Sunday, 24 December 2023

2023 LAMMY Awards: Award for the best performance in a broadcast quiz

Yes, dearly beloved, it’s time to present the award for best performance in a broadcast quiz. What a crop of worthy nominees we have, too. They are:-

Jonathan Taylor, Jonathan Williams, Joshua Mutio – The Strigiformes

Harry Scully, Chloe Margaux, Alex Radcliffe, Bea Bennett – Durham University

Stuart Field

Daniel Adler

To be honest any of our nominees would be worthy recipients of a LAMMY. The Strigiformes won Only Connect, a massive achievement which requires great all round knowledge. The University Challenge Grand Final back in May was a replay of the first heat of the first round, as Durham saw off a superb Bristol team to become the champions. As I say, all of these are worthy champions.

In April Stuart Field beat the Clark prediction that he would be second in the Mastermind Grand Final, where a brilliant specialist round and a fine GK round gave him the won. Now, for fairly obvious reasons I love Mastermind, and in a normal year Stuart would be adding a LAMMY to his trophy cabinet. But it’s not a normal year. For this is the year that this year’s LAMMY winner –

Daniel Adler

Added the Brain of Britain title to his Counterpoint title won a few years ago. Serial finalist Daniel is also a LAM reader and contributor. Who could ask for more?

2 comments:

Dan said...

*Blush*

As for that last question, my wife might have a few ideas.

Londinius said...

Merry Christmas, Dan!