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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 13th January 2016 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 13th January 2016 |
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Wins for the Bards, the Opsimaths, Albert, the Shrimps and the Pigs - whilst undaunted by tonight's defeat the History Men meet their date with destiny as they are declared the second best WithQuizzers of all time (behind you know who) (see '...and also' below) |
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Results & Match Reports |
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Graham reports.... "A goalless draw at the Etihad? Steve should have been at the Parr's Wood where a defeat for the Hangers would have been far more entertaining. Even though another loss may have stuck in Il Capitano Dave's craw, it was a quiz enjoyed by all and admirably QMed by Gilly. Always a pleasure and never a chore! Many thanks to the Charas for the questions and to The Pigs for being....well just the Electric Pigs."
The Opsimaths ended up comfortable victors over the The History Men at the Albert Club.
In a wildly fluctuating first half the home team
were down by two points at the break. The second half,
however, was one way traffic with the Opsis motoring to a 15
point winning margin. Stato Ivor revealed after the final
whistle that there had been just 4 unanswered questions falling
3 - 1 to the History Men; that Howell had been 'The Most Valued
Player' of the evening; that he had been the 'Jonah' with two of
the unanswered questions falling to himself; but that the key
stat was the 14 twos earned by the home team compared to the 8
earned by his own squad. The match was excellently QMed by
visiting Chara, John Dennison, while I took the evening off at
the Etihad arriving just before curtains to savour the friendly
social chat that rounded off the evening. And finally many
thanks to Nick's friend, Mark, who guested
The Bards of Didsbury beat Ethel Rodin by
a clear margin of 17 points at the Cricket Club.
Tony reports....
"We had a very enjoyable evening quizzing against one of our
traditional rivals. The match was played in a good spirit
of sportsmanship - for instance Question 4 in Round Two had QM
Eric giving no points for our answer 'Antique Dealers'.
Ethel insisted that this was the correct answer and that we
should have the point as the answer given ('all appeared in
sitcoms') did not seem a close enough link between Windsor
Davies et al. Having reluctantly accepted Ethel's
generosity and given the Bards the point Eric then somewhat
sheepishly admitted that if he had read the next line of text he
might have seen the words 'about antiques' in the answer given
in the paper!"
Albert beat Dunkin' Dönitz at the Fletcher
Moss to get their new year off to a rousing start.
Mike O'B sends this
report....
"This quiz started badly for us as chemical
elements are not our strong point and the DDs are much better at
this sort of thing. However after that 'blip' of a start
matters improved and we scored consistently throughout the rest
of the quiz, winning by a safe margin."
Compulsory Mantis Shrimp at full strength
and full of the joys of wedded life (BTW many congratulations to
Rachael and Adam from all your friends across WithQuiz) romped
home to a rousing victory over The Prodigals at the Turnpike
with what Anne-Marie describes as "an awesome performance".
Rachael's own summary is as follows....
"After a very convivial evening at the Turnpike in the company
of the Prodigals - who are always wonderful company and who we
always look forward to playing - we managed to finish the night
ahead. We got away to an early lead but, in true 'Shrimp'
fashion, we found our lead eaten away to nothing by half time,
and then we were tied for a couple of rounds. Nevertheless
the last two rounds saw us pull ahead and get the new year off
to a victorious start."
It's great to be back after missing the last two matches before
Christmas, especially since one of them was an all too rare
victory, but I can promise not to miss any matches due to the
'honeymoon' excuse ever again!" |
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Quiz Paper Verdict |
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A bit of a curate's egg this one. Certainly a healthy enough average aggregate at 76.0 but clearly issues with the balance of the difficulty. Match reports indicate that there were many more points to be had in Rounds 4 to 8 for the team that went second in the first half and first in the second half. Plenty of praise for the level of interest generated by the paper but at least one burst of disgruntlement from the direction of the Fletcher Moss for some "terrible catholic bullshit drivel" (a visit to the confessional in Ladybarn for you Kieran, I think). On the same subject a rousing vote of confidence for the 'Father Megson excommunication' question in Round 5. At the Albert Club the difficulty balance was certainly in evidence with (for instance) Round 2 going 9 - 1 to the History Men and Round 3 8 - 1 to the Opsis. The Opsis (who went second in the first half) won the second half 29 - 12! Further evidence of the balance problem is echoed in Howell's recollection of Anne's comments at the end of various rounds: "Hey, this is a great quiz!" (at the end of Round 2) - "This quiz isn't too bad!" (at the end of Round 4) - "This effing quiz is getting on my frigging nerves!" (at the end of Round 6) - "*****************" (at the end of Round 8). Let's hear feedback from the other matches.... Mike O'B....
