Game 2 scores, statistics, and protests

* Starting team
# Playing 4-handed

Statistics

Top individual scores
Lisa         Reach for the Tap             8
Craig        Cellar Rats                   8
Diana        5 of 9                        7
Jim          All Over Twisted              7
Kerry        Frayed Naughts                7
Richard      Frayed Naughts                7
John         MI5                           7
Scot         Sam's Spades                  7
Isobel       What She Said?                7

Rounds from easiest to stinker
    Average  Low High   Round
    6.79    5   10    3. Geography: China
    6.79    4    9    2. Sports/Leisure: Colors
    6.50    4    9    1. Current Events
    6.00    3    8    7. Entertainment: Movie Characters
    5.86    2    8    9. Science: The Coherence of Metric Measure
    5.71    2    9    6. Canadiana/History: Canadian Immigrants
    5.64    0    9   10. Challenge Round
    5.43    3    9    8. Literature: Robert Burns
    4.29    1    8    4. Misc: Fashion Terminology
    4.07    1    8    5. Audio: Vocal Music


Challenge round pairs from most often to least often picked
Times   #games where picked   Avg.   #scores of
picked     2x   1x   0x      score   2   1   0
  14        7    0    0       1.43   8   4   2  Subway Stations by Location
  14        7    0    0       1.36   9   1   4  Naval Battles
  12        5    2    0       0.92   4   3   5  Formerly Undivided Countries
  12        5    2    0       0.83   5   0   7  Corporate Etymology
   9        4    1    2       1.89   8   1   0  Operatic Terminology
   9        3    3    1       0.22   1   0   8  NHL All-Star Game


Balance Report
Diff Favoring   Avg Lo Hi vs.Avg Lo Hi   Round
3.29 second    5.71  3  8   2.43  1  5   5. Audio: Vocal Music                 
2.86 first     7.43  7  8   4.57  3  6   7. Entertainment: Movie Characters    
2.86 second    5.71  2  8   2.86  1  8   4. Misc: Fashion Terminology          
2.00 second    6.43  4  9   4.43  3  6   8. Literature: Robert Burns           
0.43 second    6.71  4  9   6.29  5  8   1. Current Events                     
0.29 first     5.86  2  8   5.57  2  9   6. Canadiana/History: Canadian Immigra
0.29 first     6.00  3  8   5.71  2  8   9. Science: The Coherence of Metric Me
0.14 first     6.86  5  9   6.71  5 10   3. Geography: China                   
0.14 first     6.86  5  9   6.71  4  9   2. Sports/Leisure: Colors   

Protests

Round 4 - fashion vocabulary, John, of 5 of 9, for 1 point, protested question 3 ("a woman's small triangular shawl for the neck and shoulders"). Claimed answer "babushka". We consulted three dictionaries, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, the Random House Unabridged 1st edition, and the OED Supplement. All said that a babushka was a woman's head scarf. Two of them said it was triangular. But none of the three definitions imply that it could cover the shoulders, as we asked for.

Protest denied.

Round 5 - Audio, Greg, of What She Said?, for 1 point, protested question 1 ("The Roches"). Claimed answer "Manhattan Transfer". Comment "the misleading clue said the band was formed in 1978. I saw the Roches live in 1973 in Vancouver. Knowing that the right answer couldn't be The Roches, we went with the only other answer we had".

We agree that the clue was misleading (though not completely wrong), and we apologize for this. The Roches (as an 'official' trio) were founded in 1978, in spite of the fact that two of their members had performed as 'The Roches' (duo) with the occasional participation of the third member of the group. (See http://www.allmusic.com.)

The clip was clearly of the Roches; it's a song called 'We' that no-one else has ever covered (not even Manhattan Transfer!) off the album called 'The Roches', their first official album as a trio.

In deciding this protest, we applied the following principle, based on past practice in the league: if a question contains contradictory information, the player (or team) can give an answer that satisfies any part of the question, and receive points. In this case, one theoretically could have given the name of any band founded in 1978, and receive the points (as ridiculous as that sounds). In this case, they neither identified the band on the tape, or named a band founded in 1978 (Manhattan Transfer wasn't founded that year).

Protest denied

Round 8 - Literature, Steve, of Five Guys Named Moe, for 2 points, protested question 6 ("first statue of Robert Burns outside of Scotland, by John Robert Steell, 1880"). Claimed answer Toronto (Allan Gardens).

These web sites http://collections.ic.gc.ca/gardens/History/historyContent.html, http://www.worldburnsclub.com/expert/canadian_past_times.htm, http://www.geocities.com/allangardens/allangardens_002-en.html, all give a date of 1902 for the Toronto statue.

The following references date the New York statue to 1880: http://www.scran.com/robertburns/memorials/6/, http://scotia-news.com/issue2/ISSUE02f.htm .

Protest denied.

Round 10 - Challenge / Undivided countries, Hal, of Cellar Rats, for 2 points, protested question A2 (Norway vote). Claimed answer 94% with the remark "decimals not specified". Giving the correct figure with decimals widens the allowed range of answers, as 99.95% would round to 100%.

Protest denied.