| Misplaced Modifiers | 61 | Footloose and Firkin Free* | 49 |
| Cellar Rats* | 56 | MI5 | 56 |
| Unnatural Axxe | 54 | 5 of 9* | 49 |
| What She Said? | 53 | Reach for the Tap* | 42 |
| All Over Twisted | 50 | On a Roll*# | 41 |
| Sam's Spades | 46 | Frayed Naughts* | 44 |
| Forza Azzurri | 44 | Five Guys Named Moe* | 41 |
* Starting team
# Playing shorthanded
Top individual scores
Cam Reach for the Tap 6
Lisa Reach for the Tap 6
John All Over Twisted 5
Rick On a Roll 5
Jim Unnatural Axxe 5
Craig Cellar Rats 5
David Footloose and Firkin Free 5
Steve Footloose and Firkin Free 5
Vic MI5 5
Glen Misplaced Modifiers 5
Ralph Misplaced Modifiers 5
Scot Sam's Spades 5
Rounds from easiest to stinker
Average Low High Round
6.36 4 10 10. Canadiana Challenge Round
5.86 4 9 1. Current Events
5.79 3 8 8. Miscellaneous: 50 Ways To Kill Your Lover
5.36 1 8 2. Sports: Coaches
5.29 1 8 5. Audio: Funk
4.86 3 8 7. Geography: Place names in other languages
4.86 3 7 9. Entertainment: Rock group names
4.36 2 7 4. History: WWII Resistance
4.07 1 6 6. Literature: Science-Fiction Characters
2.21 0 6 3. Science: Playing Mendeleyev
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 1.57 9 4 1 Orchestral Conductors in Canada
14 7 0 0 1.50 9 3 2 Canadian Sports Awards
13 6 1 0 1.23 7 2 4 Canadian Railheads
11 5 1 1 1.64 8 2 1 Quebec Institutions
10 3 4 0 0.70 3 1 6 Canadian Literary Magazines
8 1 6 0 0.62 1 3 4 Women's Rights in Canada
Balance Report
Diff Favoring Avg Lo Hi vs.Avg Lo Hi Round
1.57 second 5.14 3 7 3.57 2 5 4. History: WWII Resistance
1.57 second 6.14 2 8 4.57 1 7 2. Sports: Coaches
1.00 second 6.29 4 8 5.29 3 7 8. Miscellaneous: 50 Ways To Kill Your Lover
1.00 first 4.57 2 6 3.57 1 6 6. Literature: Science-Fiction Characters
0.86 second 5.29 3 8 4.43 3 6 7. Geography: Place names in other languages
0.29 second 6.00 5 7 5.71 4 9 1. Current Events
0.29 second 5.43 3 8 5.14 1 7 5. Audio: Funk
0.14 first 2.29 0 6 2.14 0 5 3. Science: Playing Mendeleyev
0.00 equal 4.86 4 6 4.86 3 7 9. Entertainment: Rock group names
* Round 1, Current Events
* Question 1: "Canada's inflation rate hit a 12-year high in
January, it was announced last week. To what level did it rise?"
-- expected answer 4.5%.
David of Footloose and Firkin Free protested "4.3%" for 1. He
said he remembered hearing about a speech where (former Bank of
Canada governor John) Crow said that a rate of 4.3% was too high.
Crow did give a speech to the Economic Club on February 25
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20030226/RCROW/TPBusiness/
but the January Consumer Price Index was not announced until
February 27, so this is clearly irrelevant. If Crow mentioned
a rate of 4.3%, he would have been talking about November,
the previous high. The 4.5% rate can be confirmed at
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20030304/RMIKE/TPBusiness/
Protest denied.
* Round 3, Science: Playing Mendeleyev
* The preamble said "All you have to do is tell us the names of some
of the elements we've removed from the [handout periodic] table".
Most of the questions just gave an element by atomic number.
Question 10 read "Element 57. Hint: Consider the other name for
the rare earth series" -- expected answer "lanthanum".
Vic of MI5 protested "lanthanide" for 1, claiming that the question
"did not exclude" this answer.
The question was clear enough; we explicitly said that the part
about the rare earth series (whose other name is the lanthanide
series) was a hint. There are no elements whose names end in -ide,
and the only name for this element is lanthanum.
Protest denied.
* Round 10, Canadiana / Challenge
* Pair E, Canadian Railheads
* Question E1, "Name the only port on Hudson Bay served by Canada's
main railway network" -- expected answer "Churchill".
Elizabeth of What She Said? protested "Moosonee" for a steal.
Moosonee is indeed on Canada's main railway network, specifically
the Ontario Northland Railway. It's actually on the Moose River,
which flows into James Bay a few miles away; and James Bay, of
course, is an arm of Hudson Bay. We meant the only port directly
on Hudson Bay, but we neglected to say so, and this is good enough.
Protest accepted.
* Yet again Game 5
* Round 4, Sports: Rodeo
* Question 5: "What is the only event in which partners are permitted?"
-- expected answer "team roping".
* Dale of Cellar Rats protested "bulldogging" for 2 and "steer
wrestling" for 1. These are, of course, the same event, so
the 1-point protest is moot. He says it requires two people.
We denied the protest on the grounds that it doesn't. We were wrong.
Only one person actually wrestles the steer, but as many web pages
will confirm, he has a partner called a hazer whose job is to steer
the steer in the right direction.
Protest finally accepted for 2.