The Bards power on towards their first league title whilst the Opsimaths slip back; the Charas maintain their winning sequence

Results & Match Reports

Ethel Rodin gained the edge against the Prodigals in a 'good fun' evening at the Cricket Club.

TMTCH fell at home to the Historymen.  Ivor reports:

TMTCH (playing first) raced to a five point lead at half time but round 6 was their nemesis and we held on (for once) to record a win.  A detailed look at the stats however (you know what I’m like) reveal that the most significant factor in the win was an uneven break of 9-4 in the unanswered questions (note I have yielded to peer pressure in nomenclature).  Graham from TMTCH got 5 twos and still ended up on the losing side.

Oh, and I forgot to mention it was a most enjoyable evening with our Derbyshire opponents in a warm pub with cold beer. Young David’s comment “I’ve had that Reverend James before you know” could have been taken out of context were one not aware of the names of guest beers.

Electric Pigs played and lost - just - to a rejuvenated Charabancs who are prancing up the table at a rate of knots.  Andrew comments:

A round of applause from everyone greeted Gerry dredging up Supertramp to win the quiz on the final question.  The lead changed hands a couple of times in this thriller at The FM.  As the Great Gaz said: "Exciting, nip and tuck, one of the best quizzes of the season so far.  An excellent evening!"

Compulsory Meat Raffle perished at home to Albert.  Mary sums up the ambience at the Turnpike:

An enjoyable paper with the added bonus of a Smoke Fairy QM (Barry). The scoring for both teams was inconsistent. For instance, Round 1 was 10 -2 in favour of The Albert; Round 7 was 8-3 to CMR.  A good atmosphere at The Turnpike and wow, isn't the drink cheap?  Mind you, everywhere seems cheaper than the Fletcher Moss these days!

Opsimaths were subjected to a terrible mauling at home to the mighty Bards who really do look unstoppable.  Bard Steve got a mere 7 two-pointers.  Biggest laugh of the evening?  When I congratulated the Bards I did just mention that I thought the Opsimaths had been a tad unlucky.  "Nothing like as unlucky as those on the Atlantic Conveyor who jumped into the sea in the Falkland Islands 23 years before it sunk," said Jim (the question paper - now corrected on this website - said 2005 rather than 1982 for Round 7 Question 8).

Quiz Paper Verdict

Quiz went down well.  I wonder which Smoke Fairy set the 70s/80s band theme?  I can visualise him rustling through his album collection and coming up with those bands so popular with students at the cutting edge of prog rock.  Just for fun I had a look at what is in the bottom of my cupboard to find a rather more eclectic collection including Gilbert O’Sullivan, the Carpenters, Haircut 100, OMD, Wings, Gallagher and Lyle and Soft Cell.  Hardly the making of any kind of round at all.  I also liked the music labels round.  This might be worth a reprise some time in the future (though thinking of questions with Beggar’s Banquet or Parlaphone or RCA in the answer might be a challenge).

We all felt the quiz was a good 'un.  A fair cross section of musical questions, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk) through Glam Rock, Prog Rock, and Punk to Gabba Gabba Hey Hey.  P.S. Here's a clip from a documentary I saw on BBC4 with Sister Rosetta singing 'Didn't It Rain?' in a live gig at Chorlton Railway Station in the late 50's early 60's....amazing!!  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0tnh0xeDzw) and here's another of her singing 'Trouble in Mind' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRm4K7NZm0&feature=related).

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