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Val Draper Cup (Round 2)
Prodigals lost to KFD
KFD just edged out the Prods - winning on the tie
break to go into Round 2
 Kieran
sees the light - at last!
Thanks to the Prodigals for agreeing to bring this
match forward by a week so that the blue two thirds
of the KFD squad can be at, or at least focus on,
The Etihad next Wednesday and what should be a
thunderous clash with Franco's pet team Real
Madrid. Polite guests that we are we repaid our
hosts by recording our first end of season knockout
victory for six years. In a mimicry of last
night or a harbinger of next week the scores were
level at the end of normal time and we squeaked
through on the tie break by being a few hundred feet
closer to the correct height of Everest.
The top order of Barry and Martin was yet again the
foundation of our victory. My contribution was
limited to knowing - I have no idea why - where the
Ship Canal starts, and pretty much the entire script
of The Godfather word perfect. Not that that
was any use when Martin couldn't hear my explanation
from that round and so failed to score a two when
Khartoum raised its severed head a few questions
later.
The Prodigals were super sporting as always,
admitting that they would never have got near Azalea
when Mike uncharacteristically mangled their chance
of a bonus in the Valencia round and agreeing that
the horse's head handle question could stand if only
because Martin might have landed a two if we'd gone
to a spare.
The Val Draper cup draw had the top four playing
each other in the quarter finals just as the
heavyweights were all grouped together in the same
half of the Champions League shoot out. So
next week the top two will face off for the right to
stuff us in the semi while most of KFD will be
watching the likely Big Cup winner knock out the
next most likely winner a round or two too early.
It's great to still have a chance of silverware when
you leave the house of a Wednesday evening to go to
the game and it's still light.
A Depression Tale from Salford
(R2/Q4)
 Mike
was QMing in the Club's back lounge
A most
enjoyable evening spent in the company of Prodigals
'Classic' (Anne-Marie, Jimmy, Richard and John) and
KFD 'Classic' (Barry, Martin, David and Kieran).
Danny was watching on for good measure (he was on a
brief day return to Manchester from Luxembourg) -
and Stella started watching the match but then
decided to nip home to watch The Race Across the
World on BBC1, only to return late on to see our
last knockings.
The
scores were fairly close throughout with KFD keeping
their noses in front most of the time but a slightly
better alcoholic slogan knowledge in Round 8 landed
the Prods on even pegging only for the tie-break to
deny them a passage to Round 2.
Memorable moments? Well Kieran rumbled the
Godfather theme and had the rest of his team
well drilled in likely Godfather links before
even the first question of that round had been
fired. Kieran also managed to pluck Eastham
Locks out of the back of his noddle to everyone's
astonishment. Finally a nod to Jimmy who
worked out the Wodka/Varrington slogan when it
really mattered, to earn the tie.
Anne Hegerty - at least that's what I thought
they said
(R1/Q8)
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Val Draper Cup (Round 1)
Albert lost to History Men
The History Men steam on to Round 2 leaving
Albert to set for next week
 Mike
praises the consistency of his losing crew
Well there's nothing nothing like maintaining a
consistent run of results - unfortunately a losing
run in our case. I can vaguely recall a
different time when Jeremy knew things and Eveline
regaled us with her latest court appearance for GBH.
Ah, happy days!
On a far more serious note I have to report that my
advice to quizzers to show professional restraint
regarding the Whitehead posting has to date resulted
in over a hundred hits. Even allowing for
casual visitors to the site this means many quizzers
proved to be too weak to resist the lure of petty
scandal. The person identified so far is Chara
Damian. No surprise there - he is even capable
of making 100 hits himself.
David's Masterpiece
(R7/Q6)
Quiz paper set by...
... The Bards
Average Aggregate score 76.5
A pretty good paper prepared in short order by the
Bards. Plenty to enjoy but I think, at the
Club, the favourite rounds were the Godfather-themed
Round 5 and the excellent final round with the
initialised versions of famous slogans for alcoholic
drinks. Much fun was had with these slogans
although Jimmy thought the final question with the
muddled up 'V' and 'W' was a tad harder than the
rest. Needing two for a victory John had to
confer and Jimmy slotted home for one point meaning
the match went to a tie break which KFD eventually
won.
Maybe a bit of a slip by the setters in allowing the
capital of Sudan to crop up twice in short order but
we forgave this in the context of an enjoyable and
very close-fought contest. Many thanks, Bards!
MOBO's Vile Brew
(R8/Q2)
...
so what did Mike O'B make of it ...
The quiz itself was fair enough and produced a good
aggregate. Julien's wife Jo made her debut as
a QM and coped well with the appalling behaviour
presented to her. We particularly enjoyed the
alcohol acronym round. Some of us could even
remember some of the defunct brands. Who,
having tasted it, could forget the vile brew that
was Watneys? Ah, the pleasure of staggering up
the street to a party bowed down by the weight of a
Party 7. I do believe it actually destroyed
the digestive systems of all who drank it.
... and Kieran's verdict ...
A decent paper from the Bards, eight unanswereds (I
got three of them, have I ever commented on the
difficulty of questions set for seat four?), Martin
and Richard were equal as MVP with five twos
apiece.
Even banned from Queasyjet
(R1/Q6)
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Question
of the Week
The Prods and KFD really enjoyed Round 8's alcoholic
advertising slogans, so I've chosen Question 8 from
this round ...
VWFV (Definitely not from Russia)?
For the answer to this and all the week's other
questions click
here.
Tarts galore from the lowlands
(R1/Q1)
... and
also
We
know that many quizzers read this website on a
weekly basis and use our question papers for all
sorts of purposes: fun, personal challenge, revision
for their own quiz competitions, to get one up on
their work colleagues, etc. Some of you may
even browse our match reports and enjoy the pictures
we compile on our Home page to illustrate the week's
question paper.
Well, we have a request.
For
our end-of-season evening on May 22nd, when all the
teams gather in one place, we have a friendly 'table
quiz' to top and tail the presentation of the
season's gongs.
This
year we'd very much like to compile our
end-of-season quiz to include your contributions.
If you like, now's a chance to get your own back.
Please email your questions and answers to me (mikebath@pfsl.org.uk)
attaching your name, and details of the part of the
country - or the world - in which you're based.
I'll edit the questions into our end-of-season
paper. If you wish I'll attribute the source
of the questions both on the evening and on the
website subsequently (tell me if you want to remain
an anonymous contributor).
If
possible send pairs of questions with each pair on
roughly the same topic. Feel free to send as
many pairs as you like.
The
deadline for your submissions to give me time to
prepare the paper, is May 10th.
Many
thanks!
Last
week I mentioned Michael Taylor's book about
slave-trading, The Interest. Well, I
must be on a retainer as this week I mention his new
book, Impossible Monsters, reviewed in the
latest edition of The New Statesman. It's all
about dinosaurs (obviously his time in WithQuiz was
a vital element of his research) and how the
Victorians' discovery of fossils affected the
accepted wisdom of the religious of the time.
The NS sums up its review as follows: "Taylor's
story is not a new one, but he marshals his cast
expertly and shows lucidly why it mattered so much."
Oh,
and here's a related quiz question, the answer to which is
to be found in Michael's book: What started at 6pm
on October 22nd 4004 BC according to Archbishop Ussher of Armagh?
A Terrible Cathedral in Moscow
(R3/Q7)
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