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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2004/2005 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2004/2005 |
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This page provides a week-by-week summary of the 2004/05 season with links to each week's QuizBiz article and Question paper. It also provides access to the season's Fixtures list from which you can link to the final League table, final Inter-team results grid and Photos from the end of season presentation evening. Follow the season-by-season links below to access similar archive material for other seasons. For the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 seasons neither QuizBiz articles nor Question papers have been retained - but you can access what archive material remains directly from the links below. Season 2020/21 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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| 05/10/04 | Preparations for the new season underway - Stumped have dropped out - The Brains have renamed themselves FCEK and moved to the White Swan in Ladybarn | ||
| 13/10/04 |
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| 20/10/04 |
QotW about the simple, the wise, the foolish, etc. - Fr M has a go at The Opsimaths' knack of letting matches slip away from them |
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| 27/10/04 |
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| 03/11/04 |
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| 10/11/04 |
QotW about POTUS and FLOTUS - Fr Megson has left the building (or so he says) |
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| 17/11/04 |
Altercation at the White Swan where a drunken siren mistakes Fr M for George Best - QotW about the inventor of the Manhattan cocktail - Fr M sends a letter from the Baltics |
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| 24/11/04 |
QotW about an initial Hampshire murder |
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| 01/12/04 |
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| 08/12/04 |
QotW about what a latter-day Dick Turpin used to half-inch from his hapless victims - Ethel Rodin forsake the Red Lion in favour of the White Swan - Fr M writes of Cabbages and Queens following a stuffing at the hands of Albert Park |
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| 15/12/04 |
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| 05/01/05 |
Back from the Christmas break with a QotW about Artie Shaw's many wives |
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| 12/01/05 |
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| 19/01/05 |
Excellent paper from Ethel Rodin - a number of closely fought matches in perhaps the most entertaining quiz evening for some time - QotW goes all cryptic about yellow, purple and green - RoÍsin (of FCEK) fails to identify the port at the mouth of the Shannon and all hell breaks loose with limericks being composed by budding poets across the league |
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| 26/01/05 |
Copland Smith (from Stumped) wins the Limerick competition launched the previous week with his memorable 'RoÍsin/OÍsin/NoÍsin' verse - QotW goes all mathematical about the Premiership - Fr M declares he's not for turning |
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| 02/02/05 |
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| 09/02/05 |
Both WithQuiz entrants for the right to compete against the Eggheads had their audition this week; results yet to be communicated - QotW about a North American country losing its independence in 1949 |
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| 16/02/05 |
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| 23/02/05 |
QotW links an Oscar-winning actress and an English novelist - The final Limerick trickles in from a Mr J Tolan: The learned recorder of X / Had very small organs of sex. / When charged with exposure, / He replied with composure / "De minimis non curat lex" |
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| 02/03/05 |
Des De Moaner has a pop at Stickle Tarn - QotW about chess - Fr M tells us how his team always takes the flak |
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| 09/03/05 |
QotW about football songs - Intimations that someone in the WithQuiz fold has won a shedload of dosh on a TV programme - Cambridge and coconuts also featured |
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| 16/03/05 |
Fifth Finger clinch the league crown (again) - Des De Moaner has gripes about monarchs - Fr M reflects on St Patrick's day - QotW about Babbacombe Lee's execution at Exeter - a website reader writes in with thanks |
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| 23/03/05 |
League campaign comes to a close - Webmaster review of the league season's highlights - QotW about US States and their capitals - Looking forward to the Cup competition starting next week |
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| 06/04/05 |
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| 13/04/05 |
Pater Megfilius celebrates Dave Rainford's Millionaire win with a brilliant eulogy written entirely in Latin - QotW about newsreaders and lesbians |
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| 20/04/05 | Dave Rainford writes in thanking everybody for their support and friendship during his harrowing experience winning Millionaire and then deciding what to do with his £250,000 haul - QotW about a Rio suburb | ||
| 27/04/05 | Father M is wrestling with his cat - QotW concerns anagrammatical capitals - and speaking of anagrams Ethel Rodin get some helpful options should they chose to change their name for the coming season (Idle Hornet? The Rod Line? Enid Tholer?) | ||
| 04/05/05 | Fifth Finger complete the double beating FCEK to win the Val Draper Cup - QotW about a politician who thinks he's a glow-worm | ||
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11/05/05 |
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QotW
about adding up - Death of Stumped's Big Eddie announced - Fr Megson
publishes his celebrated Rough Guide to Ladybarn to help
teams navigate to FCEK's new home venue
QotW
asks about flying up to the sky - Memories of an ex-WithQuizzer
(John Jackson) who fled to Norfolk - Thrills and spills aplenty from
Fr M
Fr
Megson is in hiding - QotW concerns a quote from Nicholas Soames
QotW
about a chap called Pitkin - Fr Megson is in need of a topless
bus for his team down in Ladybarn
QotW
about flogging a piece of toast on eBay - a Christmas card from Fr M
Fifth
Finger set - QotW about Hindle Wakes - A couple of WithQuiz teams
are to be entered to a competition to find suitable teams to contest
the Eggheads on TV
Des
De Moaner makes his bow - QotW about albino cachalots - Fr Megson
chronicles a quiet night down in Ladybarn - the lyrics of Mr
Tambourine Man get quoted in full
Tony
returns to rejoin Snoopy's after a spell away sorting out the law -
QotW about a US vice president's appendage
Everybody
celebrates Dave Rainford's Who Wants to be a Millionaire win
- Sad news of the death of Bernard Brannen long time Fletcher Moss
QM and confidant of Mrs Merton - QotW asks about As You Like It
- and Fr M asks 'Wot's A Gel To Do?
End
of season evening Special awards as: