Withington Pub Quiz League

Stockport win the Pre-season Friendly yet again - this time by 6 points - in a high-scoring curtain-raiser to the season

Tony presents the WIST Trophy to Andrea for the 5th year running

WithQuiz v Stockport League

Stockport win the trophy once more in a match that lived up to its 'friendly' label

As joint setter and QM Mike had a ringside seat at this encounter

Just as last year WithQuiz fell behind their rivals from across the Mersey ('The New Berlin' as wags have recently dubbed Stockport). By the end of Round 2 Stockport had a 6-point lead and that was the margin at the end of the second half.

Tony and Ivor captained the WithQuiz half dozen with John and Damian from the Charas, and Ashton and Ian from Albert, the not-quite-able-enough troops. For Stockport there were the familiar faces of Alice, Andrea, George, Haydn, Barrie and Mike.

The Parrswood was athrong with an Irish folk band fiddling away in the far room and a fair number of drinkers elsewhere. We grabbed the upper lounge and curtained ourselves away but even so Barrie and I had to raise our voices a few decibels. Fortunately by the time our music round (Round 5) came the folksy hubbub had eased off and hearing wasn't a problem.

A cheerful event with plenty of nattering after the final whistle - but oh, it would be good to get that Pre-season Cup back some time if only to choke Mike Wagstaffe's perennial jibe: "Here's the Cup - just take a quick peek before we return it to its ancestral home in Stockport".

Folly & Mockery ... and Wisdom

(R3/Q5)

Quiz paper set by...

...Barrie Atkinson

(the Stockport-style rounds)

with Mike Bath

(the WithQuiz-style rounds)

Aggregate score 136.0

This was a high-scoring affair compared to last year. Things started at a pretty gallop with only 4 points dropped throughout Round 1. Some excellent rat-a-tat questions delivered by Barrie getting everyone off to a flying start. Round 2 the written round with a theme, was more to Stockport's liking and this proved the decisive period of the match since Rounds 3 to 6 came out with the scores dead level.

Round 3 was a tribute round to nonagenarian Tony Hammond which elicited a warm round of applause for Tony at its close.

Where Co-operation starts

(R6/Q12)

As last year I ventured into music, playing some well-known intros from my phone to my mini-speaker. There was also a picture round on artistic styles from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s (Dadaism, Surrealism, etc.). I always fear preparing a round like this as the dividing lines between styles is open to personal interpretation but it seemed to go OK with most competitors homing in on the correct answers.

Charlotte

(R3/Q1)

Genius behind a Kind of Blue

(R6/Q6)

Question of the Week

This week Round 3 was a tribute to Tony Hammond following his 90th birthday this summer. Each answer had a link to the number '90'. Tony went last for WithQuiz and so I've chosen the last question of this round which he had answered correctly before I had even got to reading the second half of the question. Happy birthday, Tony.!

What was the name of the Manchester railway terminus adjacent to Manchester Victoria (indeed they shared a long platform) which closed in 1969?

For the answer to this and all the week's other questions click here.

A Shoo-in for Tony

(R3/Q12)

...and also

Next Wednesday we're off and running with the new season's WithQuiz League competition. First week up we've got the pleasure of a CKC paper. Good luck!

Keeping your enemies even closer

(R6/Q3)