before, I don’t know
about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So after all this then the last place in the semis was
going to either Richard or Chris, and based on their relative performances in
the GK rounds I had a sneaking feeling that Richard might just do it. He got 3
out of the five – so did I although not the same three. Chris got 1. It’s a
hard thing to take, I’m sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What a show to finish the first round on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Richard, many congratulations to you sir, and
the very best of luck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As usual I’d like to give my thanks to all of his season’s
first round contenders, whether you feel you performed above, on par with, or
below your expectations. Without people like your good selves willing to put
yourselves forward and have a go, we don’t have a show. Good on you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Details<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Emily Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Human Digestive
System<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Richard Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">AA Milne and Winnie
The Pooh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jake Denney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Chemical Brothers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris Ducklin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Jack Ryan Novels
of Tom Clancy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-18182820313749754182024-02-11T07:20:00.000-08:002024-02-11T07:20:56.777-08:00Age has its Privileges . . . but should it?<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here’s an open question to think about. How much should you
think about and take into account the relative ages of the members of the
regular teams when you’re setting a quiz? I ask the question because it’s not
an easy question to come up with a definitive answer to.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On Thursday night my friend Adam set the quiz for the rugby
club. I don’t know Adam and Fran’s ages, but I think they’d be similar to Jess
and Dan who both turn 30 in July. Now that makes them the youngest regular
players in the quiz, and by decades rather than years, to be honest. Like Jess
and Dan in the two preceding weeks Adam set a great quiz which I found really
enjoyable. His handout was opening lines from well known pop songs through the
decades from the 1950s until the 2020s.It’s a good idea and was a fine handout –
I always personally prefer handouts which either test your knowledge, or your
ability to work out what you don’t know through using what you do know, rather
than your ability to recognise faces. I won’t tell you how long it took to work
out Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA , but if it had taken much longer he would
have had enough time to record the follow up – and Snuffed it there, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, there were predictably moans from some quarters about
the number of songs from 2000 onwards referenced. I’m almost 60 and I’ve never
heard of some of the songs and artists referenced, so it’s no surprise that the
over 70s struggled. Which returns us to the issue – how much right do you have
to expect the QM to tailor the quiz specifically to appeal to the most numerous
age group amongst the regular players?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well, let’s think about it. Some of those making the loudest
noises about it either:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Have never set a quiz themselves for the club, which to my
mind means their arguments have no moral validity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Do set their own quizzes in which they blatantly include
questions about films/TV/Music from the 1950’s and early 60s, before I was born
let alone the rest of the team. What’s more they are perfectly aware they are
doing it, because they sometimes even apologise to us for it. Then they do I again
every time they set a quiz. Again, to me that means their arguments also have no
moral validity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A Mastermind finalist whose misfortune it was to reach the
final in the same series as the great Kevin Ashman once said that where it is
not necessary to make a change then it is necessary NOT to make a change. Well,
while I understand that point of view I think it’s a hell of a lot harder to
judge when to make a change than this rather simplistic viewpoint would have us
believe. Because the fact is that in the case of pretty much all of the setters
from other teams they ask sets of questions which could have been asked 30
years ago when I first started playing myself. This doesn’t make them bad
questions and it doesn’t even make them bad quizzes. But it does mean that they
are cutting themselves off from areas of knowledge which are fruitful grounds
for quiz questions. For example, it’s still extremely rare for one of the other
setters to ask a question on ICT (and when they do it is often – what does CPU
stand for?) That’s just one example – I’m pretty sure you could quickly come up
with half a dozen others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t want any of the current teams
to stop coming. But despite my own personal plans, none of us are going to live
forever, and it would be nice if on the odd occasions a younger person played
in the quiz they’d find something relevant to their own lives and their own
areas of knowledge and maybe want to keep coming when the regulars shuffle of
this mortal coil and join the choir invisible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-32788769107244304242024-02-11T06:45:00.000-08:002024-02-11T06:45:24.630-08:00Mastermind 2024 heat 2 preview<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It’s heat 24 of Mastermind 2024 tomorrow but I’m afraid
that I probably won’t get to see it until Friday. Yes, I’m off with my
sketchbook and pens early doors tomorrow to beautiful (I hope) Bucharest.
