"...a crowd-pleasing way to get the season started"

"We all thoroughly enjoyed tonight's paper (set again by Opsimaths Brian)"

"Plenty of variety in both the subject matter and the format of the rounds."

"A pleasing paper from the Pigs and plenty to entertain with the variety we crave."

"Themes were gettable usually by halfway through a round and most questions were well crafted to give us a fighting chance of a correct answer.  Only four questions stumped everyone."

"It was a varied and mostly enjoyable quiz."

"The paper was a good one but (appropriately enough, given the setters) was quite 'history heavy'."

"A very respectable average score of 75.8 for the paper but somehow it didn't really grab us."

"A lower average score than of late, but pretty respectable nonetheless, and plenty of interest in the subject matter.  A whole round on Rutland and unashamed classical music right up front!"

"The quiz itself was well-balanced and reasonably tough."

"Some questions provoked more conferring than others but in general it was a very accessible quiz."

"A tidy quiz from the Bards which finished at the Club by 10.00 leaving plenty of time for chat."

"We rather enjoyed the Bards test."

"Lots of variety on offer with plenty of well-received questions mingling with quite a few headscratchers - and even an enjoyable picture round to boot."

"This was hard going."

"A great paper from Ethel this week.  Loads of tantalising 'Tip of the tongue' stuff and quite a few 'Well, I never knew that' questions."

"Only downside perhaps, the team going second bore the brunt of the unanswerables."

"Overall we thought a good effort from our current league champions!"

"By some way the hardest paper this season so far - but one that included some of the most interesting questions."

"The quiz itself was a mixture with, for some of us, an overloading of sport and music."

"Finally thumbs up for Round 4 themed on famous guitarists."

"The quiz was a good 'un with plenty of points on offer and much to discuss and debate."

"Another good quiz from the Opsimaths with some intriguing rounds (the Med, Crime, and I really liked the concept of the 'Events of Last Year' round)."

"Loved it!  High-scoring, Manc to the core, loads of tip-of-the-tonguery and very little pop trivia.  The Electric Pigs lined up a classic quiz evening's entertainment."

"...however, a few felt the paper had too many unbalanced pairs."

"Plenty of variety (are there any themes left to explore now?) and a Quotes round that went down very well.  The Picture round was tricky especially for us Manchester newcomers."

"A pretty good paper from the Historymen though twelve unanswereds was quite high."

"Gettable themes that generally helped rather than hindered with a nice bit of bingo to round off the evening."

"...the questions were well-crafted and, overall, pretty fair as a job lot."

"It was an entertaining quiz."

"We all enjoyed the Albert's paper.  Most of the questions seemed perfectly gettable and there was nothing too head-scratching about any of them."

"The quiz tonight was a reasonable challenge...it was the right level of difficulty with enough balance for a fair match."

"I really enjoyed this one.  The scores were pleasantly high ... with a  wide variety of enjoyable setting formats."

"A really good Bards paper produced three tight high scoring games games and for once we could find nothing to quibble about."

"Round 2 was ... a cracking round very nicely themed around the centre of every news bulletin right now."

"This was a paper packed with interesting material ... the paper was full of questions that invited conferences"

"So yes, a tough quiz with not so many two-pointers, but even though it was tough, it seemed fair."

"Some excellent questions"

"A paper that scored a little below the season's average, but more than made up for this by being full of delights."

"The literary Run-ons in Round 1 were very popular - they provided a fresh twist to what has become a well used formula."

"We found tonight's paper a bit of a toughie."

"A paper full of interest and erudition (with a few pictures thrown in for good measure)."

"This quiz was well-crafted with many questions offering two ways into the answer."

"There were enough unanswerable questions to prove that the paper was a proper challenge but not so many to raise any 'who knows, who cares' complaints."

"Plenty of points on offer ... and perfectly balanced ... this was an expertly assembled paper.  Most enjoyable was the way the setters found innovative ways to ask their questions."

"It was a fabulous quiz from KFD, full of interest and intrigue."

"KFD produced a clever set of well crafted rounds with questions tricky enough to keep us thinking."

"Plenty of points to be hoovered up as the aggregate scores came in well above average."

"We all thought it was a good paper, especially the picture round, which we would nominate in place of a favourite question."

"...some well thought out, and balanced questions."

"The tally of points on offer was fine but there were concerns about the balance with the harder question in most pairs evidently going to the team batting first."

"Round of the night?  The pictures (Round 3)."

"All our knocked out colleagues worked to produce some excellent pairings and themes so we had a paper well worthy of a final."