After months of me thinking "what if one of my questions comes up in one of this week's popular league quizzes?" and it never happening once (not even belatedly as far as I've noticed), this week it happened twice in the same OQL UK set! Obviously a total coincidence as those questions must have been written several weeks ago, but what a lovely vindication! There's also absolutely no chance I'd have known either of the Stourbridge bands if I hadn't gone looking for a Round 5-worthy question on UK indie music a week and a half ago. And then the Bulgarian Cyrillic fact from Round 4 popped up just a few minutes later, plus a spare mentioning Nelson Riddle who I asked a Round 5 question about ages ago. I'd been almost getting worried that I wasn't as good at anticipating useful facts as I thought I was, but I'm a little reassured now!
Excellent scores! I'd never heard of Okeechobee before I started assembling that round, so that's a particularly impressive R5 pull. I'm sure you won't be the only one who struggles with R3: chemistry is by far my worst science in quiz and I think that's not uncommon. There's a lot more pop physics and biology content out there in TV documentaries, podcasts, mainstream books, references in fictional media; whereas chemistry is just a whole lot of dot structures that are hard to make tangible without getting in a lab. It's not an easy round by any means, but I always try and put stuff in R3 that's genuinely challenging even for people who know the subject quite well. Hopefully there were questions in there that at least seemed cogent enough to be worth remembering for next time. And 4 is nowhere near the lowest R3 answer I've seen in the history of this series, so you've every reason to celebrate the ones you got right!
I did this a round at a time in between writing parts of a looooong funing application, and I recommend that as a pleasant way of experiencing (the non sciency bits of) Jonathan's excellent work
R1 20/20
R2 13/20
R3 4/20 - actually quite pleased to at least have got 4(Gallium, Cobalt, Angstrom & Carbon 14)
R4 9/20 - should have got Autoclave with all the 'Call the Midwife' episodes I've seen!
R5 - so much pain... just 'That Obscure Object of Desire'
R1: 19 (thought R1 was quite a lot tougher than usual, and we got our first ever R1 wrong answer with Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat).
R2: 17 (Conversely, our best-ever R2 score)
R3: 7
R4: 12
R5: 2 (Chihero and Dylan O'Brian. Hit the post with That Immaculate Object of Desire for a clean sweep of the film questions)
Total: 57
R1: 19 (missed God Only Knows, I recognise the song though)
R2: 6
R3: 10
R4: 8
R5: 3 (Chihiro, Teruel, Currying)
After months of me thinking "what if one of my questions comes up in one of this week's popular league quizzes?" and it never happening once (not even belatedly as far as I've noticed), this week it happened twice in the same OQL UK set! Obviously a total coincidence as those questions must have been written several weeks ago, but what a lovely vindication! There's also absolutely no chance I'd have known either of the Stourbridge bands if I hadn't gone looking for a Round 5-worthy question on UK indie music a week and a half ago. And then the Bulgarian Cyrillic fact from Round 4 popped up just a few minutes later, plus a spare mentioning Nelson Riddle who I asked a Round 5 question about ages ago. I'd been almost getting worried that I wasn't as good at anticipating useful facts as I thought I was, but I'm a little reassured now!
1. 20
2. 14
3. 4
4. 9
5. 2
R1 - 19 ("Mortal Kombat is not Streetfighter, old man", cries my son in embarrassment)
R2 - 11 (Crunchyroll a regularly forgotten fact here)
R3 - A shameful 4 (eight electrons / Gallium / Cobalt / Carbon-14)
R4 - 12 (Bulgaria worst miss, Skellig Michael best pull)
R5 - 5 (Boulmerka / An Englishman Abroad / Ned's Atomic Dustbin / Lake Okeechobee / That Obscure Object of Desire - all the long answers!)
Did anyone else get more on R5 than R3, I wonder *chin stroking emoji*
Excellent scores! I'd never heard of Okeechobee before I started assembling that round, so that's a particularly impressive R5 pull. I'm sure you won't be the only one who struggles with R3: chemistry is by far my worst science in quiz and I think that's not uncommon. There's a lot more pop physics and biology content out there in TV documentaries, podcasts, mainstream books, references in fictional media; whereas chemistry is just a whole lot of dot structures that are hard to make tangible without getting in a lab. It's not an easy round by any means, but I always try and put stuff in R3 that's genuinely challenging even for people who know the subject quite well. Hopefully there were questions in there that at least seemed cogent enough to be worth remembering for next time. And 4 is nowhere near the lowest R3 answer I've seen in the history of this series, so you've every reason to celebrate the ones you got right!
I did this a round at a time in between writing parts of a looooong funing application, and I recommend that as a pleasant way of experiencing (the non sciency bits of) Jonathan's excellent work