Prediction of the Week returns.. as does the Jurowischenßongkontest - POTW for WQ#202

Alreet - before last night's points and anything else, POTW for next week's WQ#202. It's THAT time of the year again. Grangprieöhrovisjongdellaschangßongöhropejenn. SillySingaSongSeason. ESC 2016.

You have until Saturday 8pm to get 4 points for next week's quiz by predicting

• winner and winning points +/-20
• last place
• Germany's place

Get your crystal balls and tea leaves out and send me a mail or leave your prediction in the fb group,

Good luck, see you on 19th May for lots of new pick&mix rounds (one of which will be Eurovision :)

And the points for the Oscars go to.... POTW WQ#198

Right, Queops. It's the Friday before the Thursday and about time we had a POTW. Initially I wanted to let you guess the next FIFA president (or Germany's representative in Stockholm) but what the heck?
Oscar's it is, as announced last week. So whip out your crystal balls and predict the winners in the following categories.

• ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
• DIRECTING
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
• MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

..and for a bonus point - how many Oscars will 'The Revenant' get (out of the 12 nominations)? (‪#‎giveortakenothing‬)
Deadline is Sunday 10pm.
GO! 

And then have a wonderful weekend, I will see (some of) you next Thursday.

POTW for WQ#197 - Grammys

Last week's points and CL table can wait, Prediction of the Week - not.

So - those of you who have a table at WQ#197 on Thursday, and are not members of our little fb group, or have received a mail - HEADS UP!

For four points,  predict the winners in the following categories at this year's Grammys

• Best Song of the Year
• Best New Artist
• Best Rock Performance of the Year
• Best Spoken Word Album of the Year

Deadline is Monday noon - have at it!!

Handball!!!!!! - POTW WQ#195

Soooooo... prediction of the week for the upcoming WQ#195. At long last.
NO snooker - I don't want to jinx The Rocket - but Handball, European Championships ;)

Pick 3 of the following 6 games and predict the result (NOT the score ;) )

• 18 January 6.15pm Slowenia - Spain
• 18 January 8.30pm Germany - Sweden
• 19 January 8.30pm Frankreich - Polen
• 19 January 8.30pm Kroatien - Island
• 20 January 5.15pm Germany - Slowenia
• 20 January 8pm Denmark - Hungary

Send me your predictions by mail or comment here/fb group. Deadlines are the respective KO times :))

2016 Crystal Ball Games - POTW for WQ#194

Moin, moin.. and Happy New Year again.

Since the 2016 New Year's Quiz is only 5 days away, here is the first Prediction of the Week for 2016. F*** football, this one's winter sport :D

Ski Jumping, Four Hills Tournament / Vierschanzentournee

for 5 points, predict:

• the winner of the 4th event in Bischofshofen / Sieger im Dreikönigsspringen in Bischofshofen 
• best distance (+/- 2m) / beste Weite in Bischofshofen (+/-2m)
• gold, silver and bronze medalists in the overall Four Hills Tournament / Erst-, Zweit- und Drittplazierten am Ende der Vierschanzentournee

Send me your predictions (or questions pertaining to POTW) by mail to quiz_miz@hotmail.com. 

Deadline/Einsendeschluß - Wednesday 6 January 8am

GO!!!

Prediction of the Week for WQ#192

Just in time for the football weekend - prediction of the week. If you want to start WQ#192 with 4 points, pick 4 (!!) of the 8 games and predict the result (win/draw). Deadline / Einsendeschluß - KO times /Anstoßzeiten. You can send me a mail or leave a comment here or in the fb group.

• Cottbus - Rot-Weiß Erfurt Saturday 2pm
• Werder Bremen - HSV Saturday 3.30pm
• The New Saints - Airbus UK (Welsh PL) Saturday 6.15pm
• Leicester - ManU Saturday 6.30pm
• Tottenham - Chelsea Sunday 1pm
• St. Pauli - Nürnberg Sunday 1.30pm
• West Ham - West Brom Sunday 3pm
• Leverkusen - Schalke Sunday 5.30pm

Have at it, and good luck!!

