Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 14/11/07

With the Girls setting, the History Men manage to draw level at the top

The Results

Albert won at home to The Men TCH, in what Mary described as "a very enjoyable quiz"

Albert Park slipped to a narrow defeat at the trotters of the Electric Pigs in the second of this season's 6 Albert Club derby matches

Ethel Rodin lost the Stadium of Murk derby to Charabancs of Fire - Damian writes:

"A close one all the way to the end of Round 6, after which the Charas pulled ahead due mainly to Father M's amazing ability to recall his drug-fuelled, binge-drinking, sex-addicted halcyon days getting down and dirty in the 70s.

Dear Roz, on the other hand, still thinks 'pop music' is something you listen to on Classic FM while sipping a nice glass of Dandelion and Burdock. You can see how questions about the Sweet's greatest hits or Riding a White Swan proved a tad baffling for her whilst causing our reverend captain to jump out of his seat and shake from head to toe. Fortunately, we had a syringe filled with Old Grouse on hand for these moments and this helped him to sink back rather unsteadily into his chair!"

Snoopy's Friends lost at the Didsbury to the revivified Opsimaths

X-Pats, handicapped by having just 3 players, lost at the Sun in September to the History Men who have been getting back into stonking form over the past few weeks

The Paper

The Napier Girls set this week. The average aggregate score (72.0) was by some margin the highest so far this season. So certainly not too difficult. The verdict from the White Swan:

"A fairly straightforward quiz if a bit liberally sprinkled with questions on song, sport and sex (but no speed). The Charas wanted to nominate the one about the tittles (Round 7 Question 1) as Q of the W but it caused a near riot amongst Madame Rodin and her ladies because the QM failed to make it clear that '6' was written as a number and not in letters - so we decided the Q of the W nomination might not go down too well. Instead, therefore, we plumped for the spare about what, in 1865, changed from 52 to 54."

At the Didsbury, Snoopy's and the Opsimaths found the paper made for a pretty jolly evening. No big arguments (for once) and plenty of good beer. Alice would like to thank the Girls for copious amounts of pop questions that were right up her street. She was undoubtedly the star points-grabber for the Opsimaths.

And from the Sun in September the History en come to exactly the same conclusion about the Q of the W nomination:

"A good night at the Sun in September (3 and a half pints for just over £4). On the whole we enjoyed the paper, though having current affairs questions always seems like last minute desperation to get the quiz compiled (there will probably be some when we set in two weeks time!). Only 8 unanswered so just right on the “difficulty” scale. Ann got 6 twos in a row - at this rate we shall have to change our name to the Historypeople or even the Historywomen. QOTW would have been the tittle one but the spare 1865 52/54 conundrum just steals it."

The Question of the Week

This week from both the Sun in September, and the White Swan, the vote goes to Spares Question 5:

In what way did 52 become 54 in 1865?

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