Results & Match Reports

This week:

• Demonstrating that my little tale below gives totally the wrong impression, Albert Park enjoyed a comfortable win over the Opsimaths  in the first Albert Club derby of the season (sponsored as ever by Orkney Dark)

• For the first time in four seasons Fifth Finger opened their account with a win - the victims being the Pigs

• Ethel Rodin also started in fine form at the Oak beating the Brains

• St Caths kept up their good start with another win at home, this time against the Albert

• Stumped slipped up at home to the Historymen who share top spot with St Caths

At the Albert Club it was good to see a return to the fold for old gravel voice himself, Dave Rainford, who gained temporary release from looking after baby Ella, to play for Albert Park.

At the Cricket Club Ivor reports:

"The best wrong answers of the night were our identification of the Nobel Peace Prize winner as the woman thumped by Girls Aloud singer Tweedy, and Stumped's identification of the Tolpuddle Martyrs as members of the boy band Busted"

Quiz Paper Verdict

As for the paper, set by the X-Pats, I was not enamoured (largely, I suspect, because I didn't seem to know a thing) but the others at the Albert Club assured me it was my stupidity and that the standard of the paper was fine.  I guess I am just totally ignorant of anything to do with nasty diseases and chemicals, which seem to crop up fairly regularly in a Christie's (X-Pats) paper.   The first appearance (at least to my knowledge) of questions based on the IKEA catalogue (Round 3 Q4 & Q5) weren't so popular down at the Oak, I hear.  However despite these comments the aggregate scores seemed fine, at 64, 66, 70, 71 and 72.

The Question of the Week

Ethel Rodin liked the question about the only six-letter English word ending with 'cit' (Round 6 Q2) but the question of the week in my book was the Shakespeare quotation (Round 6 Q6):

“Deny thy father and refuse thy name”, follows which famous line of Shakespeare’s?

Click here for the answer to this and all the other questions and answers from this week.

Chatterbox

In response to my comments last week about what constitutes an opera, and what a musical, Roz (Ethel Rodin) writes:

"The part of the Jailor in Die Fledermous is a speaking part, but the work is classified as an opera - not an operatta or a musical.  Porgy and Bess falls into the same category - it was an opera to be performed only by black people (according to Gershwin's instructions)."

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Last weekend I was privileged to be invited by the Albert Park team to a team night out - it was Mark's birthday.

We went to the Frog and Bucket Comedy Club on Great Ancoats Street.  Early on in the evening the MC performed the usual trick of getting the audience warmed up by asking if anyone was there to celebrate a birthday.  We duly pointed at Mark and shouted out his name.  'Oh,' said the compère, 'and how old are you, you flaxen-haired stain?'.  Well if you know anything about the Albert Park team the last thing to do is to put them under pressure by asking them a question.  Mark was on the point of blurting out an answer but the others reined him in at the last moment.  'Just a minute,' they said, 'we'd like to confer on that one.'  Mark maintained he was 44 but the others had their doubts without really being too sure of a plausible alternative answer.  'Perhaps we should ask the the MC if there is any plus or minus leeway,' said Richard.  Altogether the debate raged back and forth for the best part of an hour.  Even Mark was convinced that he didn't know the answer after all.  Eventually well into the third act they had reached a conclusion.  Of course it was wrong, Mark was blamed for not sticking to his guns from the off, and the questioner had had plenty of time in the intervening period to abuse everybody else at the venue many times over.