Good evening friends, and welcome back to Quizzy Mondays! As we near the end of this season, with just five UCs left after tonight, and just six Masterminds as well; the final of that should come the week after UC. OC long finished of course, but, just last night, I finished putting all the regular series results on the Wiki I set up a couple of weeks ago; just the specials left to do now! Tonight, though, it's UC business as usual...
St John's College Cambridge were beaten by fellow QFers Imperial in the first round, but survived to the play-offs, where they narrowly beat U.C.L., then more comfortably beat Queen Mary of London in the second round, but were beaten by Emmanuel in their preliminary QF. They were unchanged from those four games:
Thomas Clark, from the USA and Japan, graduated in Linguistics
Louie George, from Lyme Regis, studying Sociology
Captain: Jonathan Chan, from Cambridge, studying Veterinary Medicine
Kyanna Ouyang, from New Jersey, studying Natural Sciences
Trinity College Cambridge had a much easier road through the early rounds, beating Durham and St Hilda's of Oxford very easily indeed, but they can unstuck against Edinburgh in their preliminary, being quite convincingly beaten. They were also the same foursome as their previous outings:
Hattie Innes, from Surrey, studying Linguistics
Navonil Neogi, from Surrey, studying Maths
Captain: Ludwig Brekke, from Oslo, graduated in Law
Luke Kim, from Seoul, graduated in Physics
So off we set once again then, and Mr Chan won the buzzer race to name 'marble' as the obvious answer for 'building material used since ancient times'; his team took one of their first set of bonuses, but missed the old chestnut about biscuit meaning 'twice cooked'. Two starters were then dropped, before the St John's captain took a second correct, and words beginning 'hap' proved much more to their liking, a full set. Trinity got going thanks to Mr Neogi, and they also took just one of their first bonus set, on county tops. Back to St John's with Mr Clark taking the points this time, which was followed by two correct bonuses. The first picture round, on the deepest lakes on their continents, went to Trinity; a timely full set cut their deficit to 60-40.
Mr Brekke then gave Trinity a second starter in a row by identifying a list of people with the surname 'Brown' (or a variant spelling of), and two bonuses on shipwrecks put them on level pegging. Only for Mr Chan to identify the proposed punctuation mark the interrobang for the next starter; just one bonus followed, before Mr Kim took Trinity back to within five points, and two bonuses on Mount Etna gave them the lead. This increased when Mr Brekke quickly identified Sia for the music starter; the bonuses, on pairs of songs, where the singer of the first wrote the second before finding fame themselves, didn't add to their score, but they now led 90-75.
Two more starters were dropped, before Mr George reawoke St John's; bonuses on the US congress provided them with two correct bonuses, which gave them back the lead, before Mr George took a second starter in a row, and bonuses on diseases gave them a full set. Mr Kim did the right thing and took an early buzz on the next starter, but was wrong at lost five; Mr Chan picked up the starter, and two bonuses were taken with it. The second picture starter was dropped; the bonuses, on kacho-e paintings by Ohara Koson depicting a bird and a flower, went to St John's; one correct bonus took their lead to 155-85.
Trinity would have to flat out go for it if they were to catch up; Mr Brekke duly took the next starter, and one bonus on collaborative fiction took them into three figures. Two dropped starters ran down the clock and made their job a bit harder, but Mr Kim then finally took the next; they took the first bonus, but interrupted the second too soon in their haste. They didn't get the third either, and that was game over. Mr Kim did take the final starter, but there was no time for any bonuses; at the gong, St John's won 155-125.
Another good close contest between two good well matched teams, well played both! Well done St John's and best of luck in the play-offs! Hard lines to Trinity, but they have a good series of performances to their credit, well done to them and thanks for playing!
The stats: Mr Chan was the best buzzer of the night with five starters, meaning he goes back above Mr Hutchinson of Reading in the best buzzer of the series race with 31, while Mr Kim was best for Trinity with four, meaning he ends their run their best buzzer with 16. On the bonuses, St John's managed 15 out of 24 and Trinity 10 out of 21 (with the night's one penalty).
Next week's match: the first play-off, involving two of King's, Reading, Emmanuel and St John's; I would guess the two Cambridge teams, who've already played each other, will be kept apart, so I would say King's vs Emmanuel and Reading vs St John's, but we shall see.
Mastermind began its semi-finals
tonight, and a very high scoring contest it was indeed; Ian ‘Corpus Christi’
Wang just won the game in the end, with 26 points to Lucy Westall’s 25, with
Kit Lane and Ranvir Singh Kalare just behind on 23.
Counterpoint on Radio 4 also began its semi-finals this afternoon; Quizzy Mondays regular Frankie Fanko comfortably won to take the first place in the final in three weeks' time.
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