Quiz Liverpool

Many congratulations to the Liverpool 2a team of Frank McHugh (Tramway), Joan Peacock (St Francis), Rob Cruise and John Coventry (Bookworms) and Paul Savage (CTK Cavaliers) who won the President’s Shield in a tense final set of matches.  They finished ahead of Wirral by one bonus point (gained in their defeat to Warrington in January!).  Here is the final table and full results are here.

Well done too, to the Liverpool 2b team of Clive Leech (Exiles), Catherine Rouse (Duncan's Doughnuts), Jan Forshaw (Monstrous Regiment),  Paul O'Callaghan (Old Bangers) and Peter Martin (St Francis), who were in contention and finished in a very comfortable third place.  Thanks very much to everyone from both teams who have taken part,.  The Shield will be presented to Liverpool 2a at the MQL Finals and Presentation Evening being held in Warrington this year on Wed 15 May.

Many congratulations to our team of Angela Doyle (Bishop Eton), Chris Quinn (Cricketers), Rod Moore (Kluggers), Fay Howard and Danny Grimes (Aigburth Swans) and Brian Thompson (Aigburth People) who have won the 2023-24 President's Trophy.  This is Liverpool's first win since 2018 and brings an end to Ormskirk's five year winning run.  The team won six of their eight matches against representative sides from the other four MQL areas.  Final League table is shown below and all results can be viewed here.

The heats of the Liverpool Mimir, the Individual competition, took place on Wednesday 21 Feb at Aigburth Peoples Hall.  13 players took part and the full results can be seen here.  Rob Cruise (Bookworms), Mark Kerr (C), Chris Quinn (Cricketers) and Brian Thompson (Aigburth People) will contest the Final at the Presentation Night in June.  These four plus Angela Doyle (Bishop Eton), Rod Moore (Kluggers) and Graham Barker (Cricketers) qualify for the MQL Heats next month.

Liverpool entered two teams in this annual MQL tournament.  The A team of Angela Doyle, Chris Quinn, Morgan Bush, James MacGregor and Nathan Pace, qualified for the Cup competition and finished tenth on the day.  The B team of Gill Willett, Joan Peacock, John Coventry and Rob Cruise qualified for the Bowl.

Some team photos from the 2024 buzzer tournament have been placed in the gallery on the MQL website at Gallery - Merseyside Quiz Leagues

Just click on the Buzzers 2024 folder to browse through them.

The final is now available to watch.  Misfits took on Yorkshire at the end of a fine day's quizzing.

Players may recall that Jeff Dunn sadly passed away in the Autumn of last year.  Jeff was a very long standing member of the Leagues. 

This obituary appeared in The Guardian on Thursday 01 February. (pres ctrl and left click on the word obituary to follow the link, it will open in a new tab)

It is with great sadness that we have to inform everyone of the sudden death Keith Spencer of Standard Bearers quiz team. Keith played the game on Monday and was alright on Tuesday, but went to bed on Wednesday night and died in his sleep.

We will post funeral arrangements when they are available.

It is my sad duty to advise you of the death of Jeff Dunn of Judges quiz team.

Judges have been playing in the Liverpool Quiz League since 1983 (forty years!) without a name change. Jeff joined in their second season meaning he played for at least 38 years.

He has become well known to neighbouring quiz teams through playing on Thursday nights at St Austin’s friendly quizzes and latterly online. He has been a regular for Brian Thompson and Angela Doyle’s Wednesday night team in the OQL (Online Quiz League)

Last year Jeff was awarded the Citizen of Honour award by Liverpool City Council for the work that he did with young people and political awareness. The ceremony at the Town Hall was moving for the number of young people who cited him as an influence in their successful careers.

He will be sadly missed, may he rest in peace.

The 2023 Pairs Competition was Held at Prescot Cables FC on Wednesday 13th September 2023.

The three pairs in the final were Jim Eccleson (Wi) & Jack Gardner (S&F), Neil Wright (Wi) and Ben Vincent (Wa) and Sam Roberts (Wi) & Danny Grimes (LI)

The winners were Neil and Ben - Neil retaining the title, having won last year as well.

The Plate final was contested by Cliff Houghton (Wa) & David Hodgson(Or), Sue Perks (Or) & Chris Quinn (Li) and Mark Kerr (Li) and Bill Gerard (Or), with Mark and Bill winning the contest.

You can watch the final below:

The fixtures for the upcoming season have been posted on the Fixtures page:

Matches begin on 4th September and continue until 18th March 2024. With 26 teams we have formed the league into two divisions.

Please note the change of venues for Kluggers and JC and the Jets.  Details are in the handbook and on the team pages.