Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 14/03/07

Results & Match Reports

Electric Pigs notched their fourth victory on the trot against Snoopy's Friends to become the 'Comeback Kids' of 2007

Ethel Rodin slipped up at home to Albert (though - see above - they were lucky to be playing at all) - Albert seem to make a habit of finishing the season with a flourish and this year is no exception

History Men managed to break their duck against the Opsimaths by losing their first ever league game to the Albert Club team

Napier Girls, crowned champions last Wednesday, relaxed just a little too much and got turned over by Albert Park at Fortress Griffin - only their second defeat of the season - and both at home to visitors from the Albert Club

Quiz Paper Verdict

X-Pats set this week. An excellent paper according to reports received so far. It was well balanced with a sprinkling of brainteasers and a lot of 'tip of the tongue' stuff. X-Pats are becoming well established as top setters.

The Question of the Week

The Pigs vote this week goes to Round 3 Question 8:

Westminster has the most followed by Kensington & Chelsea and Camden. Nobody can have more than one of them. What are they?

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

Chatterbox

NEW TEAM

Great news - we have a new team joining us. They found us through the website and wrote in with an application through the Contact Us page.

They have elected to be called The Men They Should Have Hung (which I believe is connected to pop music - but I'm sure Roz will elucidate).

They've yet to choose a venue but they are going to field a team in the cup competition and so will emerge as a fighting unit on April 4th (see Fixtures page for details of this year's Cup and Plate competitions).

The contact is Dave Barras and I will post further details on the site as and when I know them.

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QUIZ PAPER THEFT

On a slightly different note the quiz this week featured what I believe is the first ever theft of a Question Paper in the history of our league.

At about 8.45pm Roz phoned me at the Club as the Opsimaths and History Men settled down to Round 1 of tonight's excellent paper. Apparently a mysterious woman claiming to be a quizzer had walked into the Red at about 7.55pm, obtained the envelope containing the Ethel/Albert paper from the barmaid and walked off into the Mancunian night. Roz on her way to the White Swan turned up a few minutes later to find the Red paperless. Following the call from a distraught Roz, Jitka and I were transported in the Opsimaths' emergency vehicle (always ready and waiting with the engine running for just such an occasion in the Club car park) to my own house a few hundred yards away where (invigilated by Jitka) I copied tonight's paper with my eyes shut. A rush back to the Club was just in time to meet up with Roz who drove on back to the Swan. An evening saved.

The local police are now looking for a woman in an anorak. My betting is it was Roisin. Without a match this week and clearly desperate, she was the only woman with a clear motive. Roisin - please give yourself up. The sentence could be light. I believe Tony's latest punishments for such antisocial behaviour involve sitting a selection of Snoopy's past papers. On the other hand perhaps you should sit tight after all.............

Fr Megson

And so it goes......

A Chairde,

I'm far too petrified of Roisin to even think about reviving the hoary old Limericks competition but I couldn't resist sharing this one which I came across whilst re-reading SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 a few weeks ago. Like all the stuff in the works of Kurt Vonnegut (Grumpy Old Man, par excellence - forget all them pretentious tossers on BBC2) it's witty, irreverent and true. I think it would make a fitting epitaph for Fr. Megson and all his male bon viveur colleagues of a certain age in WithQuiz:

There was an old man from Stamboul,

Who soliloquized thus to his tool:

"You took all my wealth

And you ruined my health,

And now you won't pee, you old fool"

And so it goes.......

By the way, if you haven't yet read SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, can I recommend that you throw away this Saturday's twee Guardian magazine and do so. Don't read it whilst sipping a machiato outside one of leafy Didsbury's many trendy coffee bars but jump on a 169 bus and watch the descriptions of firebombed Dresden spring to life as you wend your enchanted way through the back streets of Gorton and Abbey Hey. Repeat the experience on Monday morning by catching a slightly later bus and enjoying a re-reading of Dante's INFERNO in the midst of 200 or so of Burnage and Levenshulme's finest schoolchildren as they plan their guerrilla tactics for another day in the quiet groves of academia that are littered all over East Manchester.

And so it goes......

Fr M