The Teams
Southampton
Cormac Stephenson
Zain Mahmood
Florence Williams
(capt)
Ben Hermanns-Kermode
Imperial
Rahim Dina
Eugenia Tong
Oscar O’Flanagan (capt)
Justin Keung
Oscar O’Flanagan signaled
his intent with a viciously fast buzz for the first starter which hinged on
knowing Tristan De Cunha’s capital as the Edinburgh of the Seven Seas. Audra
McDonald – she of the 6 Tonys – brought Imperial a full house.You had to wait
and wait with the next one, but when it mentioned a shade of blue patented by
the person in question Florence Williams won the buzzer race to answer with
Yves Klein. Terms related to video game graphics unsurprisingly provided me
with nowt but Southampton took a full house. Oscar O’Flanagan correctly worked
out that Fezzan would be in the modern day Libya. Parks and Gardens brought
just the one bonus. Fair play to Rahim Dina. He was in extremely early with the
acronym Crispr for the next starter. Three questions on sulphide minerals did
not exactly have me quivering with anticipation. Actually I earned a lap of
honour for knowing pentlandite as a major ore of nickel – like Imperial I had
the other two as well. Cormac Stephenson was very excited with the picture
starter when he identified the work we saw a page of as being by Satie. Three
of Satie’s unusual performance directions brought just one bonus. Nobody knew
the two Kingston Upons for the next starter. This meant that as we approached
10 minutes Imperial led by 65 – 35.
Long before Amol could
finish the question Florence Williams had correctly answered cystic fibrosis
for the next starter. Plays attributed to Aeschylus brought just the one
although they were a little unlucky not to quite get 7 Against Thebes – somehow
this brought to mind Five go mad in Dorset, but that’s my problem. Oscar O’Flanagan
was in very early again for the next starter with Dunes. The cinematographer Mukdeeprom
delivered Imperial a full house. Oscar O’Flanagan’s energetic buzzing brought the
next starter with various references to Tours, but archaeological bonuses were
not productive for Imperial at all. Cormac Stephenson identified the work of
Philip Glass, whom I believe is known as ‘heart of’ to his mates. Pieces specially
written for a new medium yielded just the one bonus.Rahim Dina identified Tibet
as the country where the epic of Gesar Khan (You know him, Gesar the Geezer) originated.
Love in Philosophy yielded just one correct answer. Didn’t matter. Imperial
took the next starter with the Metre Convention – (whose 1969 song “Oi, you minger,
that ain’t my finger “ failed to make the US hot 100. ) Eponymous limits in
astrophysics brought a full house and Imperial were approaching the event
horizon beyond which victory became a certainty. Ben Hermanns-Kermode narrowed
the gap by knowing that yellow and red are the two colours of the flag of the
Walloon region of Belgium. Typhus in literature brought a full house. Nobody knew
the Giant magnetoresistance effect (who did reach the US Top 11 in 1969 with ‘You’re
my Dairy Queen and I’m your Jelly, Baby’) Ben Herrmans-Kermode was first to
work out that potassium nitrate in the next question pointed towards Gunpowder.
Two bonuses meant that Imperial still led but with the scores at 110 to 140 on
20 it was still either team’s game.
Cormac Stephenson took
the second picture starter recognizing a Manet painting of his parents (that’s
Manet’s parents, not Cormac’s) More artists’ paintings of their own parents brought
just one correct answer. But the momentum seemed to be with Southampton. Even
more so when Florence Williams took the next starter with Julian of Norwich. Culinary
terms introduced to English by William Dampier brought two bonuses needed to
give Southampton the smallest lead. Imperial weren’t finished though as Justin
Keung knew that XI are the two letters in romanised pinyin that represent the
word – west – in place names. South East England place names mentioned in Ian
Dury songs brought just one bonus. Still Justin Keung took the next starter
knowing the prison diary of Wole Soyinka. People whose surnames began with Del
brought 1 bonus. Imperial weren’t quite out of the woods yet. They looked safer
when Eugenia Tong gave the surname Lewis for the next starter. Two bonuses on
computer commands meant that they were almost there. Florence Williams recognized
winners of Economics prizes. Surely there just wasn’t enough time left for
Southampton.One bonus on Shakespeare would not be enough as they were still 30
points behind. Florence Williams took the starter on Holland in Lincolnshire. Two
bonuses on the Thirty Years war and the gap was just 10. But the time was gone.
Imperial won by 190 to 180.
Southampton’s BCR was
56.6% while Imperial’s was 60% and that small margin sealed the deal for them.
Amol Watch
Amol, mate, we know
that philosophy is your bag. You don’t have to remind us everytime you get a
set of questions to ask about it. Nor rub it in when the teams give an
implausible answer either.
Interesting Fact
That I Didn’t Already Know of the Week
The first piece of
Music commissioned for the radio by the BBC was composed by Gustav Holst.
Baby Elephant Walk
Moment
The computer science
set was short but soporific but that’s down to my ignorance and nothing was
really worth a dumdum in this show.
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