The Teams
Trinity, Cambridge
Piers Marchant
Alessandro D’Attanasio
Yusuf Khand (Capt)
Lily Kearney
Edinburgh
Parthav Easwar
Johnny Richards
Alice Leonard (Capt)
Rayhana Amjad
Like Rayhana Amjad it was the mention of Superman’s polar
home that gave me the answer of Solitude for the first starter.2 bonuses on
plays about Oscar Wilde were taken.Swedish golfers fell to Piers Marchant and
Trinity’s first bonus set on metals brought 1 correct answer and I took an
early lap of honour for Niobium. So sue me. Yusuf Khand knew John Locke’s
Treatises on Government for the next starter. Japanese folklore did not add to
either of our totals. For the first picture starter Piers Marchant identified
Montreal from a map. 3 more cities lending their name to international
environmental agreements brought ten points. An interminable biological
question lost Trinity five but brought nothing to Edinburgh. Various fatal ‘Vespers’
incidents fell to Johnny Richards. Incidentally, the first time I heard the
phrase Sicilian Vespers I thought it was referring to a brand of motor
scooters. The film director Joanna Hogg brought two bonuses. This meant that
the score was 45-40 to Trinity on 10 minutes.
Piers Merchant knew New Caledonia for the next starter.
Portuguese Goa yielded just 5 points. Yusuf Khand came in too early for the
next starter and lost five and given the whole question Johnny Richards knew we
wanted Montmartre. Artistic depictions of Alexander the Great only brought the
one bonus but the scores were now tied. For the next starter Parthav Easwar
jumped the gun allowing Piers Marchant in with Mombasa. Questions on nano
technology provided a full house. For the music starter we heard a bit of
classical harpsichord. The teams were Baching up the wrong tree with Handel and
Teleman as it was JSB, the lad himself. Johnny Richards gave the answer of
palaeogenomics for the next starter to earn the music bonuses. 3 more tracks
played at the funeral of Mr. Sakamoto brought a full house. Good match. Johnny
Richards recognised a quote about John Donne – didn’t mention his old show on
radio 2 though. I’ll be honest, I am not really familiar with the work of RF
Kuang but I managed two of the following set. Edinburgh took all three. Johnny
Richards was on a role and he knew about the red stockings and blue stockings
for the next starter. Bonuses on philosophy gave Edinburgh ten points and at
the 20 minute mark they led by 120 – 75.
Rayhana Amjad recognised references to Ancient Armenia for
the next starter. Songs whose titles are years brought a full house and things
were looking ominous for Trinity. The second picture starter showed a still
from a film with a pram rolling down steps. Piers Marchant won the buzzer race
to identify Battleship Potemkin. Other works discussed in a book about
Socialist Art – laugh a minute stuff, I imagine – did noy bring them any more
points. Piers Marchant recognised references to the word cahiers – and got a
French pronunciation lesson from Amol for his pains. Santa Croce in Florence
brought a welcome full house. Nobody knew something I didn’t understand about computing.
A UC special on instrument strings lost five for Edinburgh and brought
Alessandro Attenasio his first starter with 5. Guage bosons brought 10 more
points. That man Johnny Richards knew that Hanga Roa is the largest settlement
on Easter Island. Natalie ‘Qui?’ Sarraute brought two bonuses that meant
Trinity were going to need at least 2 visits to the table. Alessandro Attenasio
earned one with a fast buzz for acid base in the next starter. Vegetables in
Maya Angelou’s poem The Health Food Diner added no points. Alice Leonard took
the next starter with Evelyn Waugh. A couple of bonuses on Iphigenia pretty
much sealed the deal. Piers Marchant took the next starter on Tucuman. But that
was the last question answered correctly before the gong. Edinburgh won by 180
to 150.
Trinity took a BCR of 46.4% while Edinburgh posted an
excellent 74% and that, my friends, is essentially the story of the match.
Amol Watch
It seems that, along with Bertrand Russell Richard Feynman
is an Amol hero too. ‘Great man.’
Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of
The Week
The only thing about doing these reviews in this way is
that I don’t seem to be picking out the juicy little facts as I normally would.
Baby Elephant Walk Moment
Responsible for the cellular transport of various
organelles, vesicles and other cargo and for the alignment and segregation of
chromosomes during mitosis, which family of motor proteins are responsible for
retrograde transport in the cytoskeleton? That is, they move along microtubules
, , , (incorrect buzz) towards the minus-end as opposed to the plus-end
directed kinesins. Dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum.
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