Not without trepidation did the Lemmings gather for their second home match, this time against old adversaries The British Flag; they
But at least we had Rosie the team mascot who was unaffected by the team’s tension and slept through the entire evening (until food appeared that is!!).
We were very pleased with the questions at first but as the game went on, there were some really odd questions beginning to appear and we immediately nominated the Sport question on Lester Piggott (his middle name???) for the Nine-Banded Armadillo trophy – there may be other contenders this season.
At the end of the Specialist rounds the Lemmings were trailing by five points with 55 to the Flag’s 60 – not looking good!
But the Lemmings then made a remarkable come-back and at the half-way stage in the General Knowledge were some 20 points ahead – only to see that lead begin to slowly dribble away. However the Lemmings kept their heads and managed to scrape a win with 78 in the General Knowledge to the Flag’s 68, thus winning the game with 133 to 128.
Individual scores were Bob 12/18, Wendy 9/18, Nick 9/9, Tomo 12/12; conferred points were 9/12 and pass-overs 4/9. The visitors picked up 7/10 pass-overs.
A most enjoyable game rounded off with Brian’s home roast lamb and ham sandwiches with a tasty vegetarian option.
Thank you Brian, the British Flag and the question master from the Robin Hood who conducted his first game calmly and with humour.
2 comments:
Nick,
Many thanks for the usual interesting update.
We had a very enjoyable night at the Dolphin and thanks are due to Derek from the Knot Arf for his excellent QM performance, topped off by a degree of entertaining confusion about one question when he asked one of us “Where in the ear is the Cochlea?” rather than “Where in the body…” I know the questions can be difficult sometimes, but...!
I would suggest there were some possible “Nine-Banded Armadillo” moments in there as well though, between kalongs, buffleheads and all that seaweed.
I’d like to nominate what I thought was the oddest question of the night for the NBA Trophy, the one about “cucumber time”, apparently some sort of off-season for Tailors!
As long as chickens lay eggs, as they say, I’ve never heard of that…still better than watching the TV, though!
I second the various 9 Banded Armadillo trophy nominations above, although I made an informed guess at the seaweed. Middle name of Lester Piggott indeed!
But setting questions quickly for the start of the season is hard...
Liz Horrocks
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