The Teams
Southampton
Ethan Lyon
Magda Steele
Dom Belcher (Capt)
Elliot Miles
Robert Gordon
Samuel Fregene
Donald Anderson
Emily Cullen (Capt)
Faye Cooke
The first elimination match of these quarter final stages
paired Southampton with Robert Gordon. Southampton were narrowly beaten by
Durham in their previous quarter final match, while Robert Gordon were
comfortably beaten by Royal Holloway, who qualified for the semi finals just
last week. Even before the start of the show my gut feeling was that
Southampton would win. Bearing in mind my success rate as a tipster, though . .
.
We began with a set of clues towards a series of books
linked by the word Little in the title. Emily Cullen had little trouble with
that one. If you knew your Greek mythology then the set of bonuses on
constellations were very gettable, but unfortunately Bob G. didn’t and failed
to add to their score. The forest of Arden and the Ardennes gave Dom Belcher
the next starter, while bonuses on a UC special set with pairings of otherwise
unliked words that you might see at the top of pages of a dictionary brought
two bonuses and the lead. I’ll be honest, it was pure guess that the next
starter required Madame Lavoisier – well, I say pure guess, although I knew
that the time was right and that anything French and chemistry related from
then was probably her hubby. Still took a lap of honour around the sofa for it.
Dom Belcher seemed as much stabbing in the dark as I was, but he was right too.
Literary theories brought two more bonuses. For the picture starter Elliot
Miles identified Max ‘thick as two short’ Planck and the location of the Society
named after him. Other German cities with multiple Max Planck Institutes
brought a single bonus. This meant that at the 10 minute mark Southampton led
by 55 – 10.
Donald Anderson came in too early for the next starter but
Southampton couldn’t capitalise by making the link between ennui and boredom.
Basically ennui is a better class of boredom. Ethan Lyon made the link between
the asteroid Io and the ionosphere for the next starter. Now, that ever popular
old chestnut of exogenous growth models in economics did not result in a full
house. In fact it did nothing for anyone except running the clock down. I didn’t
understand the maths bit of the next starter but I did know that Mr. Happy
visits Mr. Miserable. So did Dom Belcher. People born in New York in the
twenties gave me nothing, but Southampton did take the first. No disrespect
intended, but Southampton certainly were taking their time going into the ins
and outs of these bonuses in this match. Emily Cullen came in early for the
next starter answering Brazil for the former colony that declared independence
from the European country of which it was a colony in 1821. To be fair I would
have probably done the same. Given the full question Southampton got the right
island but the wrong country. Now, the score was 80 – 0 to Southampton. We were
almost exactly halfway through the contest, and Bob G. were having to start
from scratch. So Donald Anderson buzzed in early to identify Doric as the word
linking Scots and Greek dialects. Famous German telegrams from History saw them
take 1, but in all honesty they really could have done better with a very
gettable set. Never mind, they were on the way at least. Skipper Emly Culen
took the next starter as well, hearing hardly a note of the music starter
before identifying the work of Smashing Pumpkins. 3 more songs with videos
inspired by particular movies might have worked better had we actually been
shown the videos. Nonetheless we boh scored two correct answers with them.Emily
Cullen took her double knowing that Marseille are as it stands still the only
French club to win the Champions League. Recent Booker nominated novels largely
set in countries in Africa brought a couple of bonuses. This meant that the gap
was down to a full set of starter and bonuses. However Donald Anderson came in
too early for the next starter, and his answer of Czechia probably helped Ethan
Lyon identify Slovakia as Eurpoe’s largest producer of cars per capita. Ellipses
produced 1 bonus. Interestingly, I did what I always do and answered 1 for a
question asking for a value and was right. So it was just past the 20-minute
mark and Southampton led 95 – 50.
So to the picture round. Now, a couple of weeks ago when
someone answered Kenyatta to a question JP asked which Kenyatta? Last night he
accepted just Kenyatta from Elliot Miles. 3 more photos of first presidents of
African countries yielded just one bonus, but again ran the clock down. Elliot
Miles knew Tunicates are chordata – gesundheit. Death masks brought two bonuses
and you sensed that the Bob G revival was over. Dom Belcher knew that the
fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet is omicron and this gave Southampton a
set of bonuses on the four stroke era of motorcycle racing. Fair enough. Very
much to Elliot Miles’ liking, so it seemed as he took a full set. The gap was
now 100 points. Emly Cullen knew that John Banville wrote “The Sea”. Two
bonuses on the inspirations for Shakespeare plays followed. Nobody knew the
next starter on Tibetan. Dom Belcher made the connection between the Portuguese
word for farmhand and the province of Labrador. Lithium brought two bonuses.
There remained just enough time for a last number starter which Dom Belcher
got. Then the gong and a Southampton win by 180 – 65.
Neither team was either brilliant or disastrous on bonuses,
both either just over or just under fifty percent. But clearly Southampton
dominated the buzzer, and that was the difference at the end of the day. Hard
lines, Robert Gordon, but you made the quarters and nobody can take that away
from you.
Interesting Fact that I didn’t Already Know of
the Week
The Portuguese word for farmhand closely resembles
Labrador.
2 comments:
Starter watch:
Ethan Lyon - 2
Magda Steele
Dom Belcher - 5
Elliot Miles - 3
Samuel Fregene
Donald Anderson - 1 (2)
Emily Cullen - 4 (2)
Faye Cooke
Winner: Dom Belcher
Thanks George
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