Mistakes on a plane?
November 11, 2012 in EQC, Quizzes
Let’s hope not. I’m writing to you now from about 20,000 feet, or whatever height Ryanair cruise at. Alas, due to flight schedules, the three of us who departed Dublin at 6am on Friday, Padraic, Derek and myself, are now homeward-bound on Sunday morning. Only David and Lorcan remain in Tartu to wear the green jersey in the Pairs event.
Day 2 in Tartu (assonance?) was a very busy one for the Irish competitors. It began at 10am with the Individual Quiz, in the main hall.
You could say each round in that quiz is general knowledge. You’d be more accurate though if you said each round is completely specific knowledge. There’s very little general knowledge here. For example, a question in round 6, asking for the name of the religious depictions of Jesus and the holy family in the Eastern Orthodox Church, stood out like a sore thumb. It was a bit easy.*
Anyway, I outlined how we got on in yesterday’s post so let’s move on to the afternoon’s exciting event: Ireland’s first foray into knockout quizzing.
After the qualifier round of the Nations Cup, the top eight teams play out semi-finals (as in, 1-4 go for the main title and 5-8 try to get to the Plate final). Similarly, the top eight teams in the Aspirational Cup (B teams etc and ad-hoc teams) have semi-finals and I actually got to MC one of these on Friday night.
This is a bit of an anomaly but the teams who finished 9th and 10th in the Nations Cup qualifier also get to have a knockout quiz. This year, these teams were Germany and Ireland. Read the rest of this entry →
