| Footloose and Firkin Free* | 67 | What She Said? | 47 |
| Five Guys Named Moe* | 66 | Reach for the Tap | 37 |
| MI5* | 65 | Frayed Naughts | 45 |
| On a Roll* | 64 | 5 of 9 | 44 |
| Sam's Spades* | 63 | Cellar Rats | 49 |
| Misplaced Modifiers*# | 63 | Forza Azzurri | 48 |
| Unnatural Axxe* | 49 | All Over Twisted# | 48 |
* Starting team
# Playing shorthanded
Top individual scores
Doug MI5 8
Mel Misplaced Modifiers 8
Helen On a Roll 7
Matt Footloose and Firkin Free 7
Steve Footloose and Firkin Free 7
Vic MI5 7
Scot Sam's Spades 7
Rounds from easiest to stinker
Average Low High Round
6.14 2 9 3. Miscellaneous: Superstitions
5.93 4 9 7. Geography: Cultural Monuments
5.93 0 8 10. Challenge Round
5.86 4 9 4. Science: All Mixed Up
5.50 1 9 6. Literature: Literary Interrogations
5.21 3 7 1. Current Events
5.07 3 8 8. Sports/Canadiana: University Athletic Logos
5.00 3 8 2. Entertainment: TV Animals
5.00 2 7 9. History: Alchemy
4.29 1 8 5. Audio: Comedy
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 0.64 3 3 8 Special Academy Awards
13 6 1 0 1.85 12 0 1 Wives of the Great Composers
13 6 1 0 1.62 10 1 2 Baseball's Spring Training
13 6 1 0 0.92 6 0 7 Makeshift Biblical Weapons
10 3 4 0 1.50 6 3 1 Physicists
7 2 3 2 0.29 1 0 6 Canadian Aboriginal Treaties
Balance Report
Diff Favoring Avg Lo Hi vs.Avg Lo Hi Round
4.57 first 8.43 7 9 3.86 2 6 3. Miscellaneous: Superstitions
3.00 first 7.00 5 9 4.00 1 7 6. Literature: Literary Interrogations
2.71 first 6.43 5 8 3.71 3 5 8. Sports/Canadiana: University Athlet
2.29 first 5.43 3 8 3.14 1 4 5. Audio: Comedy
1.57 first 6.71 4 9 5.14 4 7 7. Geography: Cultural Monuments
1.29 first 5.86 4 7 4.57 3 7 1. Current Events
1.14 first 5.57 4 7 4.43 2 5 9. History: Alchemy
0.86 second 6.29 4 9 5.43 4 7 4. Science: All Mixed Up
0.86 first 5.43 4 7 4.57 3 8 2. Entertainment: TV Animals
Question 6. We asked:
"God save thee, ancient mariner,
from the fiends that plague thee thus!
Why look'st thou so?"
"You may provide the exact line explaining the subject's distress, or just paraphrase."
Expected answer: "(With my crossbow, I) shot the albatross." (QMs were instructed: Accept "killed an albatross"; if they answer "albatross", say "more specific". *)
Jane of Unnatural Axxe split the difference on the above instruction by protesting "dead albatross" for 1 point.
"Dead albatross" is certainly close, but it misses a significant point (the killing). An albatross dead of natural causes is not bad luck--the disasters that befall the mariner are the consequence of his sin. Of course, without the literal sin of killing the albatross you'd lose most of the metaphorical meaning of the poem, as well, so we think there has to be some indication of the mariner's intentional role.
Protest denied.
Deborah of On a Roll protested "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink", i.e., what ails the narrator is thirst, for 1 point.
Again, it's his responsibility that's the important part, so it seems a stretch to say that the he was upset because he was thirsty.
Protest denied.
Question 3. We asked: "Although he was not the first to expound the notion that all matter is composed of four elements -- air, earth, fire, and water -- this Greek philosopher's doctrine on the subject became normative and indisputable for alchemists for over two thousand years." Expected answer: Aristotle.
Jim of All Over Twisted protested Thales, saying that he "preceded Aristotle".
Thales actually thought that water was the basis of all things, so the protest fails on that basis alone. (Empedocles seems to have originated the four-element theory, but it was still Aristotle's adoption of it that became decisive for alchemy.)
References:
http://astro.wsu.edu/allen/courses/astr150/Notes/week5.html
http://fuzzy.snakeden.org/alchemy/aristot.html
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi76.htm
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/spellbinder/alchemy.shtml
Protest denied.