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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 31st January 2018 |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUIZBIZ 31st January 2018 |
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Results & Match Reports |
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Electric Pigs lost to Mantis Shrimp Ethel Rodin lost to Opsimaths Prodigals lost to Albert Charabancs lost to History Men |
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"Our match against the Electric Pigs got off to a shaky start as we were a few points behind at the end of Round 1. However we soon turned things around and were able to extend our lead slowly but surely throughout the match, finishing the night 19 points ahead. The Pigs were excellent company as always and put up a valiant fight in the face of some tricky questions. Despite losing they were nevertheless able to pull some impressive answers out of the hat."
Ethel Rodin lost to their visitors, The Opsimaths but it seems both teams struggled with the paper and thus the result was a bit of a lottery. James reports that alarm bells started ringing for him when his first question of the evening resulted in a fruitless debate about which country's population were most dependent on chips as part of their diet.
Mike O'B from the victorious visitors offers these further thoughts.... "Well the paper was certainly challenging enough but you have to take the rough with the rough. Now the Albert must fall silent until the end of February. Jeremy will irritate the penguin population of Antarctica; Ashton will continue his career as a quiz whore in the Macclesfield League, the Sett Valley League and the Bolton League - he's like the eponymous heroine of Terry Sothern's cult novel Candy who'll go with anyone because 'they need me'. Eveline will find a public hanging to attend and baby mice will gambol in the Paddle of Rebuke's hair. As for me I'll become like the narrator in Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast staring into the void and repeating over and over again 'Is anybody there?' Farewell."
The Charabancs of Fire lost at the
Turnpike to The History
Men. Ivor sends in this account....
Tonight was the first super blue blood moon for
almost a century and a half, and we spent it in the
comfort of the Turnpike. Sadly we did not have a
super blue blood quiz and as the scores suggest
there was not much fun tonight. We did not even get
much pleasure from our 12 point victory. There were
25 unanswered questions and only 9 twos between us.
The Charas had three rounds where they failed to
score a point at all. The last round of 8 questions
had 7 unanswereds; this really is not good,
especially if teams are neck to neck. I do not
think we gave up at that point but perhaps we should
have had an inkling of how unfathomable it would be
when Jane the QM smiled and said 'You think it has
been bad so far…'
Low scoring quizzes can still be interesting - most
however are not. There might well be aficionados of
the tram system, and statisticians of baby
conception and baby holiday venues, but not in the
Turnpike tonight."
...and defeated cleric Meggers adds this....
"In a hastily convened post match consultation Dr
Ivor and Dr Tim concluded that there was a vas
deferens between the mental capacities of
the respective teams at the Turnpike last night.
Afterwards Fr Megson and his team of mental misfits
were gracious enough to humour their vanquishers by
pretending to enjoy their free drink. They
would have been willing to humour them a second time
in this respect but sadly the bar had long since
closed." |
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Quiz Paper Verdict |
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This week the paper was set by The Bards of Didsbury The average aggregate was 52.8 |
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A very low-scoring paper tonight (in fact the lowest of the season to-date eclipsing the previous lowest set by the Bards before Christmas) with quite a few grumbles from those who took part. I was ensconced at the Etihad watching a lily-livered referee allow West Brom to hack City's players all over the park, so can only report second-hand.
When one of our longest serving and
best established squads (the Charabancs) spend three
whole rounds without scoring any points it can't be
much fun.
"We generally enjoyed the paper, with a number of
questions causing furious conferring on both sides.
James relished the football questions, even though
both of them ultimately went unanswered. Both
James and Adam appreciated the inclusion of more
science questions, which definitely worked in our
favour. Having said this however, the last
round was pretty unpopular, given that about half of
the questions, particularly the first two, could
only be answered by guesswork."
To which Gerry adds his own sideways take on
the paper from The Turnpike's perspective....
"The quiz itself was a brave attempt to merge the
style of the 19th century pub quiz with that
of the15th century Mystery Plays. It did not
quite succeed in achieving the pungency of The
Harrowing of Hell from the Wakefield cycle but
it came perhaps too close for comfort." |
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....and the Dave Barras Question of the Week award this week has been nominated by Shrimp James and goes to Round 2 Question 8:
For the answer to this and all the week's other questions click here. |
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Fr Megson |
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The Collected Works |
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As part of the 40th celebrations I thought I'd copy all the Fr Megson articles that Gerry's written since his first piece in February 2003 and put them in one place with an index at the start. If you click here you can browse all 143 of them! (and I've now added bookmarks and hyperlinks to make navigation to and from the index at the front of these articles easier) |
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....and also |
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I've just received this email entitled: Quiz in the North event on Saturday 24th March: call to UK quiz leagues for players
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The Electric Pigs
lost at home to Compulsory Mantis
Shrimp who thereby return to the top of the
table on points difference. Rachael
gives us her take on events at the Fletcher Moss....
The Prodigals
lost at home to Albert in a low-scoring
match. Home team skipper Anne-Marie was not
impressed with a match aggregate of a mere 45
points, a massive tally of 26 unanswered questions,
a minimal 7 twos throughout the evening and a score
in the final round of 1-0 (to the Prodigals as it
happens).
"Christmases
seem to come every three months when one gets older,
and meetings with the Charabancs seem to happen
every three weeks. Actually because of the
intricacies of league fixture-setting algorithms it
WAS only three weeks ago. I would not be surprised
if a knowledge of natural logs base e, kibibytes and
electron volts was required to engineer such a
series of meetings between our fading but still
hopeful teams.
Ethel's James suggests that if 'Unanswered
Questions' had been playing as a third team, with
two points per question, they would have walked away
with an easy win. That said Rachael
did have some kind words for tonight's setters....
