Ep 443: Rob Fischer, Joseph Liebhaber (May 9, 2012)

Rounds: Here.


When Rob proposed, he did so at the cinema.  He had a slide made up popping the question, and organised with the cinema to have it shown prior to the movie.  Rob went down on one knee when the slide came up, and happily she said yes.  (The movie was The World's Fastest Indian, incidentally.)

Tonight's challenger is taxi driver Joseph Liebhaber.  Joseph is keen on space, although he would not want to travel there -- he thinks that doing so is more the province of robots.  But he is enthusiastic about astronomy; he says that it is a field that is changing, and he finds it interesting keeping up with all the new discoveries.  When he was a small boy he learned what was known about Mars and Venus; he says that "really nobody knew anything".  Since that time, though, we have learned so much and keep on doing so; he finds it absolutely fascinating.


I'm afraid this game simply wasn't close; three of Joseph's letters rounds were invalid, and the numbers rounds were too easy to challenge either contestant.  Rob found longer words in the other two letters rounds -- including a full monty -- and with neither solving the conundrum the final score was 75 to 30 in Rob's favour.

I was cruising along comfortably thanks to two good letters rounds at the start, but thereafter was not able to extend my lead over Rob.  I missed the full monty -- I found a contentious eight instead -- and suddenly Rob was two points in the lead.  That persisted until the conundrum, and he buzzed in first; fortunately for me his guess was invalid, and I managed to get the solution just in the nick of time to scrape home the victor.  It really does demonstrate the power of the full monty to upset everything!