Having had a bye in the first round of the Cup this was the Lemmings’ first appearance in this season’s contest and it was with some trepidation that they prepared to meet the Oxford C once again on their home turf. Not that the visitors are in any way the stony-faced miseries that A League teams are often portrayed, on the contrary they are a relaxed, friendly team with an immense store of knowledge finishing top in the A League last season with Alice achieving the highest score.
The Lemmings started off well dropping just one point in the first round (both teams overruling a member’s correct answer in one case – Assyria!!) but then began to flag a little. The questions were well balanced but unfortunately not the Lemmings’ strengths.
Scores for each round of 20 questions were (visitors first) 17/16, 20/12, 20/7, 17/15, 18/14 and 20/14
The evening was rounded off with a fine selection of sandwiches – many thanks to Brian and Stephen, to the Oxford C for an interesting and light hearted game and to the question master from the Sutton Mutton.
3 comments:
A similar moment to "Assyria" happened in our game too, with both teams considering "Boston" for the location of Ally McBeal but failing to go with it.
The questions didn't get off to the best of starts but were OK overall. A bit heavy on 'topical' stuff, some of which was rather specialised, which didn't do my team any favours.
One dispute (Portsmouth as a city on an island) which led to a supplementary being used.
Last but not least, I suggest Questions 6 and 11 as nominations for the armadillo award. For Q6, even those who'd heard of Reba McIntyre were completely guessing at the year required. For Q11, not one member out of two decent teams had heard of Sarah Perry or her winged leviathan.
The 3 men of the Harrington Academicals got the predictable battering by 73 & Pizza as presumably the Oxford will be re branded
In a good humoured match(?) they had a lot to laugh about
Mark Watson inevitably knew of the Essex Serpent, so no armadillo there
I thought I'd been robbed when I suggested Elgin was the smallest city in Scotland - the football team is Elgin City, but the place has been downgraded to a town. Despite having a city break in Portsmouth earlier this year, I failed to notice that the city was on an island - although Wikipedia says it is
The answer I don't believe is that Cheese.com states that Gouda accounts for over half the world's consumption. If it does, it is wrong. Mozzarella and Cheddar account for more than half of US cheese production and the US produces just over half of the world's cheese
An entertaining evening was had by all - thanks to QM and setters
Finally, for all who enter the lions' den, the excellent range of bottled beers are all at £2.50 on Tuesday evenings. I had an excellent Polish beer - 5.6% abv, but that doesn't explain our score
A very good-natured game on Tuesday and it was unfortunate that the Harrington could only field a team of three at the last minute due to unavoidable circumstances - I hope that things are as well as can be expected on that front.
Gouda does indeed sound most unlikely to be such a mass-selling cheese - and I don't say that just because I'm not that keen on it!
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