Prediction of the Week - WQ#191

Since the next Wilde Quiz is almost upon us - here is the new Prediction of the Week. 4 points are up for grabs, the game is FOOTBALL ('soccer' to some of you)..
The first 2 points:
David Beckham "Unicef for Children" match, 

GB/Ireland XI vs Rest of the World XI (Sunday 4pm)
Who will win (and don't say 'the children')/how many goals will be scored? GB/IRe 3 RotW 1 (Graces, BallZ & Fietschs 1 pt each)

For 2 more points - pick 2 of the following internationals on Monday/Tuesday (EURO qualifiers/meaningless friendlies) and predict the results (win/draw)

• Ireland - Bosnia-Herzegovina Mon 8.45pm IRE 2 - BOS 0
• Denmark - Sweden Tue 8.45pm
• Russia - Croatia Tue 5pm
• Belgium - Spain Tue 8.45pm instead I offer you Austria - Switzerland Tue 8.45pm
• German - Holland Tue 8.45pm
• England - France Tue 9pm

Deadlines are the respective KO times. Predictions by mail or comment here/fb group.

And now goeth and findeth your crystal ballZ... or tea leaves.

Small balls, massive points - Prediction of the Week WQ#189

Almost forgot - not only is Ye Wilde Quiz back - POTW is also making a return.

If you are attending WQ#189 on Thursday 5 November, and want to start with 4 points, pick 3 of the following 6 Champions League / Europa League games and predict the result (win/draw)
Also, for 1 bonus point - how many goals will be scored in all those 8 games together? ‪#‎plusminusgarnichts‬

1. PSV 2 - Wolfsburg 0
2. Gladbach 1 - Juve 1
3. Bayern - Arsenal Wednesday 8.45pm
4. Roma - Leverkusen Wednesday 8.45pm
5. Chelsea - Kiev Wednesday 8.45pm
6. Dortmund - Qäbälä Thursday 7pm
7. Sparta - Schalke Thursday 9pm
8. Augsburg - Alkmaar Thursday 9pm

Send your predictions by mail or leave a comment here or in the fb group. Deadline (as usual) are the respective KO times ;)

Good luck. See you Thursday!

Sports, PIX&MIX - POTW for Q3#014

Aaaannd here it is, your Prediction of the Week for Q3#014 on Monday 21 September.

If you want to start with 4 points on Monday, pick 4 of the following fixtures and predict the winner (or, in case of football, potential draw)
Deadlines are the respective KO times (note: 2 of the snooker QFs start FRIDAY morning at 8.30am). Send me your predictions by mail or leave comments here, or in the fb group.

HAVE FUN. BE LUCKY. BE RIGHT.

Football, mixed

• Sat 19/09, 1.45pm Chelsea - Arsenal
• Sat 19/09, 3.30pm HSV - Eintracht Frankfurt
• Sat 19/09, 3.30pm Wolfsburg - Hertha
• Sun 20/09, 3.30pm Stuttgart - Schalke

Rugby Union World Cup, Group stage

• Sat 19/09, 1pm Tonga - Georgia
• Sat 19/09, 3.30pm Ireland - Canada
• Sun 20/09, 1pm Samoa - USA
• Sun 20/09, 5.45pm New Zealand - Argentina

Snooker Shanghai Masters, Quarter Finals

• Fri 18/09, 8.30am  Bingham - Gould
• Fri 18/09, 8.30am  Trump - Williams
• Fri 18/09, 1.30pm  Ding - Wilson
• Fri 18/09, 1.30pm  Davis - Allen

POTW for Q3#011

QUEOPS! Prediction of the Week is here. If you want to start the quiz on Monday with 5!!!! points, predict the following:

Option 1
predict the results (win/draw) of the following games

• Hertha - Werder Bremen (Fri 8.30pm)
• ManU - Newcastle (Sat 1.45pm)
• Leicester - Spurs (Sat 4pm)
• 1860 Munich - Union Berlin (Sun 1.30pm)

AND bonus point for getting 1 goal scorer in the ManU-Toon game (either side.. because WE WILL SCORE ;) )

Option 2
Predict the top 3 drivers in Sunday's F1 Belgian GP (Sun 2pm)
(1 point for correct name in correct place, half point for correct name)
2 bonus points if you get all 3 in the correct order

Send your predictions by mail to quiz_miz@hotmail.com, or leave a comment here or in the fb group. Deadlines, as usual, are the respective KO times.

