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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2013/2014 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2013/2014 |
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This page provides a week-by-week summary of the 2013/14 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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08/01/14 |
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15/01/14 |
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22/01/14 |
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29/01/14 |
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05/02/14 |
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07/05/14 |
The Prodigals lift the WIST A-Trophy in the first year of this new competition but WIST Champions final delayed until the 21st May |
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WithQuiz triumph in the traditional curtain-raiser for the new
season - "How can you connect actors Rupert Davies and Andrew
Cruickshank" asks QotW - News of a new WIST competition
(The 'A'-Trophy)
High-scoring start
to the new season; Charas, Ethel and Bards all win with scores
that top 40 points - Can you link Tchaikovsky, Proust and Marc
Bolan? Well QotW can!
The
Pigs continue their 'bounce back' after last season whilst The
Bards go top on 'goal difference' - QotW goes all 'Bookerish'
Meat Raffle and
Albert get off the mark; the History Men and the Opsimaths
produce the season's first tie - It's a Swedish Gem and a French
Trombone in QotW - Fr M has his first outing of the
season dreaming of marble halls
Early season
euphoria dissipates for The Bards and The Pigs, whilst INBTO
chug along nicely - QotW asks what connects some safe Labour
seats
INBTO, The Opsimaths
and The Pigs surge on while the Bards drop back - QotW poses a
linking date poser
The Pigs trip up but
elsewhere the top teams stride on 
WithQuiz teams take
3 of the A-trophy semi-final places with honours even in the
WIST competition - In QotW Isaac Newton and Ptolemy Tortoise
hold a dinner-party
It's tight at the top
with INBTO, Opsimaths and Bards all winning - next week's
showdown at the Griffin will be crucial - QotW wants to know who
was 
It's
a 'stiffin' at
the Griffin' as the League leaders are toppled - Fond memories
of the late great Araucaria - QotW about Dashiell
Hammett's late missus
Top two teams win;
Ethel and The Pigs win the two derbies - 90 PMs? Well QotW's got
4 of them
The Opsimaths and
INBTO power on whilst the Pigs sneak up above the Bards into
third place - QotW is the first example of the 'Run On' type of
question to fill this slot
Rejoice! The
Men storm into the second half of the season on the back of a
famous victory - A pair of Kaiser posers for QotW
WithQuizzing returns
to the White Swan; TMTCH march on undefeated since mid December
- A photographic retrospective of the White Swan (The
Stadium of Murk) in its bad old days - QotW wants to
know where TINA popped her clogs
A tough old paper
sees INBTO slip up against the Charas - Heard of the one about
the comic banned in Ulster for obscene lyrics? QotW has!
Top lose and bottom
two win, as The Opsimaths go down to The Bards, and Meat Raffle
and The Men both triumph 
Opsimaths & INBTO
keep going whilst The History Men prove themselves this season's
tie
specialists - Smiley crops up in QotW
Opsimaths win the
battle at the top while the Bards slip further behind in 3rd
place - Japanese Angry Raisins rear their heads in QotW
Top
three all win away from home; Meat Raffle win the battle
of the basement - Manchester's own V & A hits QotW
Chunky and INBTO go
through to the WIST final; Albert will play The Prodigals in an
all-WithQuiz A-trophy final - WithQuiz's attempt to challenge
Dave et al on Eggheads rejected by the broadcasters -
QotW remembers the very first New York ticker-tape
parade
Yet another tie for
the History Men; the Opsimaths win the Club derby 
Opsimaths edge
closer to the crown; Bards and Pigs consolidate their claims to
be in next season's WIST Cup - SW English rivers get the QotW
treatment
Opsimaths place one
hand on the league title with a home win over TMTCH; INBTO beat
the Bards to confirm at least second place - Know what the 
Opsimaths win the
League - INBTO come second - Bards are third - Pigs, Ethel and
History Men slug it out next week for fourth place - QotW
links
Ethel squeak into
4th place on points difference after a tie with INBTO - A Royal
Maze for a mistress is the subject of this week's QotW
Albert, Charas and
Historymen through to Val Draper Round 2; Ethel, Pigs and Meat
Raffle go into Plate semis - An MBE jumps off 
Opsimaths, Charas,
Prodigals and Albert go through in the Cup; Bards go to the
Plate as Highest Scoring Losers - QotW talks about the only PM
that took office on foreign soil
Charas & Prodigals
win through to the Val Draper final; Ethel & the Pigs meet in
the Plate final - QotW about the four US Presidents who have
served in
The Charas lift the
Cup for the second year running; the Electric Pigs win the Plate
- 'Trade Union leader becomes President in the US' is the QotW
headline
A full house for the
End of Season evening at the Albert Club - Evening's friendly
quiz prepared and delivered by Mike Wagstaffe, our friend from
Stockport
INBTO romp to
another WIST Champions title - QotW concerned someone who was "