Thank you to Rob (alias U.N.Owen) for an excellent quiz. Here's his report:
February 2022 Quiz
Many thanks to the 19 teams that participated in yesterday evening's penultimate LALG online quiz. U.N.OWEN hopes that you enjoyed it and learned a lot: he certainly did!
Given your quiz host's decidedly bizarre conception of what constitutes 'general knowledge', there were some very impressive scores, including from those teams that were operating with well below the six-persons per team allowed.
The Round 2 Singalong of musical numbers obviously helped – two-thirds of you managed to count to 357, gaining full marks as a result.
Whilst there were some very good scores in the round, you found Round 3 Only Connect! the most challenging. Well done to The Popping Corks and The B Team for getting the Batman (Villains) connection, the only two teams to do so.
If Round 3 was challenging, you likewise couldn't get over-enthusiastic about Round 8 – All Shipshape – with that awful knots/mph question. The All The Ws team managed a very impressive 10 in the round, but otherwise there were lots of (still commendable) 6-7 scores.
Of the remaining rounds, you did rather well on the food and drink Round 5; ditto on Round 7, based on variations of the name 'Margaret'.
That's it by way of brief feedback on the February 2022 quiz. I'm looking forward, as Rob Townsend (U.N.OWEN's alter ego), to returning to my LALG quiz team, The Dahlias, whom I generally help to achieve a respectable 5th position in the online events. Without me this time (and as The B Team), they managed joint 4th position, from which they'll draw the obvious conclusions.
So here, below, and after very careful checking, are the results: tremendous performances from the Popping Corks and the Stots, but both pipped at the post by the magnificent All The Ws.
All The Ws: 91 points - 1st
The Popping Corks: 90 points = 2nd
The Stots: 90 points = 2nd
The B Team: 89 points = 4th
The Smashing Pumpkins: 89 points = 4th
The Jolliers: 86 points = 6th
The Field Laners: 86 points = 6th
The Von Trapps: 85 points - 8th
The Carrot Cakes: 82 points - 9th
Herts2: 78 points - 10th
The Red Lichties: 77 points - 11th
Figment: 73.5 points - 12th
team touCHE: 68 points - 13th
The Blockheads: 67.5 points - 14th
Two of a Kind: 67 points - 15th
Highover: 65.5 points - 16th
Village People: 63 points - 17th
DVT: 58.5 points - 18th
The A Team: 57.5 points – 19th.
And a quick reminder of the last online quiz of the season: Saturday 26 March, 6.45 for 7pm, hosted by the Carrot Cakes team.