After the Fact

After the Fact is Claremorris Community Radio‘s weekly quiz trivia game. It’s a bit like QI crossed with Sesame Street. Each week two teams face questions on a specific theme and the theme progresses alphabetically from one show to the next.

I’m the quiz master and the team captains are Andrew Newman and Marcella Connolly, two regular show hosts on Claremorris Community Radio. We’re also assisted by Clancy, our robot score-keeper!

Each show consists of four rounds:

Multiple choice
Connections
Audio clips
20 questions

If you’d like to listen live, go to www.claremorriscommunityradio.ie at 7pm on Thursday evening and click on the ‘Listen Live‘ button. The show is also repeated on Mondays at 10am. If you’d like to listen to some previous shows, check out our archive on mixcloud.com: www.mixcloud.com/claremorrisfm/playlists/atf/

Update 1: We now have a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/AftertheFactCCR
Update 2: The show is now available as a downloadable podcast on iTunes. You can find it here: itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/after-the-fact/id484967885#

List of episodes:

#	Topic	Team A		Score	Team B
1	Alcohol	Andrew Newman	Anne McLoughlin	14-15	Marcella Connolly	Dave Edwards
2	Birds & Bees	Andrew Newman*		7-16	Marcella Connolly	Vinny O’Loughlin
3	Colours	Andrew Newman	Colin Barton	16-9	Marcella Connolly	Ger Slattery
4	Days	Andrew Newman	Vinny O’Loughlin (2)	11-14	Marcella Connolly	Tommy O’Connor
5	English	Andrew Newman	Dolores Keaveney	6-12	Marcella Connolly	Rob McConnell
6	Fire **	Andrew Newman	Mark Gallagher	16-16	Marcella Connolly	Aidan Long
7	Gods	Andrew Newman	Ger Slattery (2)	12-8	Marcella Connolly	Gráinne Connolly
8	Holidays	Andrew Newman	Seán Adair	9-6	Marcella Connolly	Annette Adair
9	Islands	Andrew Newman	Chris Bye	9-11	Marcella Connolly	Allan Tiernan
10	Johns	Andrew Newman	Dave Edwards (2)	17-14	Marcella Connolly	Keith Maloney
11	Kicking	Andrew Newman	Ger Slattery (3)	16-17	Seán Adair (2)	Liam Newman
12	Life	Andrew Newman	Dave Edwards (3)	11-15	Seán Adair (3)	Pat McLoughlin
13	Christmas	Andrew Newman	Evelyn O’Connor	13-9	Marcella Connolly	Tommy O’Connor (2)
14	Money	Andrew Newman	Aidan Long (2)	19-13	Marcella Connolly	Chris Bye (2)
15	New Year	Andrew Newman	Robert Cox	16-13	Marcella Connolly	Ger Slattery (4)
16	Orange	Andrew Newman	Keith Healy	13-18	Marcella Connolly	Anne McLoughlin (2)
17	Pirates	Andrew Newman	Seán Adair (4)	7-10	Marcella Connolly	Lorraine Murphy
18	Quizzes	Andrew Newman	Holly Bruinette	8-16	Marcella Connolly	Ger Slattery (5)
19	Religion	Andrew Newman	Aidan Long (3)	12-7	Marcella Connolly	Luke O’Malley
20	Secrets	Andrew Newman	Tommy O’Connor (3)	11-5	Marcella Connolly	Ruth Kelly
21	Transport	Andrew Newman	Seán Adair (5)	23-4	Marcella Connolly	Lorraine Murphy (2)
22	Up	Seán Adair (6)	Annette Adair (2)	12-10	Marcella Connolly	Rob McConnell (2)
23	Video	Andrew Newman	Aidan Long (4)	10-14	Marcella Connolly	Dave Edwards (4)
24	Water	Andrew Newman	Ger Slattery (6)	19-10	Marcella Connolly	Kathy Burke
25	X-ray	Andrew Newman	Luke O’Malley (2)	14-8	Marcella Connolly	Vinny O’Loughlin (3)
26	Yellow	Andrew Newman	Roderick Maguire	14-21	Marcella Connolly	Micheál Coyne
27	Zero	Andrew Newman	Aidan Long (5)	13-15	Marcella Connolly	Rob McConnell (3)
28	Easter	Andrew Newman		9-5	Marcella Connolly
				14½-13½

Records:

Most guest appearances: 6 (Seán Adair*** and Ger Slattery)
Highest winning score: 23 (Andrew Newman and Seán Adair, show 21)
Highest losing score: 16 (Andrew Newman and Ger Slattery, show 11)
Lowest winning score: 9 (Andrew Newman and Seán Adair, show 8 )

Footnotes:

* Andrew Newman competed on his own in this show.
** After a count back, this show was declared a draw. After the fact, if you will.
*** Three appearances as stand-in captain.