Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 30/01/08

With the Charabancs setting, and the History Men fading, the Opsimaths have sneaked up to second spot

The Results

Albert stomped home against the History Men

Albert Park allowed the Opsimaths to get away at the Gateway

Electric Pigs edged a thriller against Ethel Rodin at the Albert Club

Napier Girls got back to their winning ways against Snoopy's Friends

The Men TCH narrowly missed out against X-Pats

The Paper

Charabancs of Fire set this week. Pretty popular paper is the feedback so far (12:10 am on Thursday).

Kieran has gone all effusive after a few weeks of frustration:

"We liked it! Three possible questions of the week:

the dayglo Golden Gate Bridge

Starbucks turning up in Moby Dick

the Yoruba Obla Di

all ticking the 'well I never knew that' box. Excellent quiz.

One gripe: if the Crab Nebula exploded in 1054 and it's 5000 light years away - well I know my 'O' level physics was poor but I'm not too sure we'd have seen it yet.

....and a wonderful blurt from Snoopy Rob who plainly switched off after the first part of his transsexual question. Focussing on the perfect 10, and transported back to his youth in 1976 in a half remembered adolescent reverie, when he should have said Bo Derek he answered.......Nadia Comaneci. Magnificent!"

.....and Andrew (speaking for the Pigs):

"A very enjoyable quiz."

.....and at the Gateway we also found much to relish. Nevertheless we did feel a bit aggrieved at the Gordon Brown question since both teams knew him as MP for Dunfermline East and so discounted him as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath - little knowing that this was the new name for Dunfermline East. I thought trick questions had been outlawed. But I quibble. Another tour de force from the White Swine's sty.

Oh, and by the way, having seen Barry Whitehead and his team (Dr O'Neil) walk off with the wine and choccies at the Albert Club quiz this Monday I can assure WithQuizzers that he is still very much twitching despite Round 4's implication that he had flown off with the birds to some celestial place.

The Question of the Week

The vote this week (from the Pigs/Ethel match) goes to Bingo Question 29:

According to Fr Megson there's nothing better than a swift Bishop's Finger to get you off at night after a hard day's grind in the pulpit - but which brewery produces Bishop's Finger Ale?

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

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Fixtures

Please note I have fiddled around with the Fixtures by swapping the WithQuiz league matches that were to have taken place on March 19th (Wednesday before Easter) with the WIST Cup Semi Finals that were scheduled for March 26th - this is to fit in with the Stockport League Fixture list - hope this doesn't cause any problems