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That is a brilliantly self-congratulatory Wikipedia page. Interesting that “he” won various things, with his teams almost mentioned as an afterthought, and yet once you take him out of a team he’s not so good. Almost as if he was being carried by the others.
If you put me in a 5 man quiz team with 4 people who knew the answers to every question asked then I’d probably do quite well.
HI Oxy - just a suggestion for next time - it looked like you knew some of the specialist round answers before he finished - you could interrupt and give the correct answer before he finshed, might get an extra point or two out of the round - he could hardly complain, could he now?
Best
Al
Stainer's page contained this total gem, reproduced here for your delight:
"After trouncing the opposition in the first round of the very first Cleverdicks[5] show he was an unlucky victim of the format in the next round."
A. Victim. Of. The. Format.
That is brilliant. Beautiful. Absolute get-out-of-all-situations masterpiece.
Presumably in Mastermind he was a victim of the format whereby the person with the most correct answers wins the round?
Mr Stainer walked confidently, and at some speed, into the entrance of the Grande Casino, stepping onto the entrance rug which, being unsecured, propelled him reluctantly across the lobby before depositing him in a disorganised and embarrassed heap at the foot of the Reception Desk.
He had become a victim of the floor mat.
@ Silly bugger: I expect it is something absolutely hilarious like "Speciality Chemicals Magazine" Ahahahahah!
oh shit
Yeah - what is your next specialist subject going to be, Oxy?
(Of course, as a wind-up, you could choose "European Football Championships 1980 to current date". If they didn't allow that, you could choose something different but sufficiently similar to make it obvious that you were taking the piss.)
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