Articles by Quiz Master John

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CLASH OF THE TITANS Leaving his usual haunts-a cricket or hockey pitch, John Dewhurst took time out to spend a raw night in Hull as the two best sides in RL2020 settled the Grand Final and thus many quizzers’ fates. “Forget Real Madrid / Barcelona, Celtic/Rangers etc. this is THE [ … click here to read more … ]

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How much have you enjoyed your Covid sport viewing? I can’t do rugby or football, killed stone dead by the empty stands. Test match cricketers scrambling into the stands to retrieve the ball felt wrong; I preferred the radio. This week’s ATP tennis finals has been my best TV sport [ … click here to read more … ]

TURNING THE KEY 38)Ian Cole reports from Perth in Western Australia on Aussie rules season. I see no mention of Reading’s cheerful start in the championship. Has he gone over to the convicts’ side? Amid some World crisis going on, a place called “Straya” and a game called Aussie Rules [ … click here to read more … ]

Attached a quiz update on three further predictions, from our correspondents in West Australia and Texaswho have obviously gone native.The three answers have produced a new leaderbut thirty plus quizzers are still in the hunt for gigantic prizes. For those with less lofty ambitions, the website is up to date [ … click here to read more … ]

The last weekend of Six Nations games saw England, Ireland and France all with a chance of being crowned champions. No fans and wild weather increased the ‘soulessness’ of the weekend. Certainly if one watched Wales v Scotland with the first ten lineouts ‘not straight’ and twenty knock ons inside [ … click here to read more … ]

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CARRY ON REGARDLESS 9)Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei won the London marathon by more than three minutes from her closest pursuer but Brigid finished MORE than 100 seconds outside the time limit set in the quiz question. How come the world’s finest woman marathon runner could crush the opposition but leave [ … click here to read more … ]