Snoopy's Friends (the 'Hull City' of this year's programme) march on undefeated!

Who'll come out on top next Wednesday when they meet fellow table-toppers, SPW, at The Didsbury?

The Results

TMTCH, still looking for their first win of the season, crashed at home to undefeated SPW

After scuttling around Didsbury delivering late quiz papers to bereft WithQuizzers, Andrew Simcock returned to the Fletcher Moss only for the Electric Pigs to taste defeat at the hands of the Getaways

The Paper

X-Pats set this week.  Having missed out last night (watching David Tennant as Hamlet in Stratford-on-Avon - very, very good) I am totally reliant on your views.  As I write I have not yet looked at the paper (many thanks, Jim, for sending it through electronically).

Judging by the comments I'd say another good paper - though the average aggregate score was a little lower than the previous matches so far this season.

A couple of votes each for 2 QotW candidates; the one about the 1796 cricket match (Round 4 Question 1) and the one I chose concerning the Pet Shop Boys' lyrics (see below).

On the debit side a boo from the Getaways for the phobia pair (Question 7 in Rounds 2 & 7).

However the main talking point this week seems to have been the disappearance of the Question papers.  As far as I can glean from the emails I have received, a barmaid at the Red mislaid them so that, but for the determination of Andrew Simcock and Roz in finding them and then rushing around delivering them to each of the venues, there would have been 5 separate and unquestioning drinking bouts taking place around Didsbury and Ladybarn.

Ivor writes:

"The evening started well.  With the quiz questions missing we had a friendly game with Tony’s spare quizzes and were leading handsomely.  Then Andrew S arrived at The Didsbury with the missing paper and the rot set in.

The game was close all the way and it came to the last two questions with scores level - one person in seat 4 destined to be the sheep and the other the goat.  And tonight it was Tony who was the ovine millionaire whilst I was the caprine exiting the catflap.

Some hard questions but plenty to interest - and plenty we really should have got right but didn’t.  That’s quizzing!

Ivor 'Ramos' Cartmill "

"One of Madame Rodin's ladies informed us that the barmaid at the Red had said there were no quiz questions tonight.  So we settled down to a convivial ale-fuelled evening secure in the knowledge that our 3-man Megsonless team could not be defeated!

 The next thing you know we were being invaded by a succession of SPWs demanding to know where tonight's quiz questions were.  We tried to reassure Kieran and co. that we hadn't hidden them behind the third drainpipe on the left in the Gents' disused cubicle (it's actually been out of use since about 1987) but all we could hear was Kieran muttering dark threats to some poor sod down his mobile phone.  Eventually, dear old Roz arrived to save the day with quiz questions in hand having severely berated the Red's barmaid for not looking under the pile of old beer mats in the tap room just to the right of the dartboard.  The night was saved; the SPWs disappeared as suddenly as they had appeared; and we had to face the fact that we were going to have to quiz after all.

The wait had been worth it though.  The general consensus was a good, well-balanced paper from the X-Pats."

The Question of the Week

The Pigs, Getaways, History Men and Snoopy's vote this week for Round 5 Question 1:

For the answer to this and all the week's questions click here.