tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27404598.post738931605319751223..comments2023-03-14T17:02:57.878+00:00Comments on Nick's Quiz site: 11th October Home to the Plough TavernersNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272548787922041327noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27404598.post-78322760757240495172016-10-16T14:48:11.870+01:002016-10-16T14:48:11.870+01:00Well Mark, given that you lot are at the Wharf thi...Well Mark, given that you lot are at the Wharf this Tuesday, I would anticipate the beer effect to be at its very strongest for those tempted by the siren song. <br /><br />Thankfully I'm at a Robinson's house, so it should be a straightforward man vs questions battle!MattRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27404598.post-34725500875501476972016-10-16T09:18:33.688+01:002016-10-16T09:18:33.688+01:00My colleagues and I thought they were two good set...My colleagues and I thought they were two good sets of questions this week, with some straightforward ones and a few less so. “Double History” was a good idea as was the “Dog’s Life” set, although the Pointer Sisters one was very tricky! <br /><br />The GK had some excellent questions which did get trickier as the night went on, but I've noticed that beer is also a factor in that regard! <br /><br />The weight of a gallon of water (in old money) fooled us, although our fine opponents from the Robin Hood got it. The Eurovision and Soap questions passed us all by, but that says more about us than the questions - and who knew about the Gatwick Grand National? Now that I’ve seen all the scores, at least three people who got "3s" for that question did - well done Graham Bailey (horse racing buff of the highest order), Grenville Leah and John Poyser!<br />MWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09387752584554188850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27404598.post-67986819287939738312016-10-13T12:57:44.708+01:002016-10-13T12:57:44.708+01:00As can be the case in many sporting encounters, le...As can be the case in many sporting encounters, level of tension and excitement can be inversely proportional to quality of the performances on show. This certainly summed up the Lemmings in the last 6 or 7 rounds and, to a lesser extent our opponents (although Phil Davies played his usual powerful game and his contribution was far more than the 36 he scored). Life in the A League had deprived me of familiarity with a nail-biter (there is something quite relaxing about trying to turn a 60 point deficit against one or other Ox-fford into 57) and, with the questions getting tougher (but never unreasonable) as the night progressed it became a test of mettle as much as knowledge. Although the Lemmings picked up more “1s” than the Plough, it was probably a few reckless answers that gave pass-overs that cost us – and to follow Mark’s Latin phase last week it was mea maxima culpa on four occasions in the GKs. Nick and I agreed to differ on the philosophy that a genuine 50/50 guess should always be risked (half the time you sacrifice 2 points by conferring if you were right, less than half the time you sacrifice 2 by being wrong – given that the opponents won’t always get the pass over), but I had drifted into reckless abandon in an attempt to fish a three from somewhere and this wasn’t helped by a repetitive process that involved Tomo showing me the correct answer written down in sync with Phil verbalising it on the opposite benches. Perhaps it was the perennial problem of the Waters Green, the beer was simply too good!<br />However, after the schoolboy error of beating a team of promotion favourites last week, this was a hard earned defeat, plucked from oblivion after we had built up a solid lead and a vital step on the path to non-promotion.<br />MattRnoreply@blogger.com