Congratulations to the History Men for being League runners up - and to the Charabancs of Fire and the Opsimaths for qualifying for next season's WIST Champions Cup as, respectively, 3rd and 4th placed teams

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Next week sees the start of the Val Draper Cup competition with the 6 top League teams slugging it out in the qualifying round

The Results

Albert, with Evelyn and Nick away, were down to 3 and lost to the Opsimaths at the Fletcher Moss

Snoopy's Friends lost out at home to close rivals Albert Park ending up just below them in the final table

Electric Pigs couldn't dent the mighty Napier Girls going down at the Albert Club

History Men lived up to their league placing with a home win against Ethel Rodin - Ivor writes:

"This was the first quiz game we have played al fresco.  Who would have thought so many people would want to watch a meaningless soccer match?  We relocated to the beer garden and had a quiet time under the umbrellas and the electric heaters (so much for carbon footprints).   All very level until the last few rounds.  First two themes were quite well buried until later answers - though the theme 'all answers contain an adjective' is possibly only one step up from 'all answers contain a word that is commonly found in a dictionary'.

It was interesting to be reminded of JFK’s method of avoiding headaches which certainly sounds better than taking two paracetamol.  One can only speculate that the nurses in Dallas Parkland Hospital did not do enough to relieve his final headache.  I wonder if this constitutes medical negligence?"

The Men TCH ended their first WithQuiz league season with a defeat at the hands of the  Charabancs of Fire - despite their basement placing everybody has enjoyed the company of TMTCH this winter - and they have to be in the running for being setters of the best quiz paper of the season

The Paper

X-Pats set this week.  General consensus (although Damian - below - begs to differ) seems to be that it was a good quiz with a suitable mixture of themes and pairings.  As is mentioned elsewhere the 'all answers contain an adjective theme' was scraping the barrel.  Why bother saying there is a theme at all?

Kieran writes:

"Pretty good quiz although the adjectives theme was desperately weak.  Question of the week was the Kennedy question to Macmillan - though I don't believe even JFK said 'every two hours' - and I'd have loved to have seen the look on SuperMac's face when he had to think of an answer! "

and Damian:

"The last quiz of the season was a bit of a damp squib in our view with a tad too many rather obscure themes (I'm still trying to figure out what the poetic link was for 'Samson?').  Rather too many of the 'who was the last British born left winger to captain a non-British European Cup runners-up side' variety.  This was reflected in the rather low scores for this last league match of the season.

 

The highlight of the evening was Father M's excitement at guessing the American Universities theme round.  Unfortunately his enthusiasm rather ran away with him and it was only with the greatest difficulty and following a few judicious shots of Jamesons that we finally managed to persuade him that there was no American University called 'Up Yer Bum' or 'Red Hot Fceking Poker'  when it came for the time to answer the question about Edward II's death.

 

Apart from that, it was a most convivial evening in the company of some of our most convivial opponents!

 

Yours pokingly

 

Chara Damian"

Question of the Week

The vote this week (from the Girls/Pigs match) goes to Round 4 Question 3:

Which world leader was allegedly asked by J F Kennedy, "Don't you find you get a headache if you don't have sex every couple of hours?"?

Click here to see the answers to this and the rest of the week's questions and answers.