Quiz Liverpool

+ The Cricketers won after a tie break and coin toss

* Player scored a full house

We now have the handicaps confirmed for our knockout competition.

Here is the draw updated with the handicaps inserted.

The home teams should by now have received their questions for round one, Monday 3rd March 2025, if you haven’t please let me know as a matter of urgency and I will get a spare set to you

We can report that the change of night for our Mimir Competition to a Monday was a great success.

33 Members from 12 teams came to Aigburth Peoples Hall last night,24 members played and took part in six heats of four players.

The highest two scorers from each heat going through to the second part which consisted of three heats of four players.

James MacGregor and Joe Campbell played a tie breaker for position 4 in the final, Joe won 3-2

The winners of each heat, plus the highest runner up go forward to the Liverpool Mimir Final at our Presentation Night on 2ndJune 2025.

They areAngela Doyle, Rod Moore, Brian Thompson and Joe Campbell

The top seven go through to the MQL heats, 19thMarch 2025 at New Brighton Cricket Club

They are Angela Doyle, Rod Moore, Brian Thompson, Joe Campbell, James MacGregor, Graham Barker and Danny Grimes

Congratulations to Angela Doyle and Brian Thompson joint highest scorers on the night with 20 points each.

Many thanks to everyone for taking part, asking the questions, scoring and bonus recording.

The MQL Buzzer Quiz tournament took place on Saturday 15th Feb 2025 at Hoylake Community Centre.  After an excellent day's quizzing, the final was contested by The Jenever Convention and Organised Quite Late.

You can watch the final by clicking on the linke below:

As set out in our pre-season email and pages 17 and 30 of our handbooks, we are having an end of season handicap knock out competition.

We start with all 24 teams.

Handicaps are based on points scored in the season, weighting given for Division Two teams. These will be calculated when we have all the results in for the season.

 The format will be as follows and is shown in the draw below

 Week One 3^rd March 2025

Start with all 24 teams in the competition.

Draw 24 teams for straight knockout.

 Week Two 10^th March 2025

Cup                                                                                      Plate

Start with 12 winners from week 1                         Start with 12 losers from week 1

Draw for straight knockout, six games                 Draw for straight knockout, six games

 Week Three 17^th March 2025

Cup                                                                                      Plate

Start with 6 winners from week 2                            Start with 6 winners from week 2

Draw for straight knockout three games              Draw for straight knockout three games

 Week Four 24^th March 2025, all games played at Aigburth Peoples Hall Draw will take place on the night

Cup                                                                                      Plate

Start with 3 winners from week 3                            Start with 3 winners from week 3

Round robin, AvB, C plays loser of AvB,             Round robin, AvB, C plays loser of AvB,

C plays winner of AvB                                                 C plays winner of AvB

Winner is highest placed team                              Winner is highest placed team

OQL are offering a full day of quiz fun for just £1 per person. All players play the 240 question individual written quiz, a fun team quiz (with teams organised on the day) and an exciting buzzer quiz.
This forms part of OQL’s Live VIII events and is a fantastic opportunity to give these events a try for the bargain rate of just £1 per person.

These events are regularly supported by MQL players.  The local venue is the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port, Wirral. The event will run on 25th January from 11am to 5pm and you can find out more details and register for the event at https://quizcentral.net/oqllive/

If you’ve any questions about this please contact OQL at Info@onlinequizleague.com

Dear All,

It is my sad duty to write and advise you of the passing of Dave Cotson, he was a founder member of CTK Wanderers, they started playing in the early 1980’s and he was their first team Secretary.

He also played for many years in the President’s Shield and was part of the Liverpool 2 team that won the Shield 8 times in 11 years. Dave and Brian Thompson organised the annual CTK charity quizzes from 2004 to 2020.

In later years increasing ill health forced him to stop playing, but he carried on as question master until he was unable to play.

He will be greatly missed by his family, his friends from CTK Wanderers and throughout the League.

Paul Davitt

You can watch the final of this year's MQL Pairs competition at the link below

The fourth Diamond Jubilee Pairs competition will be held on Wednesday 25th September starting at 8 pm at Prescot Cables FC club, courtesy of the Ormskirk QL.  The address is Eaton Street, Prescot, L34 6HB.

Format

All entrants will be placed into either a higher or lower pool and on the night a draw will be made to create pairs made from a player from each pool.  The First Round is a 40/50-question written quiz that will find the top 6 pairs.  In the Semi-finals these six pairs will be asked questions in turn in a 15 to 1 type format.  A pair has three lives and loses a life each time they answer incorrectly or fail to answer.  There are 10 seconds to answer and there are no bonuses.  The questioning continues until only three teams remain.  Those three teams then contest the Final played in the same way until a winning pair is found.  If there are