Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 27/01/10

A welcome first win for the Prodigals at the Swan - the Opsimaths and the Charas confirm the

form book with home victories

Results & Match Reports

Ethel Rodin slipped up at home to give the Prodigals their first victory of the season. Richard Seed was absent from the Prodigals line up last night - he's now in Beijing with Sheila visiting his son, Ben. If you're listening out there, Richard, via the wonders of iPhones and the internet, I walked past DVDN yesterday and it's still in one piece. If the Chinese are as hooked on Mancunian sporting contests as we are led to believe they will be celebrating as much in Beijing over the Prodigals return from their winless season as they will be over bloody United's injury time winner against City. Bon Voyage!!

Opsimaths and Albert kept pretty close tabs on each other up to the half-way point at the Albert Club but then the home team put their foot down to score an impressive win

Electric Pigs went down at the Fletcher Moss to third-placed Charabancs of Fire

TMTCH have been unable to field a team so conceded a walk-over to the History Men

Quiz Paper Verdict

This week the paper was set by the The Bards of Didsbury.

At the Albert Club it was plain sailing with the straightforward wording of the questions providing plenty of quickfire answers. We had finished the quiz and were onto the chat by 9.45. Some of the questions did seem a tad familiar and this view was echoed by James at the Swan who seems to remember quite a few of them cropping up within the past 3 months. Andrew commented that the match at the Fletcher Moss was concluded by 9.50 and he implies that this was no bad thing after the protracted affair that was engendered by last week's Opsimaths paper.

I don't know who QMed at the Fletcher Moss but it was clear that the innuendo afforded to the George Formby question (see Question of the Week) brought the house down.

I'm told that the 'Answer of the Week' was given at the Swan to Round 5 Question 3 ('What was divided into 6 rapes?') with the response "Father Megson's 6 lives!!"

All in all, then, not a typical batch of comments received at website HQ after a night 'on the Bards' - but an enjoyable outing nonetheless. Pity about City.

The Question of the Week

The Pigs, the Charas, the Opsimaths and Albert have all voted for Round 8 Question 1:

When George Formby sang the lines: "It may be sticky, but I never complain, I like to have a nibble at it now and again", to what was he ostensibly referring?

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

Chatterbox

As you will have noticed TMTCH were unable to field a team this week so they conceded to The History Men. Ivor and co. get the league points for a win but if I score them in the league table as if the match points were nil all it will be to the History Men's disadvantage should points difference matter at the end of the season. It seems fairer to me to award the History Men a victory by the same points margin as was the average winning margin in the other 3 matches (45 to 31 as it happens). I hope you think this fair. If there's violent disagreement then I can always reverse the points out of the table next week.

During last night's match at the Albert Club it was suggested that it would add to the value of the website if we recorded each week which team took Round 1 Question 1 in each match. By examining the trend in the scores across all an evening's matches it might be possible to discern any imbalance in the level of difficulty of the questions asked to the two teams. Obviously this depends on all of you providing the information each Wednesday evening/Thursday morning. Where I do have this information I'll indicate the team that goes first on the Fixtures page by underlining its score (e.g. Albert in this week's Opsimaths/Albert clash).