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News & Views
2023–4 Season
Cup Round 1

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Results: Summary
Full Results
Notes

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News and Views: 2023–4 Season – Cup Round 1

With 16 teams in the League this season, all teams were involved in Round 1 of the Cup. The questions were set by an external setter. Teams were asked to provide question masters where possible, and with the help of one or two volunteers all matches appear to have been catered for!

Results: Summary

Poachers 110 58 Pack Horse Bowling Club
Sutton Club 77 95 Nags Head 'B'
Nags Head 85 108 Harrington Academicals
Bate Hallers 83 129 Queens of the Castle
Dolphin 130 78 Sutton Mutton
Chester Road Tavern 59 99 Waters Green Nags
Park Timers 58 94 Park Taverners
Waters Green Weavers 123 74 Dolphin Hammers

Full Results

Note: in the following tables, the teams that went first (taking the odd–numbered questions) are in the top rows.

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Harrington Academicals 17 19 17 17 20 18 108
Nags Head 13 16 16 12 17 11 85

 

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Bate Hallers 12 20 13 14 14 12 83
Queens of the Castle 23 18 21 22 22 23 129

 

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Dolphin Hammers 13 18 9 14 7 13 74
Waters Green Weavers 19 21 26 18 23 16 123

 

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Pack Horse Bowling Club 9 16 15 6 8 4 58
Poachers 22 18 10 20 19 21 110

 

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Sutton Club 12 19 13 10 10 13 77
Nags Head 'B' 20 14 11 16 19 15 95

 

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Dolphin 17 24 24 22 21 22 130
Sutton Mutton 14 10 12 10 18 14 78

 

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Waters Green Nags 16 21 15 15 15 17 99
Chester Road Tavern 11 11 7 7 15 8 59

 

  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
Park Taverners 12 19 15 16 18 14 94
Park Timers 15 9 13 4 12 5 58

Notes

There were some very high scores, although not as high as in last season's Quarter–Finals, when the Poachers scored 134 and the aggregate score of 230 in their game against the Park Timers was matched by the one between the Nags Head 'B' (118) and the Dolphin (112).

Four of the games were won by the teams that went first (taking the odd–numbered questions) and four by those going second.

Sixty–one questions (just over half) were answered in all eight games, and every question was answered correctly in at least two. Three questions were answered in only two games: numbers 17 (the blue plaque in Mornington Crescent tube station), 40 (the language that gave us the word 'yoga'), and 43 (the quotation about power corrupting). Next hardest were numbers 117 (the Caterpillar Club) and 120 (Bix Beiderbecke's real first names), each of which was answered in only three of the eight games.

This would appear to suggest that the teams going first fielded three of the hardest questions (numbers 17, 43 and 117), while those going second got two (40 and 120).

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