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Running down the long stretch of pitch, it's a closer on the end of the series and thankfully, not too soon. Kids and strangers now posing questions such as when the next batch of primary schoolers will again challenge answers against questions read out by host Sandra Sully. Who knows. Stop asking.
Lengthy introductions greet the cricket players from various stages in sporting glory and misfortune. Histories on the field and anecdotes taking quite a lot of empty space time, but a rather economic play nonetheless.
Graciously enough for the players and contestants, a starter to the night begins with the autobiography of one of their own. Not all are in tune, one choosing to black light on the answer. Others remain fairly within reach as the trotting out is kept to a low.
Damien Fleming, Rodney Hogg and Kim Hughes fail just to notch on through the first round of sporting cliches and take a warmer on the benches "back at the pavilion."
Colin "Funky" Miller leads out in the second, taking both Sport and Pot Luck to lock 7 then 18 total on the scoreboard. Geoff Lawson edges over and steals a bail with 19 coming from Science and Geography. Greg Blewett appears hard of hearing and leans in heavier than the rest to collect 8 over Music, 6 of which coming from Food and Drink.
Ray Bright hits a streak on Current Affairs at 7 only to come undone at History with 3. Paul Reiffel shoots hard on both engines, TV and Film nailing sixes on both ends. Greg Matthews, barely able to see over his podium cleans out the board with Natural World and Literature to score a boundary and 6.
Six and out for Matthews, along with Blewett and Bright along for drinks. At this point it appears as if the references to cricket all but die down. Largely. Forgettable anyhow.
Thanks to an all nighter calling Miller "Funky" Miller, nicknames take the game as Henry Lawson and Pistol Paul battle in the final rounds. Lawson opts for Optometry as Reiffel runs with Richmond Football Club and Miller takes on American Baseball.
Lawson blows out on knowing where to study optometry and gets it hard from the others, wondering just where he schooled in the eyeball trade. Babe Ruth appears in a lot of the answers in American Baseball, only working once to effect. Short of stringing it out longer than they have, the win goes to Reiffel, donating his prize money to The Royal Children's Hospital.
Monday, 10 April 2006 - 15:54
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