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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2012/2013 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2012/2013 |
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This page provides a week-by-week summary of the 2012/13 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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New League starts Wednesday October 3rd with pre-season friendly September 26th |
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01/05/13 |
 The Charas win
the Val Draper; Meat Raffle clean up the Plate - QotW all about
voiceover star, Jim Pope |
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08/05/13 |
 The Bards take
the WIST Champions Cup after extra time - QotW about what flows from
the Daer and the Portrail |
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22/05/13 |
 The
Charas win the Question of the Season award with their memorable
'Reading' question - Mike Wagstaffe presents the End of Season
evening quiz - Presentations to our trusty regular QMs |
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After a two year
break Stockport regain the WIST Cup
Off we go with
the Pigs soaring to the heights first time round - QotW concerns
Music teacher Gordon Lowther
Opsimaths go top;
Bards lose to the Fairies; Acronyms United get off the mark as CMR
and TMTCH both win - An Irish Stout man fills the QotW slot this
week - Overtures from the Quiz League of London
Opsimaths stay
top pursued by the usual suspects; plus the slightly less usual The
Men They Couldn't Hang - Fr M returns with a view from the window of
the Ladybarn Charabanc - News of former WithQuizzers
Allan Stores and John Jackson - QotW tells the tale of
Jack Judge and the Stalybridge statue
Albert and Ethel
notch their first victories of the season; the usual suspects occupy
the top 3 places - QotW about the Danny Boy tune - WithQuiz declines
an invitation to join a National Quiz League
Fairies keep
their 100% record; Bards and Charas tie; Opsimaths crash at home
to Ethel - Know any 57 year old jazz pianists from Sweden?
Well, then QotW is for you
The Fairies keep
their 100% record intact and stay top with The Opsimaths in hot
pursuit - QotW about divine marine biologists
History Men,
Smoke Fairies and The Bards (WithQuiz), and Chunky (Stockport) go through
in this year's WIST Champion's Cup - Big John from America features
in QotW
Wins for the
Prodigals, Bards, Fairies, History Men and, in an upset to the form book, TMTCH
- QotW about rudenesses in the Canterbury Tales
Wins for The
Bards, The Charas, The Fairies, The Opsimaths and Ethel - QotW about
the demise of a popular schoolboy magazine - Fr M checks
his postbag
Opsimaths &
Charas
(3rd and 4th in the table) slug it out for a
tie; above them The Fairies and The Bards widen the gap with
convincing wins - British Army Standard Rations from WW1 come in for
the QotW treatment - Father M is "Looking through a
plate glass darkly"
CMR wreak
havoc with their paper as The Fairies, Opsimaths and Charas all fall; whilst the Bards just cling on for a tie
- QotW reminds everybody of A Christmas Carol as
per the Muppets
Victories
for the Fairies, the Bards, Ethel, History Men and
Albert to kick-start 2013 - The first screened flushing
toilet dominates QotW - Fr M takes a sideways view from
the fiscal rocks
The World record
for tied quiz matches in M20 tumbles as Albert and TMTCH clock up
the 4th of the season - QotW about 
Form book comes
good as the Fairies, Bards, Ethel, Albert and Opsimaths all win -
QotW about alexia in Berkshire
Tonight's
plaudits go to the Bards for notching up the first ever score to top 60
- and to the Meat Raffle for their long-deserved second victory of
the season - QotW about Wardley Hall
Topsy-turvy time
as the Bards lose to Ethel and the Fairies tie with Meat Raffle -
QotW manages to connect 
Yet another tie;
the Bards and Fairies win; Meat Raffle continue their very own late
late show - Fr M takes a view from the stratosphere - QotW concerns
the strange death of Prince Maurice of Battenberg
Meat Raffle
continue upwards; the Fairies consolidate at the top - Mr Chicken
gets the QotW treatment - Fr M has been to visit the papal turf
accountant
An all WithQuiz
WIST Cup Final as the Smoke Fairies and the Bards sail through -
QotW about a popular drink at Turf Moor
Wins for The
Fairies, The Bards, The Opsimaths, Ethel and the History Men as the
form book rules OK - QotW about a pair of footballing brothers
The Bards keep up
their Fairy chase whilst the Pigs and Meat Raffle clamber away from
the foot - QotW: C'est les pieds à Dieu - Fr M looks at the world
from a vantage point in Heaton Norris Park
The Fairies and
The Bards both win; a win for the Fairies next week will secure the
title making the final showdown between our top two teams at the
Griffin in a fortnight's time merely about South Manchester bragging
rights - QotW features the inadvertent destruction of gnomes
Many
congratulations to the Fairies - after a couple of years away
they're back on top; but it wasn't easy with the Bards chasing to
the end; Ethel fall at
(almost) the last leaving the Opsimaths clear in third spot; 
The Bards earn
bragging rights over the Fairies despite their reign as Champions coming to a close; Ethel just
scramble into Europe on goal difference after a tie with the Charas; TMTCH also tie
to leapfrog the Pigs who finish in the 'Omega position' - In QotW we
find out why David Cameron left a permanent stain - Fr M simply
'Can't Believe It!'
Gin'll Fix It
join us and have "lots of fun"; The Bards, Opsimaths, Pigs and
TMTCH march on to Cup glory; Meat Raffle,
Ethel, Gin'll and The Prodigals totter on to Plate glory - QotW is
about someone fancied by pigeons
Albert, the
Charabancs, the Bards and the Pigs go through to the Val Draper semis
- QotW about the birthplace of Messrs Spring, Follett
and Dahl - Gin'll Fix It are scheduled to play a
Friendly against CMR but never turn up....and are never
heard of again
The Charas and
The Pigs battle through to the Val Draper final; The Prodigals
reach the Plate final (via a walkover) where they'll play the Meat
Raffle - QotW concerns a mysterious geostationary satellite - News
of great success for CMR team members in University Challenge as
Manchester reaches the final