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Macclesfield Quiz League |
| Fixtures and Results |
| 2010s |
| 2018–19: Plate |
| Quarter–Finals: 22 Jan 2019 |
| Semi–Finals: 19 Feb 2019 |
| Final: date TBA |
Question Setters: Ox–fford, Waters Green Rams. These two teams were asked to provide three question masters each, to cover the Cup and the Plate; the Cock Inn and the Sutton Mutton were asked to provide one question master each.
| Brewers Arms | 83 | 94 | Harrington 'B' |
| Waters Green Lemmings | 98 | 88 | Park Taverners |
| Park Timers | 86 | 110 | Harrington Academicals |
| Chester Road Tavern | 78 | 118 | Robin Hood |
Question Setters: Park Timers, Rushton Diamonds. These two teams were asked to provide two question masters each, to cover the Cup and the Plate.
| Harrington Academicals | 111 | 93 | Robin Hood |
| Waters Green Lemmings | 114 | 93 | Harrington 'B' |
The questions were compiled by the Robin Hood and the Harrington 'B', from those supplied by all non–participating teams.
| Harrington Academicals | 95 | 73 | Waters Green Lemmings |
The first two rounds were closely contested, and after 40 questions the score was 29–28 to the Academicals. From the Lemmings' point of view the damage was done in Rounds 3 and 4, both of which the Harrington won by some margin. The Lemmings pulled seven points back in Round 5, but were unable to narrow the gap any further in the final round; the result was a convincing victory for the Harrington Academicals.
Congratulations to the Harrington Academicals on their fourth victory in this competition, following their
hat–trick of wins from 2010 to 2012.
An entertaining set of questions had been collated by the Robin Hood and the Harrington 'B'. They were read by Paul Morrissey, with Mark Watson scoring.
It's perhaps worth noting that from the start of Round 3 the Lemmings were asked no fewer than seven consecutive Sport questions (odd numbers, 41 to 53). In principle this is not necessarily a bad thing, but seven in a row is perhaps a little excessive. The Lemmings freely admit that sport is not their best subject; they did manage to get two of the seven right, but the Academicals picked up fourteen points over the same run of questions (five of their own six questions answered correctly, plus four passed over). The question that the Accies got wrong was the only one in this sequence that wasn't about sport: the one about the more common name for the plant Lunaria (answer: honesty).
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