Withington Pub Quiz League - quizbiz 27/10/10

Stockport retain the WIST Cup with a convincing victory

Results & Match Reports

WIST Pre-season Cup

WithQuiz were outgunned in the first half of Stockport-style rounds and never managed to claw their way back as the Stockport Quiz League notched up another convincing win to keep the WIST Cup over the other side of the Mersey. The final margin was 8 points.

WithQuiz skipper, Tony Hammond, and Stockport supremo, Mike Wagstaffe, both made half time substitutions to ensure all who wanted got a game.

At the close Tony nicked the Cup for a mere minute or two - just as long as it took to present it back to Mike Wagstaffe for safekeeping for the next 12 months.....

Quiz Paper Verdict

The paper was set and QMed by myself (Mike Bath) on behalf of the WithQuiz League.

The questioning rattled along at a reasonable pace and very few questions remained unanswered by either team - always a good sign.

In a brand new departure for WithQuiz evenings I introduced a music/sound round as Round 2 (the Stockport-style written round of 10 questions) using my laptop linked by HDMI cable to the Club's widescreen TV in the back lounge. Fortunately all equipment worked perfectly so that the sound clips were clear and audible. The questions in this round weren't too hard and the presence of a running theme made them that much more gettable. In the event Stockport got all 10 right and WithQuiz just dropped points on one. I think we might try this again next year providing the equipment and ambient conditions are suitable.

I think the only slip up I made in the paper was in the 'Blockbuster' GIS question when I should have asked for the Conference Play-off losers in 2014 rather than this year. Mea culpa! I was just keen to to get a North East question in for Dave Barras who, in the event, wasn't present anyway.

Hard luck to Stockport's Andrea who went all the way with the 'JTJYBNJT' question only to let 'tomorrow' slip out rather than 'today' as the final word - perhaps the WithQuiz team's only piece of good luck all evening.

The Question of the Week

On this the first week of the season I forgot to ask for nominations before everybody had drifted off into the night, so I have gone out on a limb and nominated my own favourite. It was the first of the 'Blockbuster' Round 5 questions clued 'ITITAPT' which was shrewdly chosen by Nick Mills on the WithQuiz team:

Which song provided Mel Blanc with his only chart success reaching number 9 in the 1951 US Billboard Charts?

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

Chatterbox

And so to the start of the League season on Wednesday September 30th (at 8.15pm hopefully!). All the fixtures are up on the Fixtures page. The Charas set for the first round of matches so it should be a cracking kick off (no pressure then, Gerry). See you all soon.