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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 24th October 2007 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 24th October 2007 |
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The Girls march on but both of their closest rivals from last season (the History Men and the Charabancs of Fire) lose |
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The Results |
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Albert notched up a fairly convincing home win at the Fletcher Moss against Snoopy's Friends Charabancs of Fire slipped up at the White Swan to Albert Park, who thus made it a hat-trick of victories on the night for the Albert Club teams. Opsimaths beat the History Men at the Albert Club in a match of jollity, exasperation, triumph and much raucousness - in fact everything a good quiz evening out should be. Prize moment came in the themed composers round when Ivor (yes, Ivor!!) blurted out Stephanie Beacham as the answer to the "Who played Jonathon Hart?" question. I think it'll be a few weeks before his fellow historians allow him to forget that! Napier Girls scored an emphatic home victory at the Griffin against X-Pats. The Men TCH lost out to the Electric Pigs to a set of questions that proved pretty tough for both sides. |
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The Paper |
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Ethel Rodin set this week. "Tough but fair" was the verdict from Albert Park. "Like pulling teeth" was the comment from the Griffin. The aggregate scores were on the low side but not rock bottom so it was not an impossible quiz. I think the problem most people had was the amount of time it took to get through the paper. Most questions had plenty of scope for debate - and many of the answers too! At the Club Jitka struggled with small sized font, complex grammatical constructions and lengthy questions. Round 5 Question 1 was a case in point. An excellent puzzler about Attlee succeeding and preceding Churchill as Prime Minister - but the wording left us perplexed and led to much debate. To be fair, Roddy owned up to the wording for this question being faulty in his email attaching the question paper. Being a Londoner manqué I really liked the one about the tube stations that had changed their names but it provoked cries of "southern ponce" from the rest of the room. Who said Mancunians were parochial? |
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The Question of the Week |
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This week the Pigs' vote goes to Round 8 Question 3:
- though at the Parrs Wood Hotel, it seems, the answer (in a somewhat more basic form) could be said to apply to all the questions. Click here to see the answers to this and the rest of the week's questions and answers. |