Still, being the public-spirited sort that I am I thought I’d post a preview
anyway. So here tis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The four subjects are:-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The human digestive system<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Winnie the Pooh and AA Milne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Chemical Brothers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Jack Ryan Novels by Tom Clancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right then, tying to be as objective as possible, whilst I’d
prefe rto answer on the McVities’ Digestive system (other digestives are
available but McVities make the very finest IMHO) I still reckon general
knowledge might well bring one or two.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Winnie the Pooh and AA Milne. Well, if I had to pick a
banker subject I suppose this would be it. Details of the books, yes, details
of the life of AA Milne, not so much. Possibly 2 points. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Chemical Brothers. I originally thought that this was another
Science biographical round, but apparently the aforenamed brethren are apparently
popular musicians. I bet they’re not even brothers. No points for me if I’m
lucky. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Jack Ryan Novels. Not only have I never read any of them,
I’ve never seen a film adaptation of any of them either. While this doesn’t
guarantee that I won’t get any points on this round, it certainly makes it the
most likely outcome. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So that’s it. This time next week I will try to put
together a list of the semi finalists and a guide to form. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-32197924017973431362024-02-06T03:50:00.000-08:002024-02-06T03:50:40.322-08:00University Challenge 2024 Quarter Final Round - UCL v. Christ Church , Oxford<p><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Teams</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">UCL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">James Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ali Izzatdust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tayana Sawh (Capt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jacob Finlay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christ Church, Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eliza Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Melika Gorgianeh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arthur Wotton (Capt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Elliot Lowe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nobody goes straight into the semis. Nobody goes straight
home. Yes, that’s the way it works in these first few quarter final matches. But
they’re a pretty good pointer to which teams have the buzzing and the BCR to go
all the way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You know, I always get the feeling it’s going to be a good
show when Rosa Luxembourg is name checked in an early starter. Ali Izzatdust,
so effective on the buzzer in his team’s previous matches, knew that she had
written a work with the word Capital in the title. Capital answer, I’d say. I
was also delighted to see the Art Nouveau buildings of Riga name checked in the
first of the architecture bonuses that followed. I spent Easter last year there
and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a really lovely city. UCL took a full house and
as a statement of intent that’s pretty hard to beat. The internal orchestra
struck up early last night on the very next starter. On the mention of the name
Hawking I shouted out black holes but it turned out these were in the question
anyway. Neither team had it. Now the next starter was one of those which
suddenly becomes obvious with the mention of a name. Blah, blah, blah,
blah-blah, Ravel – BUZZ! I answered Bolero and so did Elliott Lowe, which
earned bonuses on marsupials. A full house for Christ Church levelled the
scores. Ali Izzatdust recognised various uses of the word ghost for his second
starter of the evening. Which in turn gave UCL their second full house of the
evening with world events of the 16<sup>th</sup> century. “Disasters of War”
suggested Goya for the next starter and James Hall thought so too, taking it
for UCL. Placenames in French and English proved to be UCL’s talon d’Achille,
and they failed to add to their score. So to the first picture starter, and
much to my delight a detail from a flag with a star and crescent moon. It was
from the flag of Croatia – a really small detail from the shield emblem in the
centre of the flag. This gave James Hall a second consecutive starter – good shout
that. More flags from outside the Islamic world with crescents and stars
followed. I recognised Portsmouth from the badge of their football club. UCL
managed the other two. Nobody knew The Sound Pattern of English for the next
starter, but Arthur Wotton got his team moving again with Pitch Drop – no, me
neither – for the one after. Bonuses on literary criticism brought just the one,
much to Amol’s amusement. At just past the ten minute mark UCL had a
comfortable lead of 80 – 40.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Captain Arthur Wotton took a second consecutive starter
with a great early buzz on the Russian Pale ( as opposed to the Russian Mild and
the Russian Bitter, I suppose) Malay culinary terms removed ten more points
from the Christ Church deficit. None of us knew the sagittal sutures on the
skull. If you were going to bet on anyone from the UCL team taking back the
initiative on the next starter you would probably have plumped for Ali Izzatdust,
especially since it was about a mathematician. He gave the correct answer of
Germain. “Your bonuses” announced Amol, “ are 3 questions on dimensionless quantities
in Physics.” – Oh, that’s alright then, thought I. The last question asked for
two subatomic particles, and not knowing any better I gave proton and electron.
They were right! I set off around the sofa, sitting back down just in time for
a piano quintet for the music starter. Nobody recognised the work of Brahms.
