Hello my friends, and welcome back to JOW for Week 4 of Quizzy Mondays! Althought somewhat shorter than usual this week and next, with Mastermind taken off air for, well, it was supposed to be cricket highlights this week, but that seems to have fallen through and we got Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip with Jeff Stelling and Chris Kamara instead! The two big hitters of the block were still on though, as was Brain of Britain yesterday as well, so still plenty to talk about; let's do this...
We start as ever with UC, which was, as I already mentioned in my Sliding Doors post, a rematch of an infamous second round match from the 2006-07 series. Firstly, we had Warwick, who've had many strong teams over the years, including the winners of that series and 2020-21, but many have unluckily been knocked out in the second round, including, as AR and Mr Banerjee of the Trinity team that beat them have both pointed out, last year's quartet. This year's team comprised of:
Ananya Govindarajan, from Edgware in London, studying Engineering
Thomas Hart, from Miskin in South Wales, studying Maths
Captain: Oscar Siddle, from Islington, studying Maths
Benjamin Watson, from Amersham, studying PPE
UEA, as it now seems to favour being announced as rather than 'East Anglia' as before, are appearing in a fifth BBC series, of which all of the previous four bar one, including the afore-mentioned 06-07 team and last's year's team, have all gone out in the second round (last year's, fittingly, the week after Warwick went out!). This year's line-up consisted of:
Nik Willis, from Lichfield, studying Medicine
Marlowe North, from Dublin, studying History
Captain: Soumyajit Saha, from Kolkata, studying Medicine
Ciaran Shaffrey, from Reading, studying Environmental Science
Warwick started stronger with the first three starters, with two full sets of bonuses and one dropped completely set; UEA didn't get going until the first picture round, but took a full house on that, taking the scores to 60-25. The two teams then alternated starters for the second phase of play, but Warwick fared better with the bonuses to maintain a steady lead. They also took the music round, with Mr Hart impressively getting the starter very quickly; two bonuses took their lead to 125-55.
UEA had an unlucky miss as Mr North unluckily offered the title of a novel, Mansfield Park, instead of the sought-after character Fanny Price; let off the hook, Warwick proceded to take two starters and all bar one bonus to increase their lead. UEA did have a good little run then though, with three starters including the second picture round, after which they trailed 185-115. Warwick then turned on the afterburners however and raced further away in the final straight and were out of sight by the time UEA next scored. At the gong, Warwick won 275-125.
Impressive stuff from Warwick, Mr Hart especially; they'll be hoping not to suffer another unlucky early second round exit, best of luck to them there! Hard lines to UEA, who probably won't be back in the play-offs, but they gave a very fair account of themselves indeed and can be satisfied to have done pretty well against such a good opposition; thanks for playing!
The stats: Mr Hart was easily the best buzzer of the night with NINE(!) starters, while Mr Shaffrey was best for UEA with three. On the bonuses, Warwick managed a pretty good 27 out of 40 and UEA 11 out of 21.
Next week's match: St Catharine's Cambridge vs Wadham Oxford
Only Connect’s fourth heat was
contested by the Harmonics, Lisa Karlin Curtis, Alice Young and captain Zahava
Rosenthal, and the Cat Cows, Iona Twaddell, Molly Glaze and captain Max McGenity.
I’m claiming points on the ‘spoken in unison’,
‘anapoditon’ and tattoo questions in the first round, after which the teams were
tied on 3-each. I also half-got the Harder Better Faster Stronger question in
Round 2 (I worked it out but not the exact answer); the Harmonics led 9-6 at
the end of that.
The Cows then struggled a bit with
their wall, only taking four points; the Harmonics did better, getting all the
groups, but only two connections, for six points, meaning they led 15-10 going
into Missing Vowels. But the Cows fared very much better on that with a superb
showing on the first two categories especially, and turned it around to win
19-17! Another good contest though, well done both teams, and best of luck next
time!
Next week’s match: Too Many Cookes
vs Pipe-dreamers
Brain of Britain began in earnest
yesterday afternoon (although, yeah, I waited until this afternoon to actually
listen to it!) with its first heat of the new series. Heather Smith was the
first winner, winning a closely fought contest with 10 points, one ahead of
Richard Aubrey (OC winning captain) with 9 points, which probably won’t be
enough for a high-scoring non-winner slot sadly; Sophie Williamson and Brendan
Curtis (another OC alumnus IIRC) also competed, and finished not far behind
with 8 and 7 respectively.
Interesting at the start that
Russell Davies acknowledged how frustrating the show’s format can be, how a
good player can be undone by a tricky question early in their turn; as I said
last week, a few folks have raised similar objections about the format before. I may go into this in greater depth at some point.
For now, though, another week is in the bag; thanks once again for reading, and I'll see yous again next week...
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