Sunday, 12 November 2023

Why do you love Quizzing?

Sometimes, just sometimes, you play in a quiz that reminds you why you love quizzing.

On Thursday Adam from our team was question master. Now, it is true that I write in praise of Adam’s, Dan’s and Jess’ quiz more often than I ever write in praise of anybody else’s. But that’s because I do genuinely feel that they quizzes they’ve produced are clearly better than the quizzes produced by any of the other regular and semi regular setters.

It’s been a little while since any of us were question master and pretty much all of the quizzes in the club since have been a bit lacklustre for a variety of reasons that I’ve written about in the recent past in this very blog. I don’t plan to go on about this, because I’m still grateful that we have a quiz every week, and even if you are slapdash and careless about it, putting together a quiz takes mental energy.

But it does mean that for me, when Dan, Jess or Adam does a quiz at the club it tends to stand out a bit. Because, despite being amongst the least experienced quizzers at the club, they ‘get’ it. For one thing they all take into account the advanced average age of those taking part. For the number of times we get two regular question setters apologising to our team for asking entertainment questions from the 60s and the 70s, you couldn’t blame them for answering entertainment questions predominantly about the last 10 years and saying “I apologise to all of those of us who are old farts for asking this one”. But of course, they don’t. They go out of their way to make their quizzes accessible to all ages. Why? Because they get it – it being that the only reason for compiling the quiz in the first place is to give the teams an evening’s entertainment that they’ll enjoy.

What did I enjoy so much about Adam’s quiz? Well, for one thing there were no whythe’ells (as in why the ‘ell would anyone want to ask that question?) We only had one question wrong all evening, but that wasn’t because it was an easy quiz. No, it’s because all of the questions could succumb to logic if you really worked at them. As a team, we all played a blinder. With the picture quiz, it was all winners of the best actor Oscar in he last 60 years or so. Not all of them – 18 of them. We were pretty sure on all bar one, but again, it succumbed to the force of logic as we ticked off who it wasn’t, which led us to Jean Dujardin for The Artists – simply because if it wasn’t him, we couldn’t think who else it could possibly be.

And I guess that was the key to what I enjoyed so much. Unlocking the things we didn’t know for certain. Truffling out the answers. It’s one of the things I just love about quizzes. And as I said, it wasn’t that it was an easy quiz -which you could see from the scores of the rest of the teams – not trying to be harsh about it, but it’s a fact.

New Show: 007: Road to a Million

Did you know that Amazon owns MGM? I didn’t. Still, it also means that they own the James Bond franchise. Which brings me to 007: Road to a Million.

The USP, as I see it, in this show is putting pairs of everyday mops (members of the public) into a location from the movies and giving them Bond-esque challenges to achieve and general knowledge questions to answer.

Which is a tough ask for a production company to achieve. If we take the challenges, you can’t surely ask contestants to do anything that puts their lives at serious risk, and you don’t have all the special effects wizardry of the movies to use. So you are in danger of ending up with challenges which make the viewer think – what has this got to do with James Bond? Or even the Milk Tray man for that matter.

However, if you leave the Bond thing to one side until you get into the show, then there is certainly a level of challenge here. While it never quite matches the physicality of SAS: Who Dares Wins, or the gross out revulsion of some of the challenges on ‘I’m A Sleb Get Me Out of Here’, jumping from a helicopter, and estimating the weight of a tarantula (which involved picking it up) do make me glad to be sitting on the Clark sofa and not taking part.

I mean, if you do actually like taking on these kind of challenges, then I guess it’s an absolute blast, with visits to the Highlands of Scotland, Venice and Brazil amongst others thrown into the bargain.

But what about the questions, Dave? Well, like the first challenges, the first questions each pair get asked aren’t that challenging. Each question has three possible answers, and each is for serious, life changing amounts of money. But a scan among the credits reveals the name of Mr. David Bodycombe, and the questions get more and more difficult, and as a result, more and more interesting. I’m glad to say though that they did pretty much reward a certain amount of logical thinking. If one answer seemed more likely than the others it usually was because it was the correct answer.

I think that it helped me being able to binge watch several episodes one after another on Prime. Because I do think that certainly the first episode or two ask quite a lot of the viewer. There’s minimal explanation of the game play or what the game is really about. If you stick with the show you realise that it’s not a problem because it’s not that difficult to work out. IF you stick with it. Because I found the first episode to be a little disjointed in the way that it would suddenly jump from one contesting pair to another.