Arthur Wotton again played a captain’s innings, recognising a description of the
work of Racine. Got to the root of the problem, you could say. (see what I did
there? Oh come on, French – English puns, what more d’you want?) More 19<sup>th</sup>
century piano quintets yielded nowt. Elliot Lowe came in too early for the next
starter and lost five, allowing Ali Izzatdust a shot at an open goal with the
Dahomey Amazons. Only one bonus on Charles II followed. I added a bar to my lap
of honour for knowing Iridium comes between Osmium and platinum in the Periodic
Table, and James Hall was happy to snap up that particular piece of low hanging
fruit. Mottoes on the seals and arms of Africa countries brought one bonus. I
felt for Arthur Wotton as he fell into the yawning trap the next starter opened
before us. It seemed to be begging for the answer bit, but when Arthur Wotton
bit it allowed Ali Izzatdust to tap it in for byte. I enjoyed the set on words
ending with- illa, even though Godz, Astonv and Windym were not amongst the
set. Jacob Finlay piled on the agony for Christ Church getting the island of
Sark for the next starter. Bonuses on reflex actions took the score to 170 – 55
in UCL’s favour. Game over? Pretty much so, I’m afraid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The second picture starter showed us a self portrait of an
artist with a mate. To be fair to Arthur Wotton I thought that it had just a
touch of Caravaggio about the right hand figure. Nobody recognised the work of
Raphael (feel free to apply your own turtle-based comment if you wish). A
buzzer race on the next starter saw James Hall win the right to provide the
answer about Byron’s follow poet Shelley. The self portrait with buddies
bonuses did not add to their score, but frankly that was never going to have a
bearing on the outcome of this match. Eliza Dean took her first starter on the
word ray, to earn bonuses on the Hornbostel-Sachs Instrument Classification
System. Gesundheit. Christ Church took one bonus which was one more than I did.
Ali Izzatdust knew that the Battle of Dettingen took place during the War of
the Austrian Succession. Fathers and sons in Greek Mythology took UCL through
the 200 points barrier. If I tell you that Hysteron Proteron was the correct answer
given to the next starter by Elliot Lowe, what do you think that made me think
of? Yes, it had to be Captain Scarlet – this is the voice of the Hysterons etc.
CAF African Footballers of the Year saw Christ Church deliver a full house at
full speed. Eliza Dean knew that Jae Austen’s final published novel was
Persuasion. The International Booker Prize bonuses took Christ Church into
triple figures. Nobody took the next starter on spiral galaxies. Elliot Lowe
knew Submediant for the next starter. The first winner of the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry gave me a second bar to my lap of hour for recognising a description
of osmosis. That was it. At the gong, the scores stood at 200 – 130.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Winners UCL had a BCR of 55%, while Christ Church had a BCR
of 54%. So it all came down to the buzzer. There is a crumb of comfort for
Christ Church that when they started really slinging buzzer in the last few minutes
they were outdoing UCL. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amol Watch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I took issue with Amol’s reaction on the literary criticism
bonuses – ‘Your mates who study English are going to crucify you for this”. I
studied English and I don’t recall crucifying anyone for not knowing about
practical criticism. The objective correlative, now that’s a different story
and one for another day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Do you remember back when I was forming the impression that
Amol might be a Jedi bearing in mind the galvanising effect his encouragement was
having on teams in the first round? Well, he waited until the 18<sup>th</sup>
minute before encouraging Christ Church, who had slipped 70 points behind by
this stage. It didn’t help, I’m afraid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I applaud Amol for upholding the first answer rule on the
Greek Mythology set. As he said, maybe it’s harsh, but that’s the rule. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of
The Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Manzanilla possibly takes its name from the Spanish for
small apple. I mean, I worked it out, but it had never occurred to me before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Baby Elephant Walk Moment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Bekenstein-Hawking formula shows that the surface area
of a black hole’s event horizon is linearly proportional to what other
property? This formula contains the speed of light, Boltzmann’s Constant,
Planck’s Constant and Newton’s gravitational constant and helped lay the groundwork
for the study of black hole thermodynamics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I feel fully justified in highlighting this question since
neither of the teams had a scooby either. Although they didn’t sing ‘dum de
dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum’ which is a bit of a shame.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-44539274622997481302024-02-06T01:26:00.000-08:002024-02-06T01:26:42.750-08:00Mastermind 2024 First Round Heat 23<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Top of the morning to you all. Let’s talk about last night’s
penultimate first round heat, shall we?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To begin at the beginning, Max Wright kicked us off with
Arsene ‘I did not see it’ Wenger. Sadly, this unofficial catchphrase which he
often used when asked to comment upon controversial on-field incidents
involving his players did not feature in the questions. I say sadly because it
might have brought me more than just the single point I did manage. Max knew
his stuff alright, but there were just enough tricky ones, and a couple where
it looked as if he zigged when he should’ve zagged to prevent him from reaching
double figures. Still, as we’ve seen this series 8 is a competitive score in
specialist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nicola Robertson was answering on the Comedies of Oscar
Wilde. I didn’t expect any points on this round but got one through knowing
Victoria station from The Importance of Being Earnest. I do not know the other
comedies at all, really, so I can’t comment on how fair or otherwise this set
of questions was. I will say that when I have known quite a bit about
specialist subjects over the years the setters have done a good job ensuring
