Yes, this week is the last appearance of the Phoenix in the 2010/11 season. Next week we will be question masters and closely watching the results as there is a slender chance that we might be promoted to the A League next season.
The final game was against old friends the New Castle and was played with much good humour as the following exchange will illustrate:
Question “What is the name of the soft spot on top of a baby’s head?”
Ans “fontanella” quickly corrected to fontanelle
Graham “When it’s a girl it’s fontanella”
Nick “I thought that was the G spot”
Graham “That’s where you’ve been going wrong all these years”.
This exchange ignited Nick’s usual weak spot (remembering names) although he was confident enough when asked for Boy George’s surname, answering firmly “Dowd” forgetting the O!! One passover there then!
Special mention must be made of the question master for the night Julian who was flexible but firm and gave a lot of insight into the vetting of the questions.
The specialist rounds were particularly good although at the end the Phoenix were trailing 50 to 52; this deficit was recovered in the General Knowledge questions and the Phoenix managed to edge ahead eventually finishing with 79 to 63 the final score being 129 to 115.
Individual scores were pretty good except for Nick who was no doubt pondering his missed biological opportunities, whilst Bob had a storming run in the General knowledge. Scores were Bob 9/24, Wendy 6/15, Nick 6/3 and Tomo 6/18; conferred points were 14/10 and passovers 9/9. The New Castle collected 6/7 passovers.
We’ve thoroughly enjoyed the season and look forward to 2011/12 in the autumn.
The evening finished with a superb supper of sausages in onion gravy with bread and butter and the Tavern’s famed real chips.
Thank you Brian and Tracey for your support throughout the season, the New Castle for a great evening, Julian for running the quiz excellently and our opponents over the season for an excellent series.
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