"We
enjoyed the Megson round and see it as a tribute to a man who has
done so much to give the Church the reputation it currently has.
It was strange to see a dingbats pair - this is almost archaeology
in quiz terms. Eveline claims to remember an entire quiz of
dingbats set many years ago, and here they are again like corpses
floating up from an ancient shipwreck."
Tony....
"All agreed that the second half of the season got off
to a rousing start with lots of interesting questions. But
what a poorly balanced quiz it turned out to be! By the end of
Round 3 when the game stood at 16 all I was apologising to my team
mates for opting to play second. The balance of question
difficulty was tending strongly against us, particularly in the
Periodic Table round. Nevertheless at half time there was only
one point between the teams. The second half, unfortunately
for the Thinkers, was even more unbalanced but this time it suited
us very much indeed as the final score shows. There were
Tony then added in a
second email..,..
"Upon a moment or two's reflection I decided to
be more scientific and actually look at the score sheet.
At half time it was 22 - 21 to us and there had been only two
unanswered questions both coming the way of the Bards. In
the second half we managed 7 twos and made 4 steals. There
were 4 unanswered questions throughout the evening which broke 3
- 1 against Ethel. As a result, and on consideration, I
would wish to tone down my earlier criticism of the balance of
difficulty of the question pairing."
...whilst James has a slightly different recollection of
the stats from the Bards/Ethel match....
"Having just read Tony's summary I think he is
mistaken....according to Roddy's scoresheet, there were 5
unanswered questions all of which came to Ethel. And
what's more the second half went exactly the way of the
Opsimath's game, completely unbalanced by a factor of about 2:1
(28:14).
A shame because it was a good quiz really - and at half time had
looked like it was heading for a close result. The better
team on the night won - but it should have been by less than a
handful points rather than by an armful. Oh, and at the
risk of upsetting Rachael (see below), I thought Cabin
Pressure was a load of shite!"
....and finally Rachael....
"The paper was enjoyed by all. We found the questions to
be generally well-balanced, interesting and fair. We all
enjoyed the one about the last Catholic priest to crown an
English Monarch, and I was personally delighted to see my
favourite comedy series of all time, Cabin Pressure, pop
up in a quiz not written by me!" |
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The Question of the Week |
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For the answer to this and all the week's questions click here. |
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Chatterbox |
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No surprises as to the top spot, but who would have thought that
the History Men were the second greatest WithQuiz team of all
time (a bit of an exaggeration but you get my drift).
I suspect Ivor and his colleagues will be
delighted to see that, despite never having won the league
title, they rank so highly. Here's the
table....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This week Only Connect has come calling again. I've just received this invitation to all WithQuizzers....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...and finally another email and flyer from TVquizsphere - this time about a new show called The Code: www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/takepart/the_code If you’re up for kick starting 2016 with a new challenge then this is for you!
Best wishes, The Code Casting Team"
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The Men They Couldn't Hang
were narrowly defeated by The Electric Pigs in the first match of the new year at the
Parr's Wood.
as
the Opsimaths' fourth team member.
Kieran did send me a few of his more trenchant
words but let's just sum up by saying the Dunkers did not enjoy
the paper.
This week the Pigs, the Opsimaths, TMTCH and the
History Men all plumped for Round 5 Spare Question 2:
Last weekend whilst preparing the question paper for next week
the combined Opsimaths fell to speculating
about the success of
the various WithQuiz teams across the 16 years in which accurate
league stats have been kept on this website. With this in
mind I have prepared an overall league table covering the
seasons 1999/2000 to 2014/2015 inclusive. I have taken all
the league points gained by a team during the 16 seasons (i.e. 2
for a win, 1 for a tie and 0 for a defeat) and divided this by
the number of matches played by that team during the same
period. Many methods for compiling this table suggested
themselves but this seemed to me the fairest way of ranking
teams across the years. For the purpose of this exercise I have ignored
the team name changes that have afflicted us from time to time
(so, for instance, Dunkin' Dönitz includes all the previous
incarnations of the team that plays at the Griffin).