GO!

Prediction of the Week Q3#004

If you want to start with 3 points next Monday, predict the following

Women's Football World Cup

• 2 finalists
• 1 winner
• 1 top goal scorer.

You still have until tonight (Tuesday) midnight.

Summertime, and the quizzing's not easy... Also, Prediction of the Week for WQ#185

The latest re. remainder of WQCLS14 and short-term plans. PLEASE DO READ CAREFULLY.

We're gonna have WQ#185 on Thursday 7 May. At the mo only CL teams are in the book (as far as I know), if you want to join them DO SEND ME A MAIL. If you phone there's no guarantee that I'll find your reservation.

WQ#186 depends entirely on the number of interested teams since Thursday 14 May is Himmelfahrt (Ascesion Thursday) and thus a holiday. I need your yay or nay by Sunday 10 May. By mail, or in the fb group, or tell me after WQ#185. If I don't get enough teams to warrant the work and hassle, we'll skip next week. In that case WQ#186 would be Thursday 21 May (the Thursday before Pfingsten).
At the moment I'm contemplating cutting the Champions League by a week or two and ending it on 28 May since I don't know yet what June brings. I have matters to take care of that demand my full attention, and preparing/running quizzes is a very time-consuming hobby at the moment.



















And not to waste space - Prediction of the Week for this week's WQ#185. Bit short notice but the teams that play POTW have read it on FB.
Since I missed the chance to ask for royal baby names or snooker champions, here's back to Ye Olde ChampionsLeague bet.
Predict the results (not scores!!) for the CL semi finals. Also, name 2 goal scorers (can be Tue and/or Wed game). 
Deadlines are the respective KO times - in case you miss tonight's Juve-Real you can still send your prediction for Barca beating Bayern.

Nose shapers, noise makers & Na endlich, DAQ******!!! - WQ#181

For now only the Sparversion, no time to waste, what with summer in the city 'n all.
Not gonna comment on disciplinary issues... some people just don't get the whole quiz idea...  won't happen again ;)

As for 'real' queops - good scores last night, and congrats DAQ****** - at long last that elusive victory :)
(PS - sometimes you can actually believe me when I recommend a joker round ;) )

1. DAQ****** 82
2. Cannonballs* 81,5
3. Fietscherings**** 79
4. Amazing Graces* 77
5. Let's Get Quizzical 76,5
6. Hurricanes 74
7. Arsch 24.de 63,5
8. Berlin am Meer 57,5
9. Pünktchen +/- Arno 54,5
10. 4-2-Won 53
11. Tick, Trick, Track & Truck 51
12. Andi II 31
13. Die Hesse Komme 2.0 20

CLS14 is shaping up nicely, some teams will get their 6th result next week and then the real race starts.

4-2-Won have Yogi (Sunday 9pm) and Prediction of the Week is Boat Race Oxford - Cambridge tomorrow. Deadline Saturday 9am.

Have a good one y'all, enjoy the early summer, see you next week for CLS14 Bergfest-Quiz WQ#182. Hopefully somewhat more enjoyable ;)

Last but not least - reservations by email prettyplease UNLESS it's Thursday after 12pm - in that case you'd have to phone Oscar's to see if there are any tables left. 

Reservierungen bitte per email an quiz_miz@hotmail.com - AUSSER Donnerstag nach 12 Uhr - dann müßt ihr im Oscar Wilde anrufen um zu fragen ob's noch Plätze gibt.

Leftovers - Reservations Rule! Reservation Rules. Prediction of the Week WQ#180

Last but not least - BOOK.

WQ#180 aka Easter Eggstravaganza is reservation only. Reservations must be in by Sunday night. I close the book (and quiz) early because I need time to shop/plan/prepare and have to know for how many people/teams. If you're not in the book on Monday morning, you're not in the quiz on Thursday evening.

And just as a reminder - NEW RULES for reservations/cancellations. If you want to book (or cancel) a table for the quiz, please use the facebook group or send a mail to quiz_miz@hotmail.com - DO NOT phone Oscar's, that only leads to confusion and pissed-offedness (yesthatisaword :D) on my part.

