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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 20th February 2008 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 20th February 2008 |
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Shock! Horror! The Girls lose at home to second-placed History Men |
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The Results |
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Albert lost at home to the Albert Park Charabancs of Fire won at the Stadium of Murk against the Electric Pigs - Damian writes:
Ethel Rodin beat the X-Pats to enhance their chances of a place in Europe (well Stockport, actually) next season Napier Girls lost by 2 points at Fortress Griffin to their closest rivals the History Men - Ivor writes:
Opsimaths had a comfortable home victory against The Men TCH |
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The Paper |
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Snoopy's Friends
set this week. I sat out and QMed at the Albert Club.
A mixed bag and some fairly low scores all round. Round 2,
in particular, seemed to be a stinker with only 3 points scored
in our game. It picked up as the evening progressed,
however, with some reasonable scoring later on. Round 6
with the pictures of national leaders was a good idea but pretty
tough.
Both Ivor and Kieran
(from the Girls v History Men match) commented on the paper.
Ivor's comments are repeatable:
"The Quiz itself
was rather variable with 22 unanswered - but quite a few 2s as
well. QotW (although no one knew the answer) was deemed to
be the paragraph which had the answer 'Worcester Sauce'.
There was an honourable mention to the 'What the butler saw
machine' question (again unanswerable). I wonder if it'll
be
possible to drop that phrase into a conversation in the future?"
...and the
comments from the Charabanc/Pigs Stadium of Murk match:
"As is often the
case with Snoopy's questions, the quality was variable.
The 1st half went painfully slow and most of us doubted
whether the fact that Worcester sauce was on the table in
Lhasa when the Brits came a calling, or that Andy Warhol and
some obscure Italian painter shared the wall of a Milan
convent with Leonardo's Last Supper, could actually fit the
description of 'General Knowledge'. Did anybody
actually answer those two questions correctly? I'd
really like to know.
Things picked
up slightly in the 2nd half. But then again, did
anybody actually know that a scot was a type of 'tax'? So very much a hodgepodge of the general and the obscure was the verdict from Ladybarn....but I guess we've survived worst!" |
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The Question of the Week |
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The vote this week - courtesy of the Ethel Rodin/X-Pats teams - goes to Round 2 Question 2:
Click here to see the answers to this and the rest of the week's questions and answers. |
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Chatterbox |
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...search me
You may be interested
to know that each week I get a report from the people who have
provided our new website search feature showing what the most
popular search arguments have been during the week. In
truth the feature has not been used that much so I will have a
good think about whether to continue it when the trial period
comes to an end in a week or two.
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Twice:
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I'm glad to see that - contrary to general internet practice - WithQuizzers do not seem to be looking for sex (other than, possibly, a fleeting reference to Dorothy - which has never seemed a particularly sexy name to me). Rather they lust after various versions of John Dennison, Damian Land, Gerry Collins, Gerry Hennessy and Mike O'Brien and (naturally) Wittgenstein. There also seems to be a disproportionate yearning for OSCAR and Mark. And who is it that looks to WithQuiz to provide them with information about sardines? As a good citizen I will, of course, be submitting all these details to GCHQ. Over to you. You may care to comment on the message board. |