Another confusing thing is exactly what Brian Cox is doing. Now, I don’t blame Brian Cox for this. Dundee’s finest is a fantastic actor who always brings great value to anything in which he appears. But, I’m just not sure why he is in this. He plays a shadowy figure, who watches the contestants in a studio and whose voice asks the questions, when the contestants find them. Is he Blofeld? Is he M? It’s not clear, and keeping him apart from the contestants is maybe a bit of an own goal. Think what he would be like interacting with them like the various hosts of the different versions of The Traitors.

I’ve said before that shows that fall between two stools often just fall. As a viewer, it seems to me that you get more time devoted to the action adventure challenges than to the questions, yet it’s the questions that bring the contestants the wedge. But it has something. Hey, I like shows like SAS Who Dares Wins, Survivor and The Traitors so this always had a decent chance of appealing to me. But I’m really watching it as a show of this genre, and not as a quiz. I’d advise you to do the same.

Mastermind Prediction

Good morning. I’ve just been over to the BBC Mastermind website to have a look at tomorrow’s specialist subjects. They are – Peter the Great, Exmoor National Park, The films of Quentin Tarantino and The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris.

I will admit that I do have a tendency to play down my own chances. I didn’t make a preview last week, but if I had made a prediction it would not have approached the 17 that I actually did score. But in all honesty I really can’t see me scoring many points tomorrow. If we take the subjects individually:-

Peter the Great – if any of the subjects tomorrow could be called a banker I suppose that it would be this one, bearing in mind the fact that I once read an excellent biography of him, and watched Lucy Worsley’s documentary on him. But these were some time ago. Prediction – possibly 3 at a push.

Exmoor National Park -I’m ashamed to admit that I have never visited Exmoor National Park and know extremely little about it. It will need a lot of luck and a following wind for me to pick up anything here. Prediction – 0 to 1.

The films of Quentin Tarantino. You know I don’t believe that I have ever watched a Quentin Tarantino film. This is not so much through ever making a conscious decision not to watch one, as due to never making a conscious decision to watch one. Now even when there’s a round about a subject like this, there’s always just the chance something general might slip in. So my prediction, again is 0 – 1.

The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris. Again, I have never read the books. Now, presuming that the Cicero being trilogised in them is Marcus Tullius Cicero then a reasonably decent knowledge of Roman history gives me a chance of 1 or 2.

So, to summarise, I think that my most optimistic prediction is 7 points, and my most pessimistic is zero. Hopefully I’ll end up closer to the former than the latter.

Tuesday, 7 November 2023

University Challenge 2024 Round Two - Warwick v. Trinity, Cambridge

The Teams

Warwick

James Coe

Luke Beresford

Matthew Bliss (Capt)

Abby Akarapongpisakdi

Trinity, Cambridge

Sarah Henderson

Agnijo Banerjee

Ryan Joonsuk Kang (Capt)

Jeremi Jaksina

So a mere fortnight after their triumphant return in the repechage Trinity came looking to repeat and to gain their place in the quarters. First blood fell to Warwick though, and James Coe who knew the Fischer Tropsch process. Gesundheit. Two bonuses were taken on notable real-life robots. Nobody knew about he philosophical term disenchantment for the next starter. Jeremi Jaksina took the first points for Trinity, knowing that the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are from Argentina. Writers who have been the subject of biographies by Hermione Lee brought just the one bonus. Jeremi Jaksina took a double, recognising the description of various women with the given name Rosa. I was waiting for Kleb, but it never came. TV shows linked by the US state of Oklahoma brought us both just the one bonus. Nobody knew a sunrise flag on a green background was used by the independence movement in Ireland prior to independence. Sarah Henderson knew that the Crawfords and Bertram’s feature in Jane Austen’s masterpiece, “Mansfield Park”. This earned the picture bonuses of three more flags featuring sunburst motifs. They took two but missed on the only one that I knew, Namibia. Ow, the chemistry starter that followed had a healthy slice of Greek Mythology attached to it or I’d never have known it was argonauts and earned myself a lap of honour. Agnijo Banerjee took that one. Bonuses on pairs of pendant paintings brought the first full house of the contest, and meant that Trinity led by 75 – 20.

