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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 5th March 2008 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 5th March 2008 |
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The Girls win a thriller at the Griffin against the Charabancs and thus secure their tenth League title in a row
Meanwhile the race is on for second place with the Charabancs, the History Men, the Opsimaths and Ethel nip and tuck |
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The Results |
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Albert slipped up at home to Ethel Rodin who are now creeping up on the leading pack Albert Park lost at the Gateway to the X-Pats Napier Girls fought out a thrilling game to beat title rivals Charabancs of Fire - never more than a few points apart the game went to the wire but ended, as the last 10 seasons have, with the fabulous Girls crowned as League Champs - 3 cheers!!! Opsimaths just edged home against the 3-trottered Electric Pigs with whom they had tied earlier in the season Snoopy's Friends against History Men also proved pretty close with the Men just holding on for a victory that keeps them in second place |
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The Paper |
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The Men They Couldn't
Hang
set this week. I've been passing (and
passing on) judgements on quiz papers in this section for some
years now but I can't remember having received such high praise
before. Scarcely midnight and both Kieran and Ivor have
gone orgasmic. Kieran first:
"Now - fantastic quiz - best of the season by
streets. It would still be that if it had been set by
old hands, but given that it was only the second attempt from
The Men then it deserves even higher praise.
In our game the lead changed hands four times
and there was never more than two or three points in it.
All the rounds were full of questions that you could think
about, think about discussing or punting and get to somewhere
near an answer after a brains trust between team mates.
All round a terrific paper and a great evening (as it always
is with the Charas). Many congratulations to The Men who
were the real stars of the night."
....and Ivor:
"All
agreed at the Didsbury that this was an excellent quiz with
the themes novel, and well presented. This is only TMTCH’s
second quiz but they have already discerned the thinking of
our strange little community and served up a menu more mixed
than the metaphor I am attempting (it’s the Didsbury’s Old
Peculiar I’m afraid). Where else on a Wednesday evening
would one’s breadth of knowledge be tested to such an extent
to include questions on Spartan admirals (I didn’t even know
they had a navy) to lyrics from Blondie hits (at least I knew
that)?
QotW was the quote from '1984' describing Big
Brother - it was one of only six 'unanswerables' - but
beautifully constructed to exclude obvious sign-posting such
as mention of '1984' or Winston Smith.”
By and large the Pigs
and Opsimaths concurred with the views above. Jitka (as
QM) particularly asked me to commend TMTCH for the painstaking
care that had clearly gone into the preparation of the paper,
with the introductory remarks and extra comments throughout the
paper. Andrew Simcock enjoyed the evening overall but
found it hard to conceal his disappointment when he failed to
make an appearance as an answer in Round 6 - but then we were
waiting for Dick Turpin and he never turned up. Thank God
there was nothing about Kevin Keegan's first league team.
Just to balance things out Roddy has
written in from the Albert/Ethel match:
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The Question of the Week |
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Despite the comments above I'm going to plump for Round 2 Question 1 - which contained a beautifully concealed theme word which had the Pigs still wondering what the theme was until well after half way through the round:
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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Just a reminder in case you haven't already noticed that I have fiddled around with the fixtures since the initial list was placed on the website at the start of the season:
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