Feedback from scoresheets 2023-24

Week 16: To follow

Week 17: To follow

The feedback from the scoresheets for WEEK 19 was as follows:



SCORES:



Winners:



9: Lofthouse Lions

8: Carleton Grangers, Kippax British Legion, Kippax Legionnaires

7: Golden Lion Dudes



Non-winners:



9: Olde Taverners

7: The Other Team

6: Flanagan’s Army

3: Featherstone Phoenix



COMMENTS:



Featherstone Phoenix: Too highbrow – no science, music, sport etc.

[Though we did have ‘Trees and plants’, which is at least natural science.]



Carleton Grangers: Good quiz – enjoyable.



Kippax British Legion: Very good.



STATISTICS:



Two answers were not got by anyone in the FTQL (though only two Division One matches had the chance):



Tony Kushner (Dramatist with whom Spielberg co-wrote ‘The Fabelmans’)

Petiole (Small stalk that attaches leaf to a stem)



Neil.

Week 21: To follow

The feedback from the scoresheets for the HANDICAP CUP RD 1 was as follows:

SCORES:

Winners:

10: Lofthouse Lions
8: Carleton Grangers, Kippax Legionnaires
7: Olde Tavern Allsorts, Olde Taverners, The Vic

Non-winners:

6: Kippax British Legion, The Other Team
5: Flanagan’s Army
4: Featherstone Phoenix
3: Golden Lion Dudes

COMMENTS:

Lofthouse Lions: Excellent.
[The Lions correctly answered every team question that went to them (own question or passover) and scored 10/10 in both written rounds. But does that make it an excellent quiz from their point of view, or should there be some questions that even they don’t get?]
Golden Lion Dudes: Heavily weighted to Team A with easier questions. Was not Division 2 level questions. Need rooms to play in that are quiet. If those are the level of Division 2 questions you’ll lose 2 players at least.
[As the same questions went to all teams, I suppose they were meant to be pitched somewhere between Division 1 and 2.]

Featherstone Phoenix: Seemed D1 level.
Olde Taverners: Good rounds, a bit unbalanced and the A1 Jazz question was incredibly obscure.
[This asked for the nickname shared by saxophonists Edward Stitt and Theodore Walter Rollins, the answer being Sonny. This question was actually answered correctly in all the other matches, though more often as a passover. Perhaps the name ‘Sonny’ Rollins (still alive at 93) rang a bell here.]

The Other Team: Too much like University Challenge questions!!
Olde Tavern Allsorts: OK, but am guessing Round 2 favoured ‘B’ and Round 4 favoured ‘A’.
[See below for the answer to this.]

Carleton Grangers: Mixture of accessible and tough questions. Thanks, King’s Arms.

STATISTICS:

The numbers of questions remaining unanswered (by either team) in rounds 1/2/4/7/9/10 were as follows (in the 6 matches, expressed as A-B):

0-0
3-2
4-1
3-4
5-3
5-4
20-14 (Total)

So there does seem to be a favouring of ‘B’, with 4 out of 6 matches showing it.

Split by rounds instead of matches, the same unanswered questions break down as:

5-2 (Animals in literature)
3-2 (Jazz)
0-1 (Revolts and rebellions)
3-1 (Companies & brands)
0-3 (Cities)
9-5 (Space)

Again, a favouring towards ‘B’ is shown on 4 out of 6 occasions. The Allsorts were right about Round 2 (Jazz) favouring ‘B’ and Round 4 (Revolts and rebellions) favouring ‘A’, but in fact these 2 rounds showed the most even balance of the 6.

Finally, as already indicated by the note on Lofthouse Lions’ performance, there were no answers that defeated the entire FTQL!

Neil.

The feedback from the scoresheets for the HANDICAP CUP SEMI-FINALS was as follows:

SCORES:

Winners:

8: Carleton Grangers
7: Olde Tavern Allsorts

Non-winners:

9: Olde Taverners
7: The Vic

COMMENTS:

Carleton Grangers: Excellent SF. Great opponents.
Olde Taverners: Good rounds, good questions, evenly balanced.
[See below for a balance analysis.]

STATISTICS:

The numbers of questions remaining unanswered (by either team) in rounds 1/2/4/7/9/10 were as follows (in the 2 matches, expressed as A-B):

3-1
1-1
4-2 (Total)

The ‘evenly balanced’ comment was made in the match that was 1-1 above, so was spot on in the context of that match.

The A4 question in round 7 was not got in either match (I haven’t got the detail of the question available).

Neil.