Italian and Scottish symphonies were enough to put Sarah Henderson onto Mendelssohn for the next starter. Two bonuses on Thomas Cromwell put Trinity one question away from triple figures. Now it was that Warwick finally managed to win a buzzer race with skipper Matthew Bliss knowing the term simulacrum. Me? No – I could tell you about wasimacram, but that’s about it. The bonuses on subatomic particles earned me a bar to my lap of honour for correctly guessing neutrinos. (So much better than oldtrinos.) This was compounded by knowing cloud chamber and Thomson. I Can’t remember the last time I had a full house on science – if indeed I ever have. Warwick only managed two. I didn’t recognise the wee bit of Debussy for the music starter, but Sarah Henderson did. Other composers who composed works based on symbolist poetry Trinity took two which was two more than I did. Ryan Kang recognised the derivation of the word renegade to take the next starter. He became a little overexcited, raising his fists in the air in a momentary celebration. A dangerous thing to do with half the contest still to go. Playwrights associated with the Theatre of the Absurd (sounds like the plays we used to put on in dear old Elthorne High School in Ealing in the late 70s and early 80s. Not the plays – our ‘acting’) brought Trinity just the one correct answer. I would have answered Ionesco to all of them too in the hope of getting one. Just as Warwick were slipping out of the contest again, the skipper won the next starter knowing the method man, Stanislavski. A UC special set of pairs of places sharing the first three letters in their names brought just one bonus but at least they were moving again. James Coe maintained his momentum, providing the super answer of the prefix super for the next starter. 2 bonuses on cuisine followed. Agnijo Banerjee prevented Warwick from taking a treble, knowing that the most westerly borough of the West Midlands is Wolverhampton. They took a full house on chemical elements, and such was my science prowess in this show I took two of them too! But Warwick’s collective dander was up, and they struck back with Luke Beresford knowing that Mount Korab is the highest point of elevation in both North Macedonia and Albania. 2 bonuses were taken on grammar. I had a full house – thank you Lionel Rose (my latin teacher). Nevertheless, Trinity still had a commanding lead of 155 – 95 on 20 minutes.

Abby Akarapongpisakdi knew that the painting for the second picture starter was by a Russian artist. Three more late 19th/early 20th century paintings depicting bears brought two more bonuses. This set had taken Warwick into triple figures and they were stealthily creeping up on Trinity. Once again though Agnijo Banerjee beat them to the buzzer just when they were working up a head of steam. He knew the cryptocurrency Tether. Literature and Greek Mythology brought a full house, which lengthened the odds of a Warwick win somewhat. Nobody knew methyl violet for the next starter. Luke Beresford took the next starter on Egypt. This earned bonuses on Chad. Nice fella. No, not Chad the person, but Chad the country. TTwo bonuses meant that they were exactly fifty behind with four minutes left. Amazingly it was possible for them to draw. However they needed the next starter. They took it as well! Abby Akarapongpisakdi knew the Orange, Peach and others are all sporting Bowls in the USA. Only two bonuses on video games meant that they were still 30 behind and would need at least two visits to the table. However, with Sarah Henderson taking the next starter Warwick’s hopes wee all but extinguished. Monarchs who died from horse related incidents (No, not Catherine the Great! Wash your minds out with soap!) simultaneously ran down the clock and ran up the lead to forty five. Warwick needed two unopposed visits to the table. They got the first visit when Matthew Bliss correctly identified Emily ‘Cheap as Chips’  Dickinson for the next starter. Two bonuses on reptiles meant that Warwick really had to take a full house on he next set. If there was time. There was certainly enough time or James Coe to take the next starter. 2 bonuses on snakes in Shakespeare meant that the tie was possible if they took the starter. Oh, the narrow margin between success and defeat. Asked for a seven letter stage of cooking sugar, Abby Akarapongpisakdi came in with caramelisation. So close. It allowed Ryan Kang to seal the deal with caramel. Both he and Jeremi Jaksina put their hands together as if giving thanks to a deity. Rightly so for the contest was gonged before the first bonus was answered.

What a contest! What a fightback by Warwick! But congratulations too to Trinity who kept their heads. Warwick’s BCR was 60, while Trinity’s was 58, showing the closeness of the contes, which was played in an excellent spirit.

How is Amol Doing?

