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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2006/2007 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2006/2007 |
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This page provides a week-by-week summary of the 2006/07 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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18/10/06 |
Sadly St Caths scratch from the league after a long and illustrious past - Plenty of tributes on the message board for St Caths - QotW is one of those 'dictionary definition trio' teasers - Napier Girls start the new season with an inevitable victory against Ethel in a WithQuiz 'all girls affair' |
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25/10/06 |
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01/11/06 |
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08/11/06 |
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29/11/06 |
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06/12/06 |
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13/12/06 |
Fr Megson thinks Clement Attlee a far better prime minister than Tony Blair - QotW wants to know what Fagan, Wenger and Armfield have in common |
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03/01/07 |
Father Megson and the stand-in Webmaster make impassioned pleas for WithQuizzers to use the message board and get some comments and feedback from everybody - QotW raises the question of Bonzery from a pretty low-scoring Snoopy's paper |
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10/01/07 |
Gerry Hennessy sets a cracking paper - the Message Board bursts into life after last week's pleas from Fr M and the Webmaster - QotW links Salford Boy's Club, Bury Hospice, Virgin Megastores and Robert Owen |
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17/01/07 |
John Dennison signs off his brief spell as stand-in Webmaster - QotW challenges quizzers to name the actors who have played Wyatt Earp on the big screen |
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24/01/07 |
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31/01/07 |
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07/02/07 |
The top two teams (the Girls and the Men) returned to the fray, both winning - Meanwhile the dogfight lower down continues to ebb and flow - QotW asks about Donegal's borders - Fr M in praise of the Opsimaths' 'Trip round Manchester Pubs' Round |
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14/02/07 |
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21/02/07 |
Away teams win all the matches -
QotW demands to know who will be monarch if the initial 464 in the
line of succession all drop dead at the same time - The Girls march on at the top
of the table |
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28/02/07 |
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07/03/07 |
To all intents and purposes tonight's results seal the league title in favour of the Girls - QotW about a quote from one of Sheridan Morley's biographical subjects - Everyone's sad to hear that Mike Heale is unwell and in Wythenshawe Hospital - Fr M reports on some Galway love |
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14/03/07 |
News that a new team (The Men They Couldn't Hang) are joining us next season - QotW about something that proliferates in London (especially in Westminster) - Father M ponders on Slaughterhouse Five |
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21/03/07 |
Bizarrely Snoopy's want to know where two-thirds of the world's vanilla comes from - Father M (along with everyone else) welcomes the news that The Men They Couldn't Hang are joining the WithQuiz club |
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28/03/07 |
A Guest paper from John Tolan (formerly of Ethel Rodin) with a QotW about Captain Cuttle, Cardinal Beaufort and Sir Peter Teazle - Overtures from the Stockport Quiz League for an interleague competition with us next season - Father M gets an email from Dusty |
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04/04/07 |
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11/04/07 |
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18/04/07 |
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25/04/07 |
Ethel set a great paper for the Plate semi finals - QotW about the hero of The White Fokker - More thoughts of a cosying up between WithQuiz and the Stockport League | ||
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01/05/07 |
 Napier
Girls win the Val Draper Cup - 2 FCEKs win the Plate - QotW wants
teams to identify which of Fr Megson's organs is 12 fingerbreadths
in length! |
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16/05/07 |
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Opsimaths win the award for the 'Round of the Season' with their
Manchester Pub Crawl Round - John Tolan wins the Question of the
Season award for his 'Captain Cuttle' question - Gerry Hennessy sets
the evening's quiz - More details of the interleague competitions
planned for next year with the Stockport League |
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The
extraordinary case of 'the WithQuiz hand that sunk the Bismarck'
comes to light - QotW about staging an ascent of the Andes - Fr M
returns from his summer sojourn wondering whether Rousseau was
really talking about the new fashion for Coffee Shop chains
Fr M declares a crisis for his 2 FCEKs team as
they get defeated by the Opsimaths - QotW goes unusually to a whole
Round - the Webmaster declares he is off to Australia to watch the
Ashes
QotW all about the contribution to great
English culture made by W M Baker, Caroline Alice, G R Sinclair and
Winifred Norbury - John Dennison puts himself forward as temporary
Webmaster while Mike Bath gets stuffed in Oz over the winter
Fr M waxes lyrical about the amazing variety
of crisps and pork scratchings on sale at the Albert Club - QotW is
all about the contribution to statistics made by a 19th century
nurse
QotW about the dimensions of a piece of
sporting equipment - In a once in a lifetime event the Opsimaths
murder the Napier Girls at the Albert Club; every underdog may have
its day!
John
Dennison starts his regime as temporary Webmaster while Mike Bath
wings off to Oz - Fr M looks forward to the Year 3000 and also takes
the opportunity to take the Mickey out of the departed Webmaster -
QotW another of the 'dictionary definition trio' types
QotW
all about fake blood and the London A to Z - Fr M sends a postcard
from Germany that leaves everybody baffled
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M waxes lyrical about the Good Old Days (when horses used to gamble
in pubs it seems) - a great QotW asking for the first country to
gain independence in the 21st century - Mike Bath returns to
Webmaster duties from a great trip down under watching English
cricket go up in smoke
Napier
Girls set the paper and include an intriguing picture round with
distorted photos to identify - great 'levelling week' in the league
with the bottom 3 teams notching up victories
All round low-scoring
in a theme-dominated evening - The Girls just beat their
rivals, 2 FCEKs, at the Griffin and are now pretty much
unassailable at the top of the table - QotW about Procul Harum's
Whiter Shade of Pale's authorship - Opsimath new boy, Howell,
gives his 'Trip Advisor' verdict on the WithQuiz venues with The Sun
in September winning and The White Swan and The Griffin equal second
Ethel
Rodin clock up the longest QotW so far with a poser about the 19th
century John Rowlands - Fr Megson has quit the Reeks
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Men They Couldn't Hang join the fray by taking part in the Cup and
getting well and truly stuffed by 2 FCEKs - Adolf Fick and his
invention feature in QotW - Feedback required for the idea of a
joint competition next season with the Stockport League
The
idea of a joint competition with the Stockport League to start in
the 2007/08 season gathers some head of steam - TMTCH nominate the
QotW which asks why John Cage's silent piece is exactly 4 minutes 33
seconds long
QotW
about who has been nominated for acting Oscars in every decade since
the 1960s (apart from Jack Nicholson) - Ideas for changes in the
modus operandi of the league are aired such as ensuring teams don't
get the same setters in the second half of the season as they did in
the first half of the season when they play each other in return
matches