The evening began with news that the Church House had recruited a new reserve – Ed’s wife had had a baby that day – congratulations to both.
The Church House are old adversaries and we have enjoyed many a tussle over the years. This was to be no exception.
The picture above may be a bit of a puzzle to some but it was provoked by questions 7 and 8 in the Sport specialist section: “Where are the World Bog-Snorkelling championships held?” was bad enough but to then go on to ask “Who is the current Bog Snorkelling world champion?” nudged Bob’s memory of what until then had been the worst question ever asked in the Macc Pub Quiz League: “What animal other than man can catch leprosy?” with the answer the nine-banded armadillo – no leeway!!!
Whilst the other sport questions were not as bad as these, nevertheless no-one from either team scored throughout the round.
At the end of the specialist the Phoenix had nosed ahead with 45 to 39 and finished with 120 to the visitors’ 102, no doubt distracted by the happy news and absence of the proud father.
The scores generally were low throughout the evening but the General Knowledge were marked higher than the specialist. Tomo had a particularly good evening despite some very severe marking that provoked sympathy from the Church House.
Nick has already overstepped his quota of cock-ups by thinking that the Merry Wives Of Windsor feature in Shakespeare’s yet-to-be written play The Sisters of Bath.
Individual scores were Bob 9/9, Wendy 9/9, Nick 6/9 and Tomo 12/21 with conferred points 4/19 and passovers 5/8. The Church House picked up 2/10 passovers.
Jackie from the Cock ruled with an iron hand and timekeeping was good.
A great game rounded off with a generous selection of sandwiches – thanks to all.
3 comments:
At times, there seemed to be a wilful lack of pragmatic thought on the part of our questionmaster. "They're particle detectors on the large hadron ring at CERN" was my answer to Science Q2 (passed over). Everyone in the room agreed it was right. The quizmaster stared blankly at the answers and declared: "That's not the wording I have here". The room was not a happy one when she read out the answer.
And Science Q8: My answer was that A Tokamak part of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor. Again, the blank stare at the answer and: "That's not what I have written down here". Googling the text of the answer, it was clearly lifted from Wikipedia, which goes on to explain how it is part of, you guessed it, a nuclear fusion reactor. In fact, the word has become synonymous with a class of experimental nuclear fusion reactor. Or it was in the lecture I went to in February...
Not impressed. Not impressed at all.
The 9 banded armadillo question brings back memories of long long ago. Must be about 20 years now. The bog snorkelling question is definitely up there with the worst questions ever !!!
This was definitely an injustice - twice!! I did refer to it in the original blog
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