With 11 and a half minutes on the clock, Amol uncorked a dose of ‘plenty of time to get going, Warwick.’ That ole jedi magic was back, as captain Matthew Bliss won the next starter. As the contest went on the power of the Force became more and more evident as Warwick came within a gnat’s whisker of forcing a tiebreak.

I like the way that Amol shows his enthusiasm at the end of a contest – and that contest was certainly worth being enthusiastic about.

Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of The Week

The name given to pairs of paintings that were painted together and meant to be displayed together is pendant paintings.

Baby Elephant Walk Moment

Nothing really this week. I can’t nominate the most convoluted Science question because I got it right.

 

 

Mastermind First Round Heat 11

You know, it occurs to me that I didn’t get round to previewing the specialists on Sunday. Had I done so I would have told you that this might well be one of my better weeks. Still, it’s easy to be wise after the event.

Let’s get started then. First into the chair in last night’s show was Tom Flowerdew. Tom was answering on Sir Isaac Newton. That’s one of those subjects where I always feel I have a chance of sneaking in an educated guess or two. In this case it was two. Tom did a lot better and for almost all of the round he looked on for a double figure score. The last question let him down but he still finished on 9, which was competitive at least.

Our second contender, Vicki Hingley, was answering on my ‘banker’ subject, “Red Dwarf”. Vicki achieved a respectable 7. She knew her stuff, but it seemed to me that nerves hampered her a bit, and in a couple of questions names I am sure she knew just wouldn’t come past the tip of her tongue – Jake Bullet and Tarka Dahl being two examples. Not wishing to brag – if you believe that you’ll believe anything – but I didn’t have the pressure on me sitting on the Clark sofa, and I managed my best specialist score of the series so far with 10.

On another night Gilliam McLean’s specialist subject, Mary, Queen of Scots, might well have been my banker. To be fair, I didn’t do badly either, taking five . Which was not as good as Gillian. She managed 7 points. It’s all in the eye of the beholder and the ear of the behearer, but I did think Gillian was given a tough old round here.

Bringin the specialists to an end was Paul Halliwell. He was answering on the Bard of Barking, Billy Bragg. I scored a big, fat zero, but nonetheless my aggregate of 17 was one of the best I’ve managed for a very long time. Paul started extremely well. I don’t know enough about Billy Bragg to comment on the relative difficulty of the questions, but in the second half of the round he slowed so that he finished with 8. Normally this would have put him amongst the wines and spirits, but in this show he was right on the leader’s shoulder.

Okay, Vicki’s GK round. My heart went out to her, because she seemed extremely nervous. She passed quite a few at the start but did manage to rally a little bit. Her 4 was not what she would have been hoping for. But judging from her reaction when Clive gave out the answers to her passes she knew a lot of them but was just struck by brain freeze. It happens. Vicki finished with 11.

It can’t have been easy for Gillian having to follow that. We’ve seen before that there are some shows where there’s something in the air that affects all of the contenders on GK. Gillian did a bit better, adding 7 to raise the target to 14.

It didn’t look to be enough to put Paul Halliwell into the corridor of doubt. Indeed, it wasn’t. Starting a point to the good, Paul fairly easily took the 6 he needed for the lead and went on to add another 4 for the first double figure round of the contest. It was a good round – anything in double figures these days is distinctly useful.

Still, it did mean that Tom, who’d had a long wait to return to the chair, only needed his own ten to win outright, or 9 and no more than 1 pass to win. 9 and 2 passes would mean a tie break, anything else and Paul would win. I liked Tom’s economic way of snapping out brief answers as quickly as he could. However the number that he was getting wrong seemed to increase as the round went on, and it was touch and go whether he would get to 9. He just managed it, and with just the one pass, that was enough for the win. Well done to you, sir.

Tom Flowerdew

Sir Isaac Newton

9

0

9

1

18

1

Vicki Hingley

Red Dwarf

7

2

4

6

11

8

Gillian McLean

Mary Queen of Scots

7

0

7

2

14

2

Paul Halliwell

Billy Bragg

8

1

10

1

18

2

 

Tuesday, 31 October 2023

University Challenge 2024: Repechage 2: Oxford Brookes v. The Open University

The Teams

Oxford Brookes

David Caldecot

Lara Gardner

John Manton (Capt)

James Broadbent

Open University

Ellie Romans

Mike Holt

Anna Gavaghan (Capt.)

