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14th May 2025

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Barry McNorton rounded off our season in style, presenting a perfectly pitched quiz as well as all the season's gongs - before bidding us farewell for his well-earned retirement in East Anglia.

Thanks, Barry!

End of Season Friendly Quiz

Winners: Bards

Runners Up: Albert

Third place: Opsimaths

There was a full house at the Albert Club to mark the end of another WithQuiz season with the traditional friendly quiz and trophy presentation evening.  The only counter attraction was the League One Play Off semi final second leg at Edgeley Park with County pitted (unsuccessfully as it happens) against Leyton Orient.  So, Prodigal John and Chara Bernard were missing but most other WithQuizzers were in the room.  Hard luck County!

There was a special poignancy about the evening as it marked the final appearance after 34 years of Barry McNorton.  Barry has been the Seat 1 backbone of KFD over countless successful campaigns and for our end of season event Barry had taken on quiz-setting and quiz-mastering duties - as well as being the celebrity trophy presenter. 

The warmth shown for Barry, one of the most popular WithQuizzers we have spent our Wednesday evenings with over many years, was palpable - and if I'm not mistaken there was a tear in Barry's eye by the end of the evening.  Barry's off to retirement in Norfolk and quite a few of the questions he had set referenced Norfolk.

The evening's quiz consisted of 6 read out rounds, each of 8 questions along with a picture round.  It was a really tight competition with it seeming that the Opsimaths might nick it - but in the final round the Bards and Albert came crashing through to end up respectively first and second leaving the Opsis back in third slot.

As for the season's honours the stand-out performance has to be that of The Prodigals who stormed the Barry Whitehead League Shield with just a single defeat, capped it with the WIST Champions Cup and then showered their success with Pop-Tarts (see below)

by winning the Dave Barras 'Question of the Season' Shield for the first time in their history.

To savour the atmosphere have a look at the photos of the event here for which many thanks to Howell are due.

Thus endeth WithQuiz's 46th season.  In the meantime enjoy your summer and let's get back together again in late September to do it all again for ...

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