Mastermind 2020/2021 - Heat 5

 

 

Mastermind 2020/2021

Heat 5

 

A little delayed on this as I’m playing catch up, but Heat 5 of Mastermind 2020 lined up like this…

 

-        Edana Guest

-     Alex Hardwick

-     Annabelle Dunwoody

-     Jeremy Sullivan

 

 

At the end of the specialist round the standings were as follows

 

Alex Hardwick	Rachamanioff	10
Edana Guest	Vanessa Bell	9
Jeremy Sullivan	David Bowie	8
Annabelle Dunwoody	Sherlock	6

A much more diverse mix of subjects this week than in some of the previous heats in this edition.

Annabelle strode up to the chair first to take this weeks General Knowledge round. A solid GK round was needed to apply pressure on the other contestants  and the round looked promising early on with Annabelle settling into the round well. A stumble on a question on Battleships began a spiral of wrong answers that slowed the scoring. At the end of the round Annabelle had reached 16, a respectable score.

Jeremy Sullivan next and early on a question on the scientific name for Sugar seemed to produce a halt. Its one of those questions you feel you should know, but under the pressure of the lights I imagine the pressure mounts when the answers doesn’t come straight away. The scoring continued and Jeremy notched up points on all manner of subjects but time was against him and he ended the round matching Annabelles 16.

 

Edana next and needing 8 points to take the lead it looked good early on but the questions seemed not to suit her and the on the whole, a lot of 50/50s seemed to go the wrong way but a after the buzzer answer on Kalasnikov meant Edana had done enough to take the league and give Alex a target.

 

Alex needed 8 to progress and after questions on Love Island, Teeth Grinding and The Help Alex fell into the nightmare we all would fear going on the show of a string of wrong answers on the GK round. A selection of highbrow questions meant Alex got back on track but the set included not only a few stinkers, but also a few questions so long that by the end I had forgotten what was being asked! (An issue with I imagine is 10-fold worse in the chair). Despite this Alex was within reach as the timer ticked down and had an after-the-buzzer question about 1980s pop (The Communards) which proved costly. With head in hands, Alex knew the third 16 of the round wasn’t enough and congratulations go to Edana who took the victory and moved onto the Semi Final.

 

Contestant	Specialist Subject	SS	GK	Total
Edana Guest	Vanessa Bell	9	8	17
Alex Hardwick	Rachmaninoff	10	6	16
Jeremy Sullivan	David Bowie	8	8	16
Annabelle Dunwoody	Sherlock	6	10	16

 

And the current season leader board now looks like this…

Contestant	Total
Frankie Franko	27 (w)
Tom Lee	21 (w)
Emma Haley	21
Sally Wilson	21
Steve Goddard	20 (w)
Jane McDonnell	20
Jacqueline Jones	19 (w)
Poppy Mckenzie Smith	19
Andrew Fortyish	18
Ikenna Oguguo	18
Edana Guest	17 (w)
Adrian Segens	17
Alex Hardwick	16
Annabelle Dunwoody	16
Dani Cugini	16
Jeremy Sullivan	16
Kitty Grant	16
Jonathan Sargant	15
Cecil Morgan	14
Peter Almond	14

 *the (w) indicates that score won the heat

        Series Records 

·                  Highest GK Total – Frankie Franko – 15

·                  Highest SS Total – Frankie Franko – 12

·                  Highest Scoring Heat – Heat 1 – (Tom Lee, Sally Wilson, Emma Haley, Adrian Segens) – 80

·                  Highest scoring combined GK heat – Heat 2– (Frankie Franko, Cecil Morgan, Ikenna Oguguo, Dani Cugini)  and Heat 3 (Steve Goddard, Jane McDonnell, Poppy Mckenzie Smith and Andrew Forsyth)  - 41