Hello again my friends, and welcome to another Quizzy Monday! Coming up, the latest rounds of our three favourites quizzes as usual. But, firstly, a quick addendum to last week's Mastermind courtesy of Mr McDermaid (not McDermott as I called him last week, apologies for that), who reports on the site formerly known as Twitter that his answer of "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" was accepted at first and he won the game on passes, but then, after watching it back, TPTB decided to disallow the answer and the entire ending was subsequently reshot with him not winning! Most unfortunate, and harsh too IMO; I thought his answer was close enough and should probably have been accepted. Anyway, on with tonight's quizzes, and no such harshities tonight thankfully. Let's begin, as ever, with UC...
Harper Adams University I must confess I had not heard of prior to this fixture being announced; it's based in Shropshire and is largely dedicated to the study of agricultural subjects. Playing for it on its first ever UC team were:
Alastair Ward, from Suffolk, studying Rural Enterprise and Land Management
Rachel Henderson, from Preston, studying Fish Immunology
Captain: John Owen, from Chester, studying Entomology
Will Jones, from South East London, studying Automotive Engineering
Strathclyde University has appeared in eight previous BBC series, but has only been beyond the second round on one occasion, in 2020-21, where its team reached the quarter-finals, along the way defeating a Birkbeck team three quarters of whom later won OC as the Strigiformes. Represented them this series were:
Matthew Johnston, from Dumfries and Galloway, studying Chemistry
Kate Lochrie, from Glasgow, studying Diplomacy and International Security
Captain: Jack Stirling, from Inverness, studying Chemical Engineering
Tom McHugh, from Glasgow, studying Mechanical Engineering
Strathclyde started strongly with the first starter and all three of a pretty easy bonus set on last year's Euros. Harper Adams were a bit unlucky not to get the next starter; Strathclyde took the next three, including the first picture starter and, after the first picture round, they led 70-0. Harper Adams finally got going with a couple of starters and two of the resulting bonuses. Strathclyde returned with a starter and two bonuses though; they also took the music round, which they got no bonuses from, after which they led 105-30.
The Scots side continued to dominate on the buzzer; the bonuses weren't falling for them very well, but it didn't exactly matter. Harper Adams did get another starter, and a single bonus, but it proved a brief exception to Strathclyde's dominance, or rather that of their captain Mr Stirling, who was very quietly having a very strong night. After the second picture round, they led 145-45. The match was as good as over, but could Harper Adams get a few more points on the board and reach a decent score. Sadly not; Strathclyde ran away further in the final minutes and broke 200 with the final starter of the game. At the gong, Strathclyde won 205-45.
Not the best contest, but, as ever, two pretty pleasant teams made it worth watching. Well done to Strathclyde, Mr Stirling especially, a good performance, though they may want the bonuses to fall better for them next time; best of luck to them then! Hard lines to Harper Adams, but they gave it a go at least and came across well when they did get in; thanks to them for playing!
The stats: Mr Stirling was, easily, the best buzzer of the night with NINE(!) starters, while Mr Owen was best for Harper Adams with two. On the bonuses Harper Adams managed 3 out of 9 and Strathclyde 15 out of 37.
Next week's match: Imperial vs Churchill Cambridge
Only Connect’s third elimination
match was contested by the Scanners, who were beaten by the Worker Bees in
their first match, and the Benchwarmers, who lost to the Pitchers first time
around.
My Dad claims two points on the dog
question in the first round, and I claim two points on the centenarians gifts
question, one point on the dating apps question and three points on the rhyming
abbreviations questions; the Benchwarmers led 5-1 at the end of that round. My
Dad claims two points on the tax question in the second round and three points
on the Everything Everywhere All At Once question; the Benchwarmers now led
11-7 after that.
The Benchwarmers went first on the
Walls, and worked everything out pretty quickly for a full ten. The Scanners
took a bit longer, but same result, a full ten, so as you were, the
Benchwarmers led 21-17 going into Missing Vowels. They fared better at that at
first, but the Scanners made an epic recovery and so nearly caught them, but
not quite; the Benchwarmers hung on to win 26-25! Well done them and best of
luck next time, and thanks to the Scanners for taking part!
Next week’s match: the Jive
Bunnies vs the Keyboard Worriers
Mastermind was won pretty
comfortably by Danielle Connolly, who 24 points saw her easily win ahead of
Omair Azam with 19, Katherine Rich with 17 and Andrew McKenzie with 16.
And that's it, we're done for another week! Next week, we move on to the penultimate UC first round match, where the teams will know 155 or more will bring them back no matter what. That plus the final OC eliminator and the next Mastermind heat coming up same time same place next week, so, see yous then I guess...
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