Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 26/03/08

Congratulations to the History Men for being League runners up - and to the Charabancs of Fire and the Opsimaths for qualifying for next season's WIST Champions Cup as, respectively, 3rd and 4th placed teams

The Results

Albert, with Evelyn and Nick away, were down to 3 and lost to the Opsimaths at the Fletcher Moss

Snoopy's Friends lost out at home to close rivals Albert Park ending up just below them in the final table

Electric Pigs couldn't dent the mighty Napier Girls going down at the Albert Club

History Men lived up to their league placing with a home win against Ethel Rodin - Ivor writes:

"This was the first quiz game we have played al fresco. Who would have thought so many people would want to watch a meaningless soccer match? We relocated to the beer garden and had a quiet time under the umbrellas and the electric heaters (so much for carbon footprints). All very level until the last few rounds. First two themes were quite well buried until later answers - though the theme 'all answers contain an adjective' is possibly only one step up from 'all answers contain a word that is commonly found in a dictionary'.

It was interesting to be reminded of JFK’s method of avoiding headaches which certainly sounds better than taking two paracetamol. One can only speculate that the nurses in Dallas Parkland Hospital did not do enough to relieve his final headache. I wonder if this constitutes medical negligence?"

The Men TCH ended their first WithQuiz league season with a defeat at the hands of the Charabancs of Fire - despite their basement placing everybody has enjoyed the company of TMTCH this winter - and they have to be in the running for being setters of the best quiz paper of the season

The Paper

X-Pats set this week. General consensus (although Damian - below - begs to differ) seems to be that it was a good quiz with a suitable mixture of themes and pairings. As is mentioned elsewhere the 'all answers contain an adjective theme' was scraping the barrel. Why bother saying there is a theme at all?

Kieran writes:

"Pretty good quiz although the adjectives theme was desperately weak. Question of the week was the Kennedy question to Macmillan - though I don't believe even JFK said 'every two hours' - and I'd have loved to have seen the look on SuperMac's face when he had to think of an answer! "

and Damian:

"The last quiz of the season was a bit of a damp squib in our view with a tad too many rather obscure themes (I'm still trying to figure out what the poetic link was for 'Samson?'). Rather too many of the 'who was the last British born left winger to captain a non-British European Cup runners-up side' variety. This was reflected in the rather low scores for this last league match of the season.

The highlight of the evening was Father M's excitement at guessing the American Universities theme round. Unfortunately his enthusiasm rather ran away with him and it was only with the greatest difficulty and following a few judicious shots of Jamesons that we finally managed to persuade him that there was no American University called 'Up Yer Bum' or 'Red Hot Fceking Poker' when it came for the time to answer the question about Edward II's death.
Apart from that, it was a most convivial evening in the company of some of our most convivial opponents!

Yours pokingly

Chara Damian"

The Question of the Week

The vote this week (from the Girls/Pigs match) goes to Round 4 Question 3:

Which world leader was allegedly asked by J F Kennedy, "Don't you find you get a headache if you don't have sex every couple of hours?"?

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

Fr Megson

Memo to Lord Bath from Lemsip Parsnip MP

As you know I am a very important person in the HP London which I think is something to do with politics as well as being very flavoursome brown sauce. I believe my official title at the moment is Lib Dem spokesman on Scrabble and anagrams, but my briefs are also wide enough to embrace all that is good in Eastern European teenage culture. Hence my following request, which is as follows:

Send me please ticket for your very exciting Chunky Girls final. Please also do not send me ticket for main auditorium. Send me ticket instead for adjoining shower cubicle which must have fitted one good-sized peephole. This is my favoured way for watching Chunky Girls play.

Please do not ask for me to send monies for ticket as visit from the Estonia Secret Police breaking down your door at midnight with pickaxe handles often offends.

I go now. Any further questions please first send cash. This is democratic principle which I have learned in your country.

Kisses and cuddles,

Lemsip xxxxxx

PS: Please also not to forget to secure long-term your "Lord" Bath title by leaving some more brown envelopes behind usual cistern. Brown envelopes this time please. You left brown sauce last time which I have not found very funny. No more Mr Wise Guy please or I will send hungry Chunky Girls to sit on lap.