James Davidson

Hello, good morning and welcome. On paper this looked like an easy one to predict. Oxford Brookes had suffered the unenviable experience of scoring over 200 in their first round heat and still losing. The Open, on the other hand had just managed to snatch the last repechage place with 155. Bu then again, UC matches aren’t played on paper.

The first clue that maybe the Open hadn’t read he script came when Mastermind grand finalist James Davidson supplied the phrase mise-en scene for the first starter. Pairs of contiguous US states with the last letters of the first being the initial letters of the second were something I couldn’t make much headway with but Anna Gavaghan played a real captain’s innings to bring her team a full house. She continue this with correctly identifying Simone Biles as the gymnast who withdrew from he Tokyo Olympics for the next starter. Christmas came early for me in the Science bonuses that followed, and the Charles Babbage one was so easy I almost didn’t take a lap of honour for knowing it. But I did take it. The mackintosh one wasn’t hard either, though he Open made a bit of a meal of it. We both took the two. Literary Fannies – ooh, Matron – provided the Open skipper with a second consecutive starter. Metafictional films brought another full house. With 6 and a half minutes only on the clock I feared that OB were due to get a burst of Jedi enhanced encouragement any second. So to the picture starter, where neither team could identify the Cross of Lorraine. The next starter was one of those where you have to wait and wait and then suddenly it becomes blindingly obvious and there’s a mad race for the buzzer. This one was won by Mike Holt to identify the word scab. Ugh. His earned Open the cross bonuses of which they took two. So at least we were past the 7 minute mark when Amol offered Oxford Brookes some encouragement. Ellie Romans poured more agony on for OB by taking the next starter on the so called Shetland Bus clandestine operation between Shetland and Norway in world war II. This put Open into triple figures. Two bonuses on Arundhati Roy followed. Finally James Broadbent opened OB’s account knowing the origin of the term Jingoism. They took one bonus on Roman History. This meant that at 10 minutes Open led by 110 to 15.

As soon as James Davidson heard the words eucalyptus and marsupial he buzzed in with the correct answer of koala for the next starter. A single bonus on the philosopher Spinoza was taken. Nobody knew that 1704 saw the first translation of the 1001 Nights. Did you know Belcalis Almanzar is Cardi B? Anna Gavaghan did, which impressed Amol. The Open struck out on bonuses on paintings completed in 1822. For the music starter James Broadbent won the buzzer race to identify the disco stylings of Donna Summer. More tracks featuring the use of a minimoog brought OB a much needed full house. James Broadbent continued th OB mini revival by recognising a reference to the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Decades of firsts for telecommunications brought just the one bonus. James Davidson knew the film The Innocents to halt the progress of OB for the next starter. The Open took one onus on novels set in fictional universities. Mike Holt knew the scientific term doping for the next starter. Non alcoholic ingredients in cocktails brought a full house. James Davidson knew that Boris Pasternak was forced to decline the Nobel Prize for literature after OB had lost five. It was costly for OB bearing in mind that the Open took a full house of literature bonuses. Both teams rather dwelt on their buzzers – surely Arts festival that takes place in August is always going to be the Edinburgh Fringe. When the buzzer race got started it was won by the OB skipper John Manton. Bonuses on digestive enzymes –ugh, I prefer digestive biscuits – brought a couple of bonuses. James Davidson recognised the work of Modigliani for the second picture starter. 2 bonuses on other paintings of women with fans meant that the Open led by 220 – 70 at twenty minutes.

Well, there was at least still pride to play for for OB. James Broadbent recognised references to Barbados for the next starter. Two bonuses on alter egos of female record artists dragged them closer to triple figures. James Davidson knew that the UN Secretary General memorialised with sculptures by Henry‘Holes’ Moore and Barbara Hepworth was Dag Hammerskjold. His team took a full house of bonuses on plays with unseen characters in short order. If it’s Wallace Carrothers, good people, then he answer is nylon. Lara Gardner took that one. OB were now into triple figures and one bonus on US winners of the Nobel Peace prize added five more points. Nobody knew author James Baldwin for the next starter. Fair play to James Broadbent for knowing that the fennec fox is the national animal of Algeria. Regional capitals of Italy brought two more bonuses. James Broadbent took the next starter, the clues giving him the answer that Cannes was the first city to host Eurovision twice. Units of measurement brought another two bonuses. Neither team knew the ancient city of Elea, and Open lost five. Didn’t make any material difference. John Manon knew the next starter about proteins. Aliases in Shakespeare plays brought nowt, I’m afraid. Anna Gavaghan recognised references to the word rosebud for the next. They had time for one bonus and no more. The gong ended the match with The Open wining by 255 to 155.

