Good evening friends! Quizzy Mondays back tonight, albeit streamlined with Mastermind still absent. Last week, we saw two institutions that have won the show in the not too distant past, and tonight, we had two more; the winners would go straight through, the runners-up might do so as well. Due to the low scoring nature of the series, the two teams on 135, neither of which would've made it last series, will likely do so again, so anything above that would probably suffice.
St John's College Cambridge is appearing for the seventh time in the BBC era tonight; its most succesful prior appearance was winning in 2017-18, its second most being reaching the semis in 08-09 before losing to Gail Trimble's Corpus Christi. This year's foursome were:
Thomas Clark, from the USA and Japan, studying Linguistics
Louie George, from Lyme Regis, studying Human Social and Political Sciences
Captain: Jonathan Chan, from Cambridge, studying Veterinary Medicine
Kyanna Ouyang, from New Jersey, studying Natural Sciences
Imperial College London has appeared 14 times before in the BBC series, and has won three of those series, in 95-96, 00-01 and most recently 19-20; its also been runners-up once, and gone out in the SFs and the QFs twice each. This year's quartet were:
Max Zeng, from Singapore, studying Biochemistry
Fatima Sheriff, from Hitchin in Hertforshire, studying Science Communication
Captain: Michael Mays, from Montrose, studying Computational Fluid Dynamics
Gilbert Jackson, from Bury St Edmunds, studying Chemistry
So off we set once again, and Ms Sheriff's buzz on the first starter was most odd as, instead of zooming in on her as per usual, it cut away to a reaction shot of Paxo instead; maybe the take went wrong. She was right, in any case, and the Londoners took two of their first bonus set. Mr George quickly got St John's going with the second starter, and they matched their opponents with two bonuses. A pedantic penalty for Imperial was quickly forgotten as Mr Mays recouped the points, and they added another five from one bonus. The first picture round, on Venn diagrams of countries and their orders, went to Imperial, with Mr Zeng impressively taking the starter and all three bonuses, giving them a lead of 55-20.
The next starter and bonus set were also geographical, and Mr Zeng once again quickly polished off all four, increasing his side's advantage. Mr Chan finally stopped him in his tracks as he took the next starter, but they could only add one bonus from the resulting set on birds. Back came Imperial with another starter and full bonus set taking them intro three figures. Back came Mr Chan for St John's, and two bonuses on South America saw them clear 50 points. The music starter, Liszt's 'What One Hears on the Mountain', was missed by both sides; the bonuses, on pieces influenced by it, went to St John's, who took a full set of their own to cut the gap to 105-80.
But Mr Zeng then took two starters in a row to allow Imperial to pull away again; the two bonus sets saw them take one from the first set, and all three from the second on Greek letters. Mr Mays took the next, another full set of bonuses was polished off, and the London side were close to being home and dry. The second picture round, on paintings depicting washerwomen, went to St John's, who took two correct, which took the scores to 170-100.
Mr Zeng took the next starter though, and two correct bonuses pretty much ended the game as a contest. Which left St John's with the task of getting as high a score as possible; Mr Chan duly took two starters in a row, with one bonus from each set putting them pretty much high enough you suspected. A penalty though handed possession back to Imperial, who took two correct bonuses to take them past 200. But another starter to Mr Chan, two bonuses to St John's, and they were now top of the play-offs and pretty much guaranteed a return. There was time for the Cambridge captain to take yet another starter and his side to take one bonus before the gong; Imperial won 210-155.
A good contest between two excellent teams, both of whom deserve to return, well played both! Very well done to Imperial, who look a very solid team indeed, could be one to watch in the next round, best of luck there! Hard lines to St John's for coming up against such a good team, but their also good score will surely bring them back too; best of luck to them in the play-offs then!
The stats: Mr Chan was the best buzzer of the night with EIGHT(!) starters, while Mr Zeng's five were Imperial's best. On the bonuses, St John's managed 14 out of 27 and Imperial a very good 23 out of 30(!), and both sides incurred one penalty each.
Next week's match: St Catharine's Cambridge vs University College Oxford
Only Connect’s second eliminator
match pitted the Apollos against the Wildlifers. The former led 5-2 after the first
round, which increased to 14-4 after the second. A better wall allowed the
Wildlifers to close the gap to 19-14, but the Apollos held off in the final
round to win 24-19. Highlight was the very last Missing Vowels question, on ‘assistants’,
where the clue ‘CRTN’ brought the response ‘CRETIN’! Victoria decided, even
though it was wrong, it was a close enough fit to be worth a point!
Brain of Britain was, for the
second week in a row, a two horse race between Quizzy Mondays alumni Innis
Carson and Dave McBryan; the latter took a slim lead early on, and maintained
it to win with 17 points, though Mr Carson’s 13 will surely bring him back too.
Dorothy Clarkson and John O’Malley also took part, finishing with 9 and 4 respectively.
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