that they have been pretty consistent in the level of difficulty. So I don’t really
know what happened with Nicola’s round, but she scored 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I don’t know whether I ought to boast about getting 3 points
on Heather O’Hagan’s round on Donny Osmond. Basically I remembered the Osmonds
were from Ogden, Utah because when I first learned this from a Saturday morning
cartoon series on their fictionalised adventures because it made me think of
Stan and Hilda Ogden from Corrie. Two other points came from knowing “On the
Shelf” and also from memories of having to endure the bloody awful Donny and
Marie TV show from time to time. It was a bit of a uncertain start from Heather
– she missed two of the three that I got right. However as she became more
accustomed to the chair she grew in confidence and built her total up to a
competitive 8. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As Rashid Mumtaz approached the chair I thought to myself –
please don’t let Donny Osmond be my most successful specialist of the evening
-Rashid was answering on the Godfather trilogy of films and crikey, did he know
his stuff! I reckoned that I was well informed about the first two films, but I
still didn’t get all of those. I had 3 correct answers as we moved to the last
question. No, I didn’t know that Sofia Coppola as a baby had played the same
part in the first film that she played in the third. But then, I couldn’t have
named any other actress from the third movie anyway, and so by default she gave
me the fourth correct answer I needed to make it my best subject of the night
and spare me my blushes. Rashid, as I said, really knew his stuff. 11 points
gave him a very nice cushion going into general knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s be honest, if you have a lower score than you would
have liked in your specialist you return to the chair knowing that you’re not
going to win and in the past we’ve see how this has adversely affected some
contenders. On the other had we’ve also seen some contenders pick themselves up
and dust themselves down metaphorically and give the GK round a really good
lash. Such a contender is Nicola Robertson. She produced a good GK round, and
with just the tiniest little rub of the green she’d have had double figures. As
it was her fighting 9 put her in the lead with 12. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Max Wright snapped out his answers quickly which is a
useful thing to do if you can keep your accuracy as you do so. Starting only
four behind Nicola meant that he was surely going to take the lead. However being
three points behind Rashid meat that he was going to need a double figure round
to have any chance of keeping it. Like Nicola before him Max gave it his best
shot and like Nicola before him he fell one short of double figures on 9. A
good round. However I felt that he’d needed a great round.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Still, it was good enough for him to keep the lead for a
while longer, if only just. Heather O’Hagan followed the example given by Nicola
and Max as she too produced a good 9 point round. She fell just short of the
lead by dint of having a pass from the specialist round and adding another in
the GK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Given the choice I’d always prefer to see a contender winning
the show through a great round rather than losing it through a disastrous
collapse. So I hoped as Rashid returned to the chair that this would not be the
outcome. And it wasn’t. Only Rashid could tell us what was going through his
mind at the time, but he looked to be the epitome of calm as he racked up five.
Yes, he had a bit of a wobble after that, but still kept his cool enough to add
a further 6. This gave him the aesthetically pleasing double of top scores of
11 in both rounds and a comfortable win with 22 points. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well done, sir! A good performance. Best of luck to you in
the semi finals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Details<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nicola Robertson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Comedies of Oscar
Wilde<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Heather O’Hagan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Donny Osmond<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rashid Mumtaz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Godfather Film
Trilogy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-29768288314228238962024-02-04T09:34:00.000-08:002024-02-04T09:34:26.143-08:00Mastermind Heat 23 Preview<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In tomorrow’s Mastermind the specialist subjects will be:-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Career of Arsene Wenger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Comedies of Oscar Wilde<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Donny Osmond<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Godfather Films.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m tempted to say what I sometimes say about this being
the week I finally get a aggregate of zero on specialists. But that’s not fair
on myself. True, I can’t see myself getting into double figures. But I might
score one or two on three of the four subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Career of Arsene Wenger – well, as a Spurs supporter
you wouldn’t expect me to be that knowledgeable about one of our rival’s
greatest managers ever. But I can often get one or two on football and so this
is not beyond the bounds of possibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Comedies of Oscar Wilde. Never studied any. Never read
any. Never watched any – not even the well known one. Any points gained on this
round will be a unexpected bonus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Donny Osmond – Apparently he did have a career before
becoming the worst guest judge ever on Strictly (was it my imagination or did
the BBC apologise afterwards and promise never to have him back again?). It’s another
of those subjects where general knowledge might bring a point or two.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Godfather Films. Ah, this brings back memories! Derek
Moody, a very fine Masterminder, picked it as his specialist for the Grand
Final in the 2007 SOBM (season of blessed memory). He scored a magnificent 17. This
is my banker subject for tomorrow, not because I think I’ll run away with it,
but because I know the first two films well enough to get a couple of points on
each. The third film, nah, not so much. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.com0