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8th May 2019

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All hail the Prods who add the End of Season Quiz Evening title to the League trophy

& all hail the History Men who add the Dave Barras Question of the Season award to their earlier Val Draper Cup triumph

End of Season Friendly Quiz

Winners: The Prodigals

Runners Up: Ethel Rodin

Third place: Compulsory Mantis Shrimp

The Prodigals just got the better of Ethel Rodin (by 1.5 points) to win the evening's quiz and pick up the wine.

Before that Clive Berry (once skipper of the Prodigals) joined us to present all the season's trophies and give us some insights into the genesis of the super quizzing machine that the Prodigals have become (or at least that's what Anne-Marie told me to say).


25 years on and they've done it!

Jimmy, Dave, Michael and Anne-Marie with proud former Prod Skip, Clive


Clive presents Nick with the mystery Pre-season WIST Cup


As Clive presented away Howell (WithQuiz's official snapper) clicked away and if you want to see the evidence then follow the link here,

...and for those of you that weren't at the Club perhaps you'd like to try your hand at the quiz paper tackled on the evening.  If so follow the link here.

...and as last season our trusty QM Mike H has selected his own personal favourite 100 questions of the season.  You can find them here.

As for the 'Question of the Season' all 10 WithQuiz teams voted early in the evening for their favourite from amongst the 30 'Questions of the Week' that had been nominated throughout the season.  By a short head the History Men beat the Charabancs into second and third places.  All is revealed in the table below.

So that's it until late September when it all starts over again.  Ciao!


...and Champion of Champions Shrimp Richard has the last laugh


'Question of the Season' results....

 

Team

Question

Answer

1

The History Men

What is the nickname of the New Zealand Men’s Basketball team?

The Tall Blacks

2

The Charabancs of Fire

So you are lounging in a pub in downtown Buenos Aires, watching the football.  In small letters on the top left of the screen it says: ARSE 1: NOB 1.  Which two Argentinian league clubs are playing?

Arsenal v Newell's Old Boys

3

The Charabancs of Fire

(as part of 'Knocked Out United')

A survey conducted in France in the early years of the 20th century credited what increasingly popular invention with an average increase in the height of the French population?  The reason given was that it significantly reduced the number of marriages between blood relations. 

The Bicycle