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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2005/2006 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2005/2006 |
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This page provides a week-by-week summary of the 2005/06 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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02/10/05 |
Fixture list is posted - 11 teams as per previous season - Message Board introduced to the website
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19/10/05 |
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26/10/05 |
QotW all about George IV, General Charles Napier and Major General Sir Henry Havelock being joined by a woman - Fr M gloats over FCEK notching a rare victory over Ethel Rodin |
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02/11/05 |
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09/11/05 |
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16/11/05 |
QotW broaches that hoary old quizzing favourite: the 'double landlocked countries' question - Fifth Finger set and include the most boring question of all time concerning the age of newsreader Huw Edwards |
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23/11/05 |
Controversy over who really is the 'Father of the House' (Skinner or Williams) - QotW about the chorus of a Battisti and Fish number - Fr M's sounding off about 'E' words |
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30/11/05 |
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07/12/05 |
QotW provokes memories of early TV westerns - Fr M reveals that even 'Kieran's lot' are human as his own FCEK sweep them aside in a table top duel at the Griffin - Tony announces that Snoopy's are henceforth using The Didsbury as their home venue |
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14/12/05 |
For a change there's no QotW but instead a vote for a whole round and the way its theme was executed - After the highs of the previous week when they beat Fifth Finger FCEK lose to the History Men and Fr M delivers a terse 74 second post-match statement |
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04/01/06 |
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11/01/06 |
A great paper from FCEK with QotW featuring Gerry's Latin translation of a 1960s song including the lyrics: "Fumus draco magus, incoluit mare. Lusit autumnal'illic, maritimo hanalo." - WithQuiz ponders entering a team for an audition to appear on the Eggheads TV quiz show |
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18/01/06 |
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25/01/06 |
QotW celebrates one of Churchill's famous 'put down' quotes - More details of the new monthly Albert Club quiz and news also of a Francis House charity quiz at the Fletcher Moss - Mad Dogs just pip the Opsimaths to remain at the top of the table |
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01/02/06 |
Fr M coins a new word, 'dimpressive', to describe the Stadium of Murk - The Pigs give us a cracking paper with a QotW which includes one of those staple quiz question formats: 'the 3-in-a-row dictionary definitions' |
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08/02/06 |
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15/02/06 |
Mad Dogs set - Chile's, Ghana's and Romania's population levels come under scrutiny - QotW concerns unemployed bricklayer Giuseppe Zangara and his outburst |
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22/02/06 |
QotW about the star of a film that included a matutinal call - Albert Club monthly quiz Brainbreaker prize is up to £20 |
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01/03/06 |
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08/03/06 |
ore correspondence from website visitors about the accuracy of some of the answers given in our papers; this time from a Jon Gilbert and a Ronnie Mayes - QotW about the fictional identity of Eric Twinge - Father Megson's on about a photo-finish at the Stadium of Murk |
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15/03/06 |
QotW about a country whose flag has reversed its horse - Father M ponders over a battle of Moor Marstons at the Stadium of Murk - John Holden writes in from the Stockport League offering his views on their league's question appeals procedure |
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22/03/06 |
The Mad Dogs wrap up the league title yet again - QotW from the Opsimaths' paper is about 3 rhyming answers - another plug for the monthly social quiz evening at the Albert Club now into its third month |
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29/03/06 |
A snapshot of the final league table showing the Mad Dogs out in front with FCEK in second position; plus last years' table to show how teams have improved or otherwise - QotW is another 'which 3 consecutive dictionary definitions' type question - Father M sums up the whole season by going through his Bootleg Tapes |
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05/04/06 |
Val Draper Cup competition kicks off - QotW about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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12/04/06 |
More Cup matches and the first round of the Plate starts - Mad Dogs get beaten by Ethel Rodin - QotW about a Prince killed by a cricket ball |
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26/04/06 |
More Cup and Plate matches with the Dogs beaten yet again - QotW celebrates the link between Robin Hood, Ronald Reagan and John Lennon | ||
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03/05/06 |
QotW concerns the activities of one, Marcus Samuel, in the Caspian Sea in 1892 - the Plate ties trundle on with wins for Ethel Rodin, Albert Park and the Mad Dogs | ||
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10/05/06 |
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Plate matches with wins for Albert Park and the Mad Dogs - QotW
about a couple of US Presidents who died on the same day |
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24/05/06 |
Wins for the Pigs in the Cup and the Mad Dogs in the Plate - the Pigs last gasp win on the tiebreaker followed the legendary Dave McColm 'Tosca' moment which attracted the immortal website headline 'Oh Lordi what a Finnish!' - QotW about the only English monarch to have died in neither France nor England - Fr M celebrates the 'Tosca' moment in his column 'Jumping off the Battlements into Glory' | ||
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31/05/06 |
Another season laid to rest at the Albert Club with an excellent social quiz set by Gerry Hennessy and delivered by John Tolan with Albert Park and the History Men running out as joint winners - the Mad Dogs win the 'Question of the Season' award with their 'double landlocked' question |
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QotW
about a certain William Mudge - Plenty of info. about the Lonesome
Death of Hattie Carroll
Results
feature a rarity: a couple of ties - QotW about a film that
Hitchcock made twice latterly starring James Stewart and Doris Day -
Fr M offers up a pastoral letter
Fr
M is on about the 'F' word but is thwarted by the webmaster - QotW
recalls the day John Peel was treated to a mushroom biryani in
return for a record spin - very popular paper from Albert Park
QotW
about Dickens - Another victory for Fifth Finger - Paper from the
Opsimaths with a novelty: a picture round of faces that had already
appeared elsewhere in questions or answer sin earlier rounds - Fifth
Finger change their name mid-season to 'Three Mad Dogs and a Cherry'
Albert
set a picture round with 2 Jesuses in it - QotW about Neasden's
famous goalkeeper - Fr M says "Just
the cheese, love - I won't risk the Danish bacon this week" 
QotW
about chemistry for a change - Overtures from our neighbours, The
Stockport Quiz League - Website visitor, Colin Shaw, writes in
taking Snoopy's to task over some duff information in an earlier
quiz paper they produced