3rd March - Home to the Dolphin Dragons

This was the second leg of our games against the Dolphins who were currently third with 1 and 2 games in hand; the Lemmings for their part were next to bottom. But in the first leg, the Lemmings had triumphed by just one point but still felt they were peering into the abyss.

The game was about to begin when Rob the question-master noticed that not one of the C League games' questions had been collected and initiated a flurry of phone calls that resulted in four exasperated and breathless couriers bursting through the Tavern door to ensure they played a game over the next half hour.

The specialist questions were quite good, obviously the result of much thought rather than dipping into quiz books, and although the Lemmings did not score particularly well they marked them accordingly. Nevertheless they trailed by 18 points with 48 to 66 despite a beer break.

The General Knowledge had been set by the King's Gambit, their first time to do this in their first

season and this was taken into account in the marking. But there were far too many phobia questions (shouldn't be any really) although we were spared collective nouns. This led to several groans and longueurs and a further beer break in which an interim score check showed the Lemmings had closed the gap by 10 with 32 to the visitors' 22. Unfortunately they were unable to maintain this momentum eventually taking the GK rounds with 54 to 47 - reducing the overall score to a loss of 11 by 113 to 102.
The tedium of the game was broken by some jokes the punchlines being: Peruvian parrots = Inca Hoots; Elvis' Return to Zenda: and Tie a Yellow Gibbon ..!!!

Throughout there was a friendly and jocular atmosphere that Rob controlled with a deft hand.

Individual scores were Bob 9/3, Becky 3/3, Nick 9/21 and Tomo 12/6; conferred 12/12 with 3/9 pass-overs while the Dragons collected 6/9 pass-overs.

With a sigh of relief a large plate of varied tasty sandwiches appeared - many thanks to Brian, Rob and the Dolphins.