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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 13th April 2016 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 13th April 2016 |
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Calling all website users who are not
regular WithQuiz competitors:
The maintenance of this site is a labour of
love and we are buoyed up in our endeavours when we hear of
the use non-WithQuizzers make of it. The Eggheads
apparently feast on our quiz papers in preparation for their
regular contests with mere quizzing mortals; financial
wizards in London use our questions as lunchtime relaxation
before getting back to their afternoon's efforts at fiddling
the LIBOR rates; ozzie students test themselves on our
papers whilst downing their happy hour tinnies.
What I'd like to know is.....
Who you are, whereabouts you live (city,
country, etc.) and why you access the site
Which bits of the site you read
What could be done to make the site more
'user-friendly' (don't hold back - I know there
are lots of improvements I could make)
What's your view of the content of the Home page
- especially the pictures and their captions
What's your view of the standard of our question
papers
What you really like about the
site - and what you don't like
Any other information that colours in for us the
way you use the site
Any comments really welcome - as brief as you like or as
detailed as a Dave Barras question - please email
mikebath@pfsl.org.uk. |
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The Bards overcame a 14 point handicap disadvantage to beat The Men; with equal handicap starting scores The Dunkers beat Albert; The Shrimps turned their 2 point handicap advantage into a 7 point victory over The History Men |
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Results & Match Reports |
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As ever Kieran sends in his match report....
"An old fashioned Withquiz evening all done
and dusted by 10.15 - and that after wasting ten minutes
trying to work out the peculiarities of Donald Trump's
thought processes (yes there's something quite wrong about
that phrase) and then applying the answer to the somewhat
woolly questions. The Albert team were in the same
mood as us, that is to get the thing over with by a decent
hour and then relax and talk idle nonsense for the remainder
of the evening, which is, after all, the prime pleasure of
these occasions. I've lost count of the number of VATs
I've bought Eveline over the years but it is always a
pleasure to do battle with one of the great stalwart teams
of our league.
Mike Bath did duty as QM and fulfilled the prime directive
for anyone holding that office - he ensured that the quiz
was finished in plenty of time for all participants to chat
about nothing in particular afterwards. With Mike taking
the chair it allowed the doyen of Withquiz QMs, Bob, to make a
rare appearance on the competitive side of the Griffin's
hallowed front room. The Dönitz were all the better
for having him on our side rather than observing his normal
impeccable neutrality. Incidentally
Withquizzers, make the most of Bob if you come across him in
the next few weeks. We know that his name will be all
over the Panama Papers but with some 11 million documents to
go at it may be some weeks yet before he's exposed on the
front page of the Daily Mail (owned by an offshore tax
dodger since you ask). Hopefully by the time the
tabloids are in a hue and cry after him, Bob, ever one step
ahead of the agents of Her Majesty's Revenue, will have
relocated to a jurisdiction even more secretive than that
which the 4th Viscount Rothermere pretends to inhabit.
Enough. I'll leave Jeremy Corbyn to fill in the details. We're there
again next week, starting 7 points down on tonight's
setters, and Bob assures me he will be there to officiate. Note to HMRC: Keep your dogs on the leash for a few days
more, this stuff matters! After next
week things could get rather more complicated depending on
what happens in Nyon on Friday, but nothing like as
complicated as they From the
Albert corner Mike O'B sends this in.... "It was an
enjoyable quiz. We were slow out of the traps and at
one point wondered whether our final score would equal the
Men's handicap but by half time we were triumphantly into
double figures."
Tony reports....
"We had a great night at the Parrs Wood. The new time
rules worked very well given that we had a very sensible
question master who gave people a little leeway to get used
to the new rules. As it was we started a tad late but
had finished before 10.10pm. The Hangmen's Stephen was on good form and by the end of Round Three I thought we were beginning to lose a bit of ground but then our luck turned and the questions began to fall to us and our particular strengths. We thought the final result was perhaps not a fair reflection on the Hangmen who came up with some cracking answers, but all too often they were ones not twos."
From The Men Graham sends this....
