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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2016/2017 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2016/2017 |
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This page provides a week-by-week summary of the 2016/17 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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07/12/16 |
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11/01/17 |
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18/01/17 |
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25/01/17 |
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01/02/17 |
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22/03/17 |
"It was dark, dreich and dismal at Macclesfield crematorium yesterday as many of us gathered to say goodbye to Dave. A sullen contrast to the rich and colourful patchwork that had been Dave's short life as we heard described in an eloquent ceremony. One thing that stayed with me (apart from the grief etched into Gilly's face) was the description of the little bits of paper left lying around the house when Dave took to setting quizzes. I recently heard Seamus Heaney's widow saying that she still missed her husband's untidiness about the house; his clutter of little jottings and phrases that might one day be nurtured and coaxed into poetry. Good quiz questions are maybe more ephemeral than good poetry but they have this in common: they don't just happen, they both need a lot of work, a lot of teasing and wheedling before they can be published. Above all they both need inspiration. Dave had that inspiration. An inspiration that made us realise that there is more to knowledge than knowing the answer; that knowing how to ask can yield a still more rewarding pleasure. Quizzing, by its nature, will always be about the trivial and the banal. But so is life oftentimes. So take a leaf out of Dave's jotter and make the most of both. Rest in Peace, Darlo lad. You are and will always be missed." |
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Sad
news to start the season with the recent death of Richard Seed, a
long time WithQuizzer and friend of us all
WithQuiz snatch back the WIST
Trophy after a year in the care of the Stockport
League - QotW set by long term City fan and
Stockport quizzing supremo, Mike Wagstaffe makes us
all want to turn our backs on the QM
The season kicks off with wins for
Albert, the Pigs, the Dunkers, Mantis Shrimp and The
Opsimaths - QotW reminds us of who started the
running Brexit sore from which we are still
suffering (and will be long after this website has
faded away), the bloody Steward of Northstead
Wins for The Opsis, Ethel, DD
and The Prods - whilst The Pigs and The History Men
slug out the first drawn match of the season - Gilly
struggles with Aaron Chwatt but gets a midwife toad
to make her feel at home - QotW celebrates a velvet
revoluionary
Father Megson blames his team's recent woes on Dave, Gilly and The Men
- Wins for The Opsis, The History Men, Ethel, The
Shrimps and the Dunkers - Still no joy for the
Bards, the Charas and The Men - QotW about the
Piranha brothers - Transnistria's Foreign Secretary
gets a look in
The Shrimps and The Opsimaths
maintain their 100% records; no joy yet for The
Bards, The Men or The Charas - questions about Harry
Ramsden and Vladimir Lenin plus a gruesome QotW
linking death by hanging, graffiti and pop groups
The Charas
start their winning surge; Victories for all the 100%ers: The
Opsis, The Shrimps and The Dunkers - Fr M 'Carries
on Kampfing' - QotW about the strange coincidence
associated with William Herschel's age at his death
The Shrimps and The Dunkers march
on unbeaten whilst (like Barcelona) The Opsimaths
prove themselves 'vincible' - questions about the
series of Ladybird books for grown-ups - QotW
concerns the artist with the greatest number of
Number one albums
The Alex and Travellers Call keep
Stockport's hopes alive but elsewhere WithQuiz clean
up - QotW all about D B Cooper the Portland to
Seattle criminal - and is Pab Zab harder than Jaap
Stam?
Q: Which team hasn't won a match
this season? A: NONE! - both TMTCH and The Bards
chalk up their first victories of the campaign;
elsewhere the Dunkers and the Shrimps continue
undefeated - Opsimath Brian's paper brings everyone
up-to-date on Rossendale's annual gravy wrestling
The Shrimps lose leaving the
Dunkers as the only 100% team left standing - an
excellent Dave Barras paper with QotW all about a
Cornish fishing port - memories of the first meeting
of the Pools panel and the infamous moustachioed
Gerald Nabarro
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The Dunkers keep their unbeaten
record and their 4 point lead at the top of the
table - sad news of the death of Jane the popular
Fletcher Moss landlady casts a shadow over the
Albert/Opsimaths clash - QotW about Lewis's more
serious side - elsewhere in Lewis the Donald...
