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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2024/2025 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League WEEK BY WEEK ARCHIVE 2024/2025 |
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This page provides a week-by-week summary of the 2024/25 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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| 09/10/24 |
 Great starts for Ethel,
Albert and the
Prods whilst the Opsis scrape past KFD at the Griffin - QotW about
arguably the least successful Olympic nation of all time - News from
Fr Megson as he wanders through Europe and discovers Joyce |
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| 16/10/24 |
 Albert
and the Prodigals head to the top unbeaten after a
couple of weeks - QotW celebrates certain villages
across the UK that were very 'thankful' last century
- news of a Quiz/Auction evening at the Albert Club
to celebrate Lapwing Lane's 'Decade of the Arcade' |
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| 30/10/24 |
 The Prodigals retain their 100%
record; KFD, the History Men and Ethel Rodin also win to keep up
the chase - QotW harks back to the nostalgia of old crappy ITV
sitcoms with Windsor Davies - Albert captain Mike O'Brien gets an
honourable mention in Round 3 |
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| 06/11/24 |
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| 13/11/24 |
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| 20/11/24 |
 Prods keep their 100% record
intact and open up a 4 point gap between themselves and Albert and
KFD; Albert become the season's tie specialists with their second
all square result - QotW reveals a very well hidden African country |
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| 27/11/24 |
 KFD
edge nearer the top whilst Ethel slip up; the
History Men start their spurt up the table; Albert
never tire of tying - QotW covers what the US
covered Afghanistan with back in 2001 during the
invasion - a report on some correspondence with
WithQuiz fans in an ex-pat quiz league in Thailand |
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| 05/12/24 |
 The Alex fly the Stockport flag
into the Semis; elsewhere the WithQuiz triumvirate of Ethel, the
Prods and KFD go through - QotW homed in on the poem The New
Colossus which is inscribed on a plaque at the foot of the
Statue of Liberty |
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| 11/12/24 |
 Prods keep their 100% with a
last gasp win over second-placed KFD; Electric Pigs get a welcome
and well-deserved first win at the Club - QotW was the last question
of the evening (a run-on question) which in 3 of the 4 matches
determined the outcome |
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| 18/12/24 |
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| 15/01/25 |
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| 22/01/25 |
 The Prodigals win a mammoth
encounter at the top keeping their 100% record intact against KFD;
elsewhere Albert, Bards and the History Men win to consolidate their
league positions - QotW harks back to the heady days of the 1960s
and the celebrity photographers of that time |
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| 29/01/25 |
 Prods' 100% keeps going; KFD,
Albert, Bards and History Men in close contention for the runners up
spot; the Pigs surrender bottom spot to the Opsis; next week the
WIST semis - QotW links Bach to Procul Harum - and in the question
paper Oldham's Shay Wake (pictured right) even gets a look in |
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| 14/05/25 | QuizBiz |
Stockport win the Pre-season Inter League match
with a 7-point margin; QotW about the only football league team
still represented by a Tory; a link to a radio interview with
Richard Gilbert; news of the graceful funeral of Nick Mills
Prods keep their 100% record to
stay top with Albert in hot pursuit-top scoring with the season's
first 50-pointer - QotW evokes memories of Napoleonic battles as
celebrated in London and Paris
The
Prods roar on with their 100% record intact whilst KFD nip into
second spot after the nail-biting Albert/Ethel tie at The Sun in
September - QotW asks you to identify the fourth largest party in the
House of Commons following 2024's General Election; it's not what
you think!
Full marks to the unstoppable
Prods on reaching the half way mark intact; elsewhere the Charas
have a notable victory, KFD keep on keeping on and the History Men
creep up to 5th - QotW about a musician who had a 70 year contract
with EMI
No change in the table as the
Prods power on winning the Club derby; KFD, Albert and the Bards
keep up the chase with home wins - QotW about the overlap of some
knights who favoured shrubbery and a gritty British film
The Prods go through to May's
WIST Champions final where they will be joined by The Alex in the
first WithQuiz v Stockport final for a while - QotW finds an
unexpected home for Lord Byron
A clean sweep for the away
teams, and for the form book; the Prods wonderful 100% record
continues - QotW makes one of Greg's punny connections between a
classic Western film and something that rises in Wales
On an evening dripping with
points the Prodigals secure their third Barry Whitehead League
Shield; many congratulations from the
rest of us and now let's see if they can keep that 100% record going
for 3 more matches to break all WithQuiz records - QotW deals with
some royal cobblers in a round dedicated to the League's bottom team
- Kieran puts forward some interesting ideas about how Bingo rounds
might be made more palatable