Prediction of the Week WQ#180
If you want to start the Easter Eggstravaganza with 4!!! points - predict me the winners of the following EURO 2016 qualifiers:

• Kazakhstan - Iceland (Sat 4pm)
• Israel- Wales (Sat 6pm)
• Netherlands - Turkey (Sat 8.45pm) 
• Portugal - Serbia (Sun 7.45pm)

Send me your predictions by mail, or leave a comment here or in the fb group.

Deadline: KO times of the respective games.

Prediction of the Week WQ#179

If you have a table for WQ#179, and want to start the quiz with 3 points, do predict the winners of the three Rugby 6 Nations games

• Italy - Wales
• Scotland - Ireland
• England - France

This time your DEADLINE is Saturday 1.30pm - FOR ALL 3 GAMES... send your predictions by mail/pm/txt/comment in fb group or here.

Prediction of the Week - WQ#178

If you want to start with 3 points on Thursday, predict the winners of the following games


Rugby 6 Nations
Wales - Ireland (Sat 15:30)
England - Scotland (Sat 18:00)
Italy - France (Sun 16:00)
Send me a mail with your predictions or leave a comment here or on fb. Deadline - KO times of the respective games.

IF you read this too late in time for WAL-IRE or even ENG-SCO, optionally choose from

EPL Chelsea - Southampton (Sun 14:30) and/or
Scottish League Cup Final Dundee Utd. - Celtic (Sun 16:00)

BUT - you can only pick 3 games :D

GO!

recap/ pts Sat 9pm
P&A: Irland, England, Celtic (2/3)
CBallz: Ireland, Scotland, France (1/3)
Graces: Wales, England, Italy (2/3)
DAQ: England, France, Celtic (3/3)
LGQ: Ireland, England, France (2/3)

Prediction of the Week for WQ#175 - ... and the Oscar goes to...

Just in time - Prediction of the Week for WQ#175 on 26 February. You can start with 3 points if you predict the following. Correctly... ;)

Oscar for:

• best actor (lead)
• best animated feature film
• best song

Send me your thoughts by mail, or comment here or in the fb group.

Deadline is Sunday midnight.

GO!!!

UPDATE: ... the Oscars went to...
Eddie Redmayne / Big Hero 6 / Glory

DAQ****** - nil points
P&A, Fietscherings***, BallZ* - 1 point
Graces*, LGQ - 2 points

Prediction of the Week - WQ#172

We haven't had one for a while (and yesterday's Toon game would have provided a nice one :) but as pointed out to me so astutely - it's Super Bowl Sunday and Prediction of the Week time.

So - Super Bowl XLIX - New England Patriots - Seattle Seahawks, Sunday 1 February
For 2 points, predict the following

• Which team will win the Super Bowl? Welches Team wird den Super Bowl gewinnen?
• By how many points (+/-5)? Mit wie vielen Punkten Abstand (+/-5)?

Deadline / Einsendeschluß: Sunday 12a.m. /Sonntag 24 Uhr.

PotW #WQ152 - if at first you don't succeed...

Right Queepz - since Newcastle are predictably unpredictable, and DAQ**** were the only ones to bother anyway, and everone (but Alan Parsnip) deserves a second chance - here's another PotW for WQ#152.
predict the results (win/draw/lose) for these four friendlies:

Czech Republic - USA!USA!USA!
Germany - Argentina
Ireland - Oman
England - Norway

Deadline is Wednesday 8.15pm

Also - I take suggestions for the music round. NO BOY- or GIRLBANDS. NO German Schlagers. NO Techno. NO Death or other Metal.  :D

Deadline for that one - Tuesday 8pm.

Crystal Ball Games - POTW #151

Last things first, for those who missed last night's fun, or didn't pay attention, or are not on f***book but would like to turn up/return next Thursday.

Prediction of the Week for WQ#151, 2 points up for grabs.

Aston Villa - Newcastle, Saturday 23 August.
1. How many goals total will be scored in the match?
2. Which team will score first?

Kick-off (and thus your deadline) is tomorrow (Saturday 23rd), 1.45pm.