The Dunkers keep their 100%
record whilst the Shrimps and the Opsimaths both
lose - The Charas start their post
Christmas surge a tad early - alarming news of Pig
Andrew singing The Wonder of You at the
Manchester Labour Party Christmas party - QotW all
about the Shakespeare play with the highest death
count
The Shrimps, the Dunkers, Albert
and Ethel prosper whilst the Opsis slip up (again)
against the resurgent Charas - QotW all about the
French being fed up with Mancunian guitarists
Victories in line with the
form-book - apart from the Bards beating Ethel at
the Cricket Club - a whole round about the Peak
District including the QotW in which Hope Springs
Eternal!
Only one headline tonight: The Bards ram-raid Fortress Griffin
and nick the Dunkers' 100% record - QotW won by the
fascinating teaser asking for the names of the 2 US
Presidents born in 1913 - another favoured question
revived memories of The Avengers
Albert and The Opsimaths creep a
little closer to the Dunkers at the top; the Shrimps
and the Prodigals miss out - QotW all about the
resting place of two boobies
Traveller's Call win through to
hold the flame for Stockport in the WIST Finals
against WithQuiz's Albert - The Shrimps will play the
Prodigals in the all WithQuiz A-Trophy final - Mike
O'Brien hogs the limelight with an unashamed plug
for Mr Compensator and his special magic 8-ball -
QotW all about John Johnson who avoided the hangman
by tumbling from the scaffold to his death in 1606
Double bubble for the Dunkers -
they win whilst nearest rivals Albert, the Opsimaths
and the Shrimps all slip up - excellent QotW all
about the national anthem called
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an evening where the top 6 were all matched against
each other.... The Shrimps edged closer to the
top beating the Dunkers whilst the Opsimaths and
Ethel beat close rivals Albert and the Prodigals -
In a pretty tough Bards paper QotW was all about
Torquemada, Mary Tudor and Lucretia Borgia
At the top The Dunkers and The
Shrimps both win; elsewhere there's the rarity of
two tied matches - between The History Men and The
Charas, and The Bards and The Men They Couldn't Hang
- a pointsfest of an Opsimaths paper from Brian - QotW all about
Serbian delicacies
Defeats for the Dunkers and the
Shrimps leaving just a sliver of a chance for the
Opsimaths - a quiz set by TMTCH summed up thus: "A
paper that was, in effect, a volume of 64 short and
absorbing stories crafted to perfection by master
builder, Dave Barras" - QotW about tubular warnings
News
of the death of Dave Barras, one of WithQuiz's finest overshadows
the week in which DD clinch the title - Pigs' paper dedicated to
Dave with these words: "Dedicated to Dave Barras. A genial
giant and a master quiz setter. With grateful thanks for the
many hours of enjoyment your quizzes and your company have afforded
us."
The
day of Dave Barras's funeral - Gerry posts this beautiful tribute:
The league season ends with wins
for The Albert, The Opsimaths and The Shrimps, but
defeat for our League Champions, the Dunkers,
emphasising just how close a contest it's become of
late - QotW about the Spice Girls and 1-2-3-4-5 -
Memories of Bagpuss
Victories for TMTCH, The History
Men and The Charas as the handicap system does its
thing - Tough Opsimaths paper - QotW about the
arrest of Helen Duncan in 1944
Cup
competitions underway - Dispute as to whether
Greenland is a country and Rutland a county - QotW
for philatelists: 'They were introduced in 1958 and phased out
in 1991; they are said to have inspired
the 1973 Genesis album Selling England by the
Pound; what are they?'
Travellers Call triumph in the
WIST Champions Cup to take the trophy back to
Stockport for the first time in 5 years - The Prodigals win the A-Trophy for
the second year running - Gadheim can't wait for
Brexit whilst Westerngrund wants us to remain (see
the fascinating QotW)
Victories
for the History Men and Ethel Rodin in the Val Draper semis -
Dunkers and Prodigals win through to the Plate final - the Shrimps
QotW links up fast food and oriental dictators - a gem of a question
about Bierce's Dictionary definitions
The History Men lift the Val
Draper Cup, just - The Prodigals add the Plate to
their A-Trophy victory a fortnight earlier - QotW
all about a 'Vegetable Compound, a Positive Cure for all those
Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population'
The Dunkers win the 2016/17
Question of the Season award - The Shrimps win the
evening's quiz which was set and presented by Mike
Wagstaffe - as a quiz bonus Mike asked us to think of an amusing
caption for this wonderful picture of Pope Francis