Greetings friends! Well, the festive season is finally upon us properly again. The Christmas specials of the main Quizzy Mondays quizzes began this evening; as per usual, I won't be covering every episode of them in immense detail, but I will do my usual two weekly summaries of Christmas UC. For tonight, though, there's the small matter of yesterday's Brain of Britain final.
Our contenders were Andrew Fanko,
whose presence here justifies the allowing of high-scoring non-winners to come
back in the semis (Mastermind PTB take note), Anthony Fish, Alan Gibbs and Tim
Hall.
An amusing moment in the first
round when I incorrectly guessed Raj Bisram as the TV antiques expert who used
to be a hairdresser and then Anthony did so too! He had nul points at the end
of that first round, Andrew had 2 and Alan and Tim both had 4.
Things were a lot tighter after
the second round, the scores at the end of which were a nicely ascending
sequence of Anthony with 3, Andrew with 4, Tim with 5 and Alan with 6. Tim had
taken the lead after the third however, now having 10 to Alan’s 8, with Andrew
and Anthony on 6 and 5 respectively. At which point, we paused for Beat the
Brains, with outgoing champ Dan Adler setting the questions as is traditional,
and winning as they could only answer one of them.
A low scoring fourth round, the
highlight of which was a question about the Spice Girls’ three successive
Christmas No 1s which was rather similar to a question on this morning’s Ten to
the Top! Tim had increased his lead over Alan by one after this, 11 to 8, while
Andrew and Anthony now had 8 and 6 respectively.
Anthony had the best of the final
round, and he and Andrew ended up with 9 each. Tim maintained his lead over
Alan though, and finished with 13 to his 10, making him the new champion!
Congratulations to him, and kudos for his words of congratulations to his
opponents at the end too, and thanks to him and everyone involved for another
most enjoyable series!
That's that then, but before I go, a quick update on Mastermind, which, given that another celebrity edition is scheduled for January 13th, I suspect the earliest we can now expect the regular series to return is February 3rd, nearly a month after UC and OC.
Back on Sunday with my usual summary of the first week of Christmas UC; until then, wherever you are whatever you're doing, have a very Happy Christmas, and sayonara...
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