Ep 139: Samuel Hastings, Colwyn Buckland (July 12, 2016; originally aired February 10, 2011)

Rounds: Here.


Samuel Hastings is back for his third night.  The pre-game chat is essentially just that Samuel has a lot of hobbies, and a lot of unfinished projects as a result.

Tonight's challenger is Colwyn Buckland, who works for a national stationery supply company, and also has a love of the stage.  That turns out to be as an actor -- Colwyn and a group of his friends are in an independent theatre company called the Theatre of Rats.  Richard asks about the origins of that unusual name; Colwyn indicates that it is an inside joke from school, but also an acknowledgement that most of them don't have money, so are working from the ground up.  They have had one performance at the Brisbane Festival, a group-devised piece called Papyrophobia in Yellow.


There was very little to choose between the contestants tonight -- they had equal-scoring answers in seven of the eight main rounds.  The crucial break came in round six, when Samuel navigated the numbers better than Colwyn did, allowing him to take a seven point lead into the conundrum.  Colwyn buzzed in first, but did not have the answer, and that was game to Samuel, 58 to 51.