Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 19/03/08

Everything went according to the form book with WithQuiz's Girls and Stockport's Chunky winning through to the final on April 30th

The Results

Stockport champs, Chunky overcame Withquiz's Charabancs of Fire by a comfortable 20 points margin at the Pineapple

WithQuiz supremos, the Napier Girls fought Stockport's Alexandra to a standstill in the first half but then pulled away in the second half to earn their final place by a clear 10 points

The Paper

Opsimaths set this week. All seemed to go well with a challenging but well received paper. Scores were fair to middling according to Stockport lights. The aggregate was slightly higher than in the quarter finals back in December. Quite a few questions caused merriment - always a good sign!

The Question of the Week

The vote this week, according to those in the Griffin, goes to Round 4 Question 8:

How is the fictional character Daffyd Thomas better known?

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

Chatterbox

WIST Final

General feeling at the Griffin was that the final should take place at Heaton Moor Rugby Club on the evening of Wednesday April 30th - defeated semi finalist, Mike Wagstaffe from the Alexandra, will set the paper and officiate as QM - rumours have it that a cup has been purchased by the Stockport league treasurer, so Come on you Girls!!!

Fr Megson

A Viaduct Too Far....

A Chairde,

Portsmouth did it. The tykes of Barnsley did it magnificently. Even unsung Cardiff City did it. Surely the lowly Charabancs could do it.

But, alas, no! Against all the odds the underdogs of Ladybarn went crashing out of the WIST Champions Cup beaten by mighty Chunky last night at the stunning Pineapple of Dreams on Stockport's very own Rive Gauche.

A stunned, ashen-faced Fr Megson writes:

Things were going really well at the beginning. Then, completely against the run of play, we blurted out the wrong answer to our first question - confusing Small Heath with the less well known Newton Heath. Manchester Utd, Birmingham City - still not sure what the difference is. It was at this stage that things started going badly wrong for us.

You know that dream when you are a little fluffy bunny, your mummy takes you for your first day out on the M6, and then she runs away and you can't find her because you get a bit dazzled by all the bright headlights of the cars bearing down on you at 110mph. Then a massive Parcelforce truck comes hurtling towards you, you scream "Stop", and the driver sticks his head out the window and says "Sorry mate, can't hear you, I've got my I-Pod on. I love this track. Paranoid by Black Sabbath. D'ya know it?" And then you wake up screaming.

Or the one when you are making mad passionate love to 5 Page Three girls on a narrow ledge above a massive butcher's shop and suddenly the ledge breaks and you go hurtling down...down...down....and you wake up screaming: "Dear God I'm so sorry for all my sins - especially that one about making mad passionate love to 5 Page Three girls on a narrow ledge above a massive butcher's shop. But please God don't let me die in a mincer."

Well, it was a bit like that for us last night.

We panicked early on, and by the time we got into our stride we were about 20,000 points behind and the WIST Cup was well and truly beyond our clammy reach.

Chunky are a really impressive (and hospitable) team and it should be a humdinger of a final when they take on the might of the Napier Girls.....far too close to call.

Thanks finally to Mike for a really good set of questions. I loved the one about the Ayresome Park/North Korea connection........really kicked myself (and the team) for not getting it right in time.

Fr Megson