Good evening again my friends, and welcome back to JOW for another Quizzy Mondays! Just four weeks left of the full set, as Brain of Britain is nearly over for the year now. Still plenty to go for the other quizzes though, UC especially, and, given the very high standard this series, there's going to be plenty more drama to come; drama to make Chelsea's last two games look calm! (OK, maybe not, but you get the idea!) Tonight, the second repechage survivors met one of the infamous 'five' that I made a right mess of assessing in my second round preview...
Open lost their first match to Hertford and only just made it into the play-offs, but really made the most of their second chance as they soundly thumped the favoured Oxford Brookes side 255-155. They were unchanged from those previous matches:
Ellie Romans, from Henley-on-Thames, studying Nursing
Mike Holt, from Wilmslow in Cheshire, studying towards the Open degree
Captain: Ann Gavaghan, from London, studying Art and Architectural History
James Davidson, from Fraserburgh, studying English Literature
UEA were comfortable winners over Strathclyde in their first round match, one week before Open's first, winning 235-125, but it wasn't that one-sided until the final minutes. They were also the same quartet were:
Melissa Shiress, from London, studying Pacific Collections in National Museums Scotland
Bryony Yates, from Wolverhampton, studying Plant Biology
Captain: Owen Tobin, from Nottingham, studying Medicine
Matthew Jennings, from King's Lynn, studying Philosophy
So, off we set once again then, and Mr Davidson shot off the mark to take the first starter, which Open followed up with two bonuses on blue plaques. A second starter to Mr Davidson provided them with a very quickly taken full bonus set; he didn't make it a hat-trick with the third starter, which UEA lost five on, but did with the fourth, followed by two bonuses. UEA did finally get a word in with two starters in a row, including the first picture round, on postal districts and chemical elements (been a while since that came up on this show); two correct bonuses from both took the scores to 60-35. But a penalty allowed Mr Davidson in once again, increasing Open's lead further. UEA were at least picking up points now, but Open were matching (and bettering) them. After the music round, on five movement symphonies, Open led 140-55.
Mr Tobin did ensue all four UEA players had a starter to their name, and they quickly fired out two correct bonuses; but Mr Davidson was, again, in like a shot with the next, which may have been only followed by just one bonus, but their lead was sufficiently strong that it didn't matter, for now at least. UEA took another starter, but no bonuses followed, and on the next, Ms Shiress buzzed, but the answer agonisingly escaped her just after she'd done so; Open duly swooped, and then went on to ensure yet another match where all eight players had a correct starter under their belts. After the second picture round, on paintings discussed by John Berger in his Ways of Seeing series, Open led 205-80. UEA did take another starter, and quickly banged out three bonuses deservedly to reach three figures, but another quick buzz from that man Mr Davidson and a full house of Open's own officially ended the game as a contest. A couple more starters pushed UEA to a good final total, but a late run from Open meant they had accrued their highest score of the series so far. At the gong, Open won 265-130.
Another excellent and high quality contest despite its one-sidedness. Very well done Open, another superb performance, which certainly stands them in strong stead heading into, what looks already to be, a high quality second round; best of luck there! Hard lines to UEA, who did very well indeed to get that score against such strong opponents; thanks for playing!
The stats: Mr Davidson was, by far and away, the best buzzer of the night with NINE(!) starters, while Mr Jennings was best for UEA with four. On the bonuses, Open managed 26 out of 42 (with one penalty) and UEA 11 out of 27 (with three penalties) and, for, I think, the fourth time this series, all eight players answered at least one starter correctly. (Incidentally, as pointed out by someone on LAM over the weekend, last week's show saw all eight players get at least TWO starters right, a superb, and ultra rare, feat that I missed completely; well done to them again!)
Next week's match: Christ Church vs Emmanuel
Only Connect continued the
play-off round with one of its classic avoidable rematches, with the Roadies
and the Stitchers meeting again. The teams were level on 4-each after the first
round (I claim three on the Track and Field question) before the former took a
narrow lead 6-5 after a tough second round. A better wall gave the Stitchers
the lead 15-13 going into Missing Vowels, and they just about maintained that
lead there to win 19-17.
Mastermind was won by Caryn Ellis,
whose 21 points saw her finish three ahead of Seb Dwyer and Anne McElhinney
(also on the current series of Brain of Britain) in joint second on 18, with
Jonathan Paxton (formerly of OC last series) completing the line-up with 16.
Brain of Britain’s second
semi-final was a very good contest indeed, with Dan Adler leading with 12
points going into the final round, only for both Jude Cole and, spectacularly
via a 5IARAABM, Dave Cowan to both draw level in the final round and force a
three-way tie! Mr Adler won that to take the second place in the final. Mickie
Wynn-Davies completed the line-up with 5.
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