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Congrats to Concert Pub and Jilly's for a superior performance on a game that gave us fits.

Congrats, too, the the Showdown content team for making the games more difficult to Google of late. It was an excellently-worded final question last night.

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Anon
"He may seem like Mr. Rogers but a dark spirit lies beneath."

Absent a full recap, does anyone know remember the questions in the Pyramid Round and/or Final? I was alone at the bar and got swamped right after the Lightning Round.

They're only "excellently-worded" when I know the answer.

<sigh>

Agreed, a well written game.

We had no clue on final and only two boxes got full credit. Saying that, we should be happy to finish where we did.

BO

To pick a nit, as it were, is it right to say the category is "English Poets" and then ask which of these guys is Scottish?

Or did they mean that Scots write their poetry in the English language? And is that the language they use? Really? I can't understand a word of it. Nae, laddie.

It is a nit, but it should have been "British Poets".

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BUBBA
Blue Goose Sports Cafe

The category was indeed "British Poets". I think my teammates felt we might have an edge with that category, I being a limey, and a pretty well-educated one at that, but I dampened their enthusiasm before the question came up and was instantly vindicated. Only two of the names (Masefield and Gray) were familiar at all. I was unaware of a single James Thomson, let alone two.

Fortunately we had already blown the game in Pyramid, so it didn't matter.

At the Concert Pub we had Doc saying he thought the only Scottish poet up there was Thomson so we went with him. He also had not heard of a second poet with that last name.

We also lost a lot of points by dithering on this; I had never heard of either James Thomson, but should have got it faster, as all the others were obviously English poets. I think the other two were Philip Sidney and William Blake.
Not wishing anyone ill, but there was some schadenfreude in seeing so many of the greats come up with scores like what we mortals usually get! Congratulations to all that did manage to keep their scores near the top.

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Wayne Neily
Tremont, Kings Co., N. S.

"What mighty contests rise from trivial things!" - Alexander Pope, 1712.

"Beauty is truth, and truth beauty", John Keats, 1820.

we found the last two rounds brutal.

I thought BT was digging up obscure British poets, but I believe the entire world has heard one James Thomson poem or at least the music it was set to.

Rule Britannia

When Britain first, at Heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sung this strain:
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall:
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful, from each foreign stroke:
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame:
All their attempts to bend thee down,
Will but arouse thy generous flame;
But work their woe, and thy renown.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

To thee belongs the rural reign;
Thy cities shall with commerce shine:
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair:
Blest isle! with matchless beauty crown'd,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

James Thomson

Now that is a piece of trivia I will never forget.

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Frank

If only....!! Blake and Sidney would have made it a lot easier. Choice #5 had the name Howard in it. #4 was Masefield and #2 Gray. #3 was another name I was unfamiliar with. Guess we'll find out next Tuesday when BLUMAX posts his recap.

William Blake was one of the answers in the Brainbuster game, I think. Choice 3 was Sidney, though. It was the one left on the screen alongside the correct answer at the Goose. We didn't know it at first, and I switched to the correct answer when my initial choice got wiped out (I don't remember what that one was), since I remembered Sidney as a contemporary of Shakespeare and not Scottish. Some people at our place didn't get it switched in time.

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BUBBA
Blue Goose Sports Cafe