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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 18th January 2017 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 18th January 2017 |
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Victories in line with the form-book - apart from the Bards beating Ethel at the Cricket Club |
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The Results |
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"Another defeat for the gallant Hangers. We were ahead after the 'FOUR Letter' round, but ended up fuelled by four letter words at the finish."
"The Charas' recent run of wins came to a juddering halt when, to their consternation, they came up against a team not named 'The Opsimaths' and were so confused by this fact that they struggled to focus and were unfairly taken advantage of by their red-hot opponents. I ask you, what are we poor confused Charas supposed to do? In all seriousness, it was a lovely evening for losing a quiz against a bunch of top notch opponents who are currently the undisputed best team in the league. We trailed in every round and did well to keep the final difference to a mere 9 points. We've had worse evenings!" ....and Kieran the winner's perspective.... "Bob returned sporting Lima's equivalent of 'Kiss Me Quick' headgear - a plain cap with 'P-E-R-U' picked out in bright lettering on the crown. Who knew that Shining Path had the hat concession on Swinton Market? The
front room at the Griffin, overheated as ever, with
the beer varying in quality during the course of the
evening. It's good to be home. One thing
that doesn't vary is the good humour of the Charas
and their belief that Wednesday evenings should
consist of rambling funny conversations with old Speaking of which......... no I can't. But I'm considering adding Catalunya to the 'Good Ol' US' on my list of places I want God to wreak his most vengeful havoc upon. Highlight of the night was Babar the elephant's wife. Seriously, I know we're post-fact and nothing can be believed anymore, but elephants have wives? No matter, magnificent team work from Martin: 'I think it begins with a C..... Celestine?' and Barry 'Celeste that's it!' secured one of our nine bonus points. That's the sort of inspiration we've rediscovered this season that's won us many points in some very tight games. We always answer conferred questions through me, rather than any other member of the team shouting out, but I couldn't bring myself to vocalise the answer to Round 1 Question 5 so Barry had to speak the 'She Who Must Not Be Named' words. It got us a point and I hope he doesn't suffer the wrath of supercilious, poisonous, patronising, hand-wringing, brain-deficient, bien-pensants, for daring to utter those words. Ah that's better! Now I can think about twelve wins from twelve games and the Bards next week. Surely they must have a win in them sometime soon? Maybe they'll rediscover their title winning form tonight against Ethel - or maybe not (ED: Actually they did). Whatever, we won't be taking them lightly, but we can be happy with the way things are going so far."
Opsimath Nick (by Ivor's reckoning both MVP and Jonah) picked up 6 twos and two unanswerables, whilst Anne was the MVP on the History Men's side with 4 twos. The History Men's David was in Hong Kong so Ivor's wife Alison (once again) stepped in nobly to fill the gap. I was 'rotating' so happily officiated as QM. It was an extremely jolly - verging on rambunctious - affair between two sets of quizzers who refuse to take life too seriously. I'd like to claim that our boisterousness cleared the front TV-less parlour but the truth is it was empty when we started and nobody even put their head round the door throughout the the whole evening. As QM I sat under the 'Roy Grainger' plaque conscious that I was unable to emulate the sternness Roy used to exhibit in those far off days when he QMed for Old Erin and their predecessor Red Lion teams. During the post-match conflab we took to estimating the number of WithQuiz questions on the website; we think it might be approaching 36,000!
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The Paper |
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Some of the comments below are quite flattering but at the Red we found it pretty hard going with 15 unanswered questions throughout the evening - too many for our comfort. I suspect the problem for us was the very slow start with just 5 points scored in Round 1. Thereafter it got going and finished at a canter. Perhaps a lesson for future setters: put your easiest round up front to get everybody in the mood! At the Parrs Wood Anne-Marie thought it an "enjoyable quiz paper" whilst Graham sent this review.... "Thoroughly entertaining quiz by the Shrimps, enjoyed by both the Prodigals and ourselves.....apart, that is, from the Chemistry/Physics questions which were not to my taste - and the em-Barras-ment of Il Capitano Dave getting his Derbyshire question wrong!" At the Griffin Damian thought.... "Tonight's quiz fare from our fellow Turnpikers, the Mantis Shrimps was an intriguing assortment of pairs and themes that contained some gold nuggets but also bowled us with plenty of googlies (to coin one of those cricket terms that Roisin is so fond of). The 'Peak District themed' round was a nice idea but kind of falls a bit flat if you're not too familiar with the area or have only passed through Derbyshire villages once in a blue moon.
The Shrimps certainly exhibited a sadistic relish
for raising our hopes when they started questions
talking about THIS year's Golden Globe winners only
to steer the question in the direction of PAST
Golden Globe winners! We enjoyed the hidden
Monty Python theme in the last round but I was
....whilst at the Fletcher Moss this was Mike O'B's verdict.... "Oh how we oldsters struggled with some of the rounds set by the young folk. Surely this was revenge for having inflicted Wilfred Pickles on them a few weeks back. Readers your hearts would have been rent in two at the sight of Jeremy flailing around for the answer to the Ryan Gosling question and coming up with 'Inflatable Me'. The Peak District round made us believe that they had hacked into the Barras on-line account and made off with some of his prize questions. Although on the hard side, it did produce a very competitive contest for the first five rounds with the teams never more than a point apart and the lead regularly changing hands." ....and finally at the Cricket Club Mike Hansford (who was QMing for the Bards in their match against Ethel) reports some controversy over the pronunciation of the French version of the surnames of the Tintin detectives. Perhaps the question should have specified that the answers should be spelled out as well as spoken. |
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Question of the Week |
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For the answer to this and all the week's questions click here. |
At
the Parrs Wood Hotel The
Men They Couldn't Hang lost to The Prodigals
in the lowest scoring match of the evening.
Graham sums up....
friends occasionally interrupted by a quiz question
or two. The Charas beat the Opsimaths home and away
either side of Christmas and we thanked them by
putting them to the sword of a Donuts team
unrecognisable from the shambolic rabble of recent
seasons.
At
an uncharacteristically quiet Red Lion The History Men
continued their losing run against The Opsimaths.
The last 'Historic' victory was on October 26th in
an era when truth was all the rage and Hillary
Clinton looked to be set for the White House.
On the visiting side of the quiz table the Opsimaths
were pleased to turn up and not see a gang of
Charabancs facing them, and they responded
accordingly scoring a comfortable victory.
This week the paper was set by Compulsory Mantis
Shrimp. This was a toughish paper with an
average aggregate of 68 - 5 less than the season's
overall average. Rather like last week's
offering from the Prodigals it evoked some
contradictory opinions.
aggrieved
to see that 'Denis Moore', my inspired answer to the
question about the Canadian broadcaster, was wrong.
I maintain that my answer was better and have
unanimously decided to vote it 'Best Wrong
Answer Of The Evening That Should Have Been Right'.
So there!!!"
This week the vote goes to Round
6 (the Peak District themed Round) Question 1. With the words 'bacon' and
'breakfast' in the question some considerable time was spent by both teams at
the Red Lion trying to recollect the names of Derbyshire villages named after
the ingredients of a full English breakfast. 'Black Pudding' and 'Sausage'
were considered before the unlikely 'Bakewell' got the vote....