Hard lines to Oxford Brookes. It’s really hard to come back when a team gets off to a flying start like Open did. OB’s BCR was 52 while the Open’s was a very healthy 68. On this form they’ll have a good chance of reaching the quarters I dare say.

How is Amol Doing?

Well, to be honest, I am beginning to doubt my confident assertion that Amol has Jedi powers. He twice tried to exhort OB, but they never quite caught fire.

Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of The Week

Metafictional films are films that draw attention to their own fictional status

Baby Elephant Walk Moment

The pancreas also produces the enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin par of which large family of enzymes used to break down proteins? It’s not so much that this question is long or unintelligible, it’s just that there’s never going to be any chance of me getting a question like this right. Dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum.

Monday, 30 October 2023

Mastermind 2024 : First Round Heat 10

Welcome to this week’s Mastermind review. We’ll begin with John Castell. It’s only fair considering that he went first. John was answering on Reptiles and Amphibians of the British Isles, and there’s no doubt tha he knew his stuff. However there were enough things which just refused to take the plunge off the tip of his tongue to prevent him posting a really challenging score. I managed 3 on my second best subject of the evening, 2 of which were the first two questions of the round.

Lisa Cowan did better with her round. She was answering on the Salem Witch Trials, and for over half of the round it seemed as if she was on course for a dozen or more. She just missed out on a couple on the run in but sall of her good work meant that she hit double figures and laid down a challenge to those yet to come with 10. I managed one lucky guess to take the aggregate to four.

Siddarth Iyer gave it a pretty good lash on his specialist subject with Indian Premier League Cricket. I have no idea how I knew that there were 8 teams in the original IPL, but it came from somewhere to give me my one point on this round. Siddarth fell just short of double figures with 9, but unless our final contender produced a round right out of the top drawer he was going to be well in contention at the turn around.

Well, I wouldn’t say Rebecca Russell-Peach’s round on Edward VIII was quite out of the topmost drawer, but it certainly was from well above the bargain basement. Like Siddarth before her Rebecca scored 9 which meat that she too was very much in contention as the half time oranges were being passed around. Me? Well, I said in my preview that this was likely to be my banker subject and so it proved. I scored 6 to take my overall aggregate on the specialists to 11. Crack open the champagne, mother.

John was first back to the chair. Three points off the lead and two points of second and third he had absolutely nothing to lose. His round never really quite caught fire, but what he did well was to keep his head and keep plugging away and scoring on the questions he knew. By the end of the round he had added a perfectly respectable 8 to take his total to 15.

To be honest it was always highly unlikely that this was going to be enough for a win. Nonetheless, by the end of Siddarth’s GK round the target was still 15, as Siddarth scored 6. He became the leader on the road through not having incurred any passes to John’s 4. But surely he wasn’t going to stay in that position?

Well, no, he didn’t survive in the lead after Rebecca’s round. However she didn’t find it an easy task to accrue the 7 points that she needed to go into the outright lead. Her 7 took her to 16. This meant that Lisa only needed her own 7 point round to take the win and the place in her semi-final. Was this going to be one of those shows in which all 4 contenders post relatively modest GK scores, though?

No.

I don’t know that you can ever really relax in the chair during a Mastermind round but Lisa never really looked under stress. She wasn’t going as fast as we’ve seen some contenders go I the last year or two, and she wasn’t amassing a monster total. However she was answering calmly and she was answering well. She reached the target with quite a bit of fuel left in the tank and powered on to 11 to win by five points.

My thanks to all four contenders, and well done Lisa, best of luck in the semis.

The Details

John Castell

Reptiles and Amphibians of the British Isles

7

3

8

1

15

4

Lisa Cowan

The Salem Witch Trials

10

0

11

0

21

0

Siddarth Iyer

Indian Premier League Cricket

9

0

6

0

15

0

Rebecca Russell-Peach

Edward VIII

9

0

7

0

16