The Bards and the Pigs both win to strengthen their positions in the chasing pack

Charabancs enjoyed a comprehensive victory over three-handed TMTCH at the Stadium of Murk

The Historymen couldn't quite keep up with their visitors, the Bards, who won by 3 points at the Red Lion

Opsimaths powered back to form beating Albert at the Albert Club

SPW got the form book result over newcomers, Calluna Pussycats

Kieran sums up for the crew at the Griffin:

"We liked the questions with Prime Ministerial connections.  The football teams supported by Premiers was also pretty good fun though I doubt Cameron's support for Villa almost as much as I do Tony's for the Barcodes.  What is he doing? Sucking up to Wills?  Though why he should support Villa is also something probably not worth exploring on a Wednesday night.

And we loved learning that the second Mrs. Anthony Eden is still doddering on - especially after I had very loudly and forcefully announced that if Mrs Douglas Home was still going she would have to be 173 and therefore the missing spouse must be Audrey Callaghan who, it turns out, departed the vale of tears that was being married to Sunny Jim, over five years ago.

...however...

Oh Ethel you really should not dabble in sport.  No you really, really shouldn't.  Not when you set a question on which is the only team in the Blue Square Conference to have played in the top flight.  Not when that question falls to the league's most avid (and possibly only) devotee of Harry the Haddock (Ed: I think he's talking about Grimsby Town).  Not when he is then in the position whereby he cannot disown his team's 12 - yes 12 - seasons in the top flight even though he suspects the setters have got it completely wrong and have the arriviste Hatters (16 seasons) as the only answer. As a result a fulminating rage overtook the mildest mannered man I have ever met.  In anyone else it would look like slight annoyance but we knew how deep the hurt and anger went.

Ethel; in the corner please with a huge dunce's cap. Don't mess with this stuff it's way too important.
Other than that it was OK."

......and Damian from Murksville:

"We all enjoyed the connections questions - finding the missing prime minister's wife etc., but I slipped up badly on traditional Catholic theology in mistranslating 'Kyrie Eleison' as 'Lord be with you' instead of 'Lord have mercy'.  An outraged Fr M promptly threatened me with bell, book and candle.  Who'd be a Catholic?  Overall I'd say 'Luvly jubbly.'"

Not such acclaim from the Bards and the Pigs who found the whole thing a bit heavy going.

Despite a number of worthy nominations from other quarters I'm going to exercise webmaster prerogative and plump for Round 5 Question 8:

The collected works of the Dutchman Gerard de Kremer, better known by the latinised form of his name, were published in 1595 with a title which contained for the first time the familiar word by which similar and commonplace collections are known today.  What is the word?

......though Howell suggested that we should make Round 3 Question 1 'Question for the Week' giving all comers a week to try and work out what it all meant (suggestions on the Message Board please).  The question was: "Which 17th century inventor, architect, inventor of the watch balance-spring and original member of the Royal Society published the scientific law that bears his name in an anagram of the Latin phase "Ut tensio, sic vis"?  We were OK up to the bit about an anagram and, indeed, got the right answer, but what is that last bit all about?