The History Men lost to Compulsory Mantis Shrimp. Ivor reports.... "The Shrimps have become the Leicester City de nos jours with yet another well deserved victory over the fading nearly men of our league. They would have won even without their two point handicap start. One of the peculiarities of this year’s handicap system is that despite finishing ninth in the league the three teams above us actually have a positive handicap advantage. However the other strangeness of our league’s cup campaign is that we are guaranteed a place in the Plate semi-finals so silverware (deserved or not) remains possible. So too does the prospect of having to set next week (barring strange results in the other matches). Tonight’s match was relocated to the Turnpike where large screen televisions are no more likely to be found than other 1990s innovations such as outrageously expensive alcohol." |
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Quiz Paper Verdict |
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This week's paper was set by I was at The Griffin QMing so had first hand experience of the QM's burden in enforcing the new timekeeping rules. Well - no problem. After diligently stop-watching the two teams in the first two rounds it was evident that there was going to be no problem with delays. A combination of the quality of the question paper and the acceptance by both teams of the need to keep things moving along meant that we were done and dusted by 10.20pm (which would have been 10.15pm but for the Donald Trump pair in Round 6). Maybe I got things wrong but when Kieran answered the first of the Trump pair with "Cruz was not born in the US" I marked him wrong and passed it over because Canada hadn't been mentioned. Mike said the same as Kieran but included the phrase "born in Canada". After some debate we cancelled the question and reverted to a spare. The same thing happened in reverse with the second Donald Trump question in that Mike mentioned breaking Federal Law but didn't mention emails. I passed it across and got the same answer with emails added. Again we went for a spare. Eventually we got onto question 3 which thankfully was Trumpless. Did I do the right thing as QM? Were the Charas at fault for setting a dodgy pair? Trump aside, both teams at the Griffin agreed that this was an excellent paper and totally in keeping with our new resolution to reserve at least the last 40 minutes or so of any quiz evening for conversation. From the Turnpike Ivor offers his views.... " The Charabancs (as always) served up a splendid mix of the gettable, the ungettable and more than a few of the unforgettable questions that regularly delight us. First prize for the unforgettable category must go to the one about the origin of the 'partridge in a pear tree'. Fortunately we managed to work this one out from our half remembered medical and schoolboy Latin."....and from the Parrs Wood Tony has this to say....
It helped to know something about the rules of consanguinity, and even to know one of the students who blew up Nelson's Pillar - he is now a distinguished SC (Ed: Small capital? School certificate? Signal corps? South Carolina? Special Constable? Scandium? Which of my dictionary's versions of 'SC' is he?), in Dublin. I felt it was a pity there was a bingo round but that did not spoil the fun. To me 'TSOM' had to be 'The Sound of Music' whilst 'LOM' should have been 'Loads of Money'. Happily I always fell for the Tea and Sympathy line in my youth when I had a French pen-friend who was conceived after her father had left Gers and Condom behind (Ed: Prizes for anyone who can parse Tony's last sentence without resorting to mucky humour)." Mike O'B's feedback.... "Like the DDs we were frustrated by the Trump questions and reached the stage where we wanted to shove Megson's crozier up his confessional box but there were many interesting questions to make up for this." Kieran's take on this paper was.... "A reasonable Charas paper with some decent themes and a few of the 'you only put that really duff question in there to try to find an eighth to fit the theme didn't you?' variety. I'm speaking up for all of us who play in seat 4 every week. We have nothing to lose but our feelings of being hard done by. Eight unanswereds going marginally against our visitors but nothing any of us could have a serious gripe about. A perfectly enjoyable evening. Even Barry, surrounded by some 'verging on the triumphant' blues, was happy enough given that West Ham's rather pathetic efforts to oppose his first love were being shown on every screen in our supposedly blue fortress." |
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The Question of the Week |
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This week Ivor nominates Round 1 Question 8:
For the answer to this and all the week's questions click here. |
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Chatterbox |
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Out of interest - and prompted by comments from the 'Second Best WithQuiz Team of All Time' (the History Men) I have recalculated the WithQuiz Composite League Table I published in this spot at the start of 2016 taking account of the 2015/16 End of Season Table. As predicted - sadly - The History Men drop down a couple of notches to become 'The Fourth Best WithQuiz Team of All Time' making way for the late, great St Catherine's team (hope you can this see from above Mike Heale). Elsewhere The Opsimaths nip up a place to third and get within striking distance of second place if they have a good run next year.
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Dunkin' Dönitz beat
Albert in a close encounter at the Griffin.
could get for Senor 'Snake Hips' Guardiola in the next month or so. 'Football, bloody
hell' as someone who knew a thing or two about it once
said."
"Despite
a defeat after starting 14 points up I have to say it was a
great night at the Parrs Wood - and two judges in
attendance!! Don't know if Jonathan is in line to take
over Tony's role should he retire. Great quiz and
I have to say we completed the whole affair in 1hr 38mins.
Interesting to see if anybody else managed that time for
tonight's paper."
The Charabancs of Fire.
"The quiz itself was enjoyable and well set in the traditional spirit of the end
of season knock outs. The hand of Megson was clearly discernible and I
also detected a slight Damienesque taste here and there.