Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 28/10/04

Results & Match Reports

X-Pats just eased home beating Albert by 2 points - with Evelyn being in the hot seat for the last question

Ahead with just round 8 to go, Snoopy's managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, losing to the Pigs by 7 points

Fifth Finger got into their stride with a massive 53 points against the Opsimaths at the Griffin - despite being behind at half time

Down at the Albert Club the History Men got off the mark against table proppers, Albert Park

Ethel Rodin made it a day of double misery for Megson and his crew - after seeing his alter ego get the boot at WBA, Fr M had to endure FCEK going down at home to lose their table-topping spot to the Fingers

Quiz Paper Verdict

An excellent paper from St Caths saw a really high scoring evening with an average of 86.2 - and one team (the inevitable Fingers) topping 50 points. Your comments were all very favourable with special mention for the crispness of the questions and the even balance. Games were nip and tuck for most of their duration. My 'Popularity Score' of 4 out of 5 (see the 'League Table' page) may seem a little harsh but I did feel some of the questions were a tad on the easy side. Oh, and by the way, note that my '1 to 3' rating has expanded to '1 to 5' to give me a little more leeway to distinguish between the papers. Do please indicate how you rate the paper each week when you send your scores in.

All in all a really entertaining evening around the clubs and pubs of South Manchester!!

The Question of the Week

Round 2 - Question 6:

Which duo's only chart hit contained the line 'I wish I could fly right up to the sky, but I can't'?

Click here to see the answers to this and the rest of the week's questions and answers.

Chatterbox

AN OLD MATE

Over the weekend I was lucky enough to get an invite down to London to celebrate John Jackson's 50th birthday at a swanky Soho restaurant. John used to be captain of the Albert Park team until a run of poor results forced him to quit his top teaching job in Bolton and emigrate to Norwich. He sends his regards to one and all. And just to show that he is still a quiz freak at heart he set a 1954 quiz paper for us to struggle with over the dessert. One question in particular was a beaut: 'Which 2 classic English works of fiction, published in 1954, had titles that both started with the same 4 words?'.

Any offers?

Fr Megson

Thrills and Spills Aplenty

A chairde,

Thrills and spills aplenty at the Village of Ladybarn

Stadium last night as Ethel Rodin deservedly outclassed the erstwhile league leaders in a high scoring, top-notch game watched by a handful of non-appreciative locals.

Here are some of the more repeatable post match comments:

Winning team manager, Roz Rodin:

"I never use clichés because I think their usage is becoming somewhat clichéd in the league in which we live today. Suffice to say that I'm feeling a tad superlunatic at this moment in time. I rested myself and decided to let some of the youth team have a run out tonight. It was a bit of a gamble but it paid off handsomely. Well, maybe not handsomely, but you know what I mean! I thought all my babies, with the possible exception of baby Tolin, played with great poise and maturity. And, speaking of maturity, I note with some alarm that my bottle of Highland Park is nearing the end of its natural life..........Garcon!"

Father Megson:

"Effin Rodents -- sorry, I don't mean to be bitter and twisted. It's just that I've been under a lot of stress recently. Tonight's defeat means that I may well be the first manager this season to be sacked twice within 48 hours. Mind you, I shall be taking my first dismissal to the High Court on the grounds that it took place in a parallel universe. They can't do that, can they? You've gotta help me, Tony. Don't go to sleep on me, Tony, wake up. God, I thought judges were meant to be sober!"

Baby John Tolin (third team youth player and apprentice heartthrob):

"It's every trainee heartthrob's dream to play a quiz in Ladybarn and I still can't believe I've scored tonight. Just think, only last week I was sat at home peeling the spuds and inventing 8 new words for last week's quiz! And tonight I'm scoring in Ladybarn! To be honest I don't remember much about it. Somebody said 'yarg' so I just closed my eyes and shouted 'nettles' like you do when you panic. And when I woke up all the team

were on top of me, you know, kissing and cuddling and that sort of thing. It

was a marvellous feeling, I can tell you. Marvellous."

Sven Goren Eriksson (a Swedish commercial traveller currently sharing digs in Ladybarn):

"Ya, forsure it was good but I have came only tonight to see Roz Rodin in

action but she is not giving me action. This makes me feel bad forsure

because I have many respects for her because she is happy to be dominant and because she is refusing to have a TV in her kitchen. In Sweden we have a wise saying which is saying that a team is not a team without a fox without a box. Now I have explained myself forsure so I will go to fold my underwear and listen once more for DANCING QUEEN on my music centre."

So it's Goodnight from Sven, and Goodnight from a very redundant......

Fr. Megson