Hello again my friends, and welcome back to another Quizzy Monday! Coming up, our three quizzes as usual, but firstly, a quick word on UKGS, which is still offline due to the issues with 'autocomplete bots', not 'autocorrect bots' as I said last week! (Typical of my recent carelessness in my online work) Mr Weaver is still posting on his Tumblr page though; just Google 'weavers week tumblr' and you should have no problem finding it. Anyway, on with tonight's quizzes, beginning with UC and a second debutant in as many weeks...
Green Templeton College Oxford were this week's debutants, founded in 2008 after Green College and Templeton College merged, and, like their opponents tonight, is a postgrads only college. Its first ever UC team consistsed of:
Will Owens, from Hereford, studying Engineering
Annie Roberts, from London (originally Australia), studying Medicine
Captain: Yusuf Sahin, from Istanbul, studying Comparative Social Policy
Fiona Asokacitta, from Jakarta, studying Anthropology
Darwin College Cambridge has, in contrast, appeared on three previous BBC series; one, in 2020-21, saw them exit in the first round, but their other two teams, in 2018-19 and last series, saw them reach the semis, largely thanks to their virtuoso captains Messrs Golfinos and Whitaker. Playing fo them this year were:
Lewis Strachan, from North Lanarkshire, studying Parasite Biology
Ruth Ni Mhuircheartaigh, from Cork, studying Education
Captain: Louis Cameron, from London, studying English
Jonathan White, from Buckinghamshire, studying Geography
Darwin got off to the stronger start, taking the first three correct starters of the game, but three bonuses from the resulting nine wasn't the best return. Green Templeton kicked off with the first picture round, after which they trailed 40-15. Darwin resumed their buzzer dominance, with, once again, their captain Mr Cameron doing most of the heavy lifting, though Mr Owens did have a good buzz to bring the Oxonians back into the game. After the music round, Darwin led 85-30.
Green Templeton managed a couple of starters in a row, and a full set of bonuses on one of them meant they'd suddenly caught right up. A third starter and a sole bonus pulled them level, but Darwin duly retook the lead with the next starter. The chairman was harsh but fair to disallow Mr Cameron's (correct) answer to the second picture starter after a slight hesitation; Green Templeton took the bonuses, and the teams were level again, on 105-each. Two starters in a row then gave the Oxonians the lead, but just one of the resulting six bonuses kept Darwin within touch. A starter and two bonuses put them ten behind, the final starter of the game pulled them level, the first bonus gave them the lead... and that was the gong! Darwin won 135-130!
Another exciting end to a game, but, as the chairman stated, a brutal way for Green Templeton to lose, especially given how well they did to pull back in the second half. Well played by them though, a respectable first appearance on the show, thanks for playing! Well done Darwin though, and best of luck in the second round!
The stats: Mr Cameron was the best buzzer of the night with five starters, while Ms Roberts and Mr Sahin were joint best for Green Templeton with three each. On the bonuses, Green Templeton managed 10 out of 24 and Darwin 11 out of 25 (with two penalties).
Next week's match: Trinity Hall Cambridge vs LSE
Only Connect’s final first round
match saw us meet the last two new teams of the series, the Doctors Matthews,
Tina, Alex and captain Sam Matthews, brother of Alex and nephew of Tina, and
the Keyboard Worriers, Frank Withers, Alex McLaren and captain Joanna Matthews
(no relation).
My Dad, who chose to watch the
show instead of the Scotland match(!), claims the same two points as the
Doctors on the carpenters question and one point on the record labels picture
question, and I claim one point on the ‘way to Amarillo’ question; the Worriers
led 5-4 at the end of the first round. I claim the same two points as the
Doctors on the Wallace and Gromit villains question in the second round; the
Doctors led 9-7 after that round.
The Worriers went first on the
Walls, and took their time to work out all four groups, plus all the
connections, so a perfect ten for them. The Doctors did likewise, and all got
all four groups and all four connections; another perfect ten, so as you were,
they led 19-17 going into Missing Vowels. The Worriers just about did better on
that, and the game ended in a 21-each tie! And it was Sam who got the tie-breaker right first
to win the game for the Doctors! Well done them, and the Worriers as well; best
of luck in your next games!
Next week’s match: the Pear Trees vs
the Caraxians in the first elimination match
Mastermind was won by Roger Easy,
who was in third place after the specialist subject round, but put up the best
GK round to win with 22 points, just one ahead of Lucy Fleming with 21 and Beth
Leonard with 20; Ruaidhri O Donnell wasn’t far behind either with 18.
And that's it, we're done for another week! Thanks as ever for reading; hopefully, by the time we do this again next week, UKGS will be back online, but, in the meantime, Weaver's Week's afore mentioned Tumblr page is there if you want to look it up. Back same time same place next week with my usual write-up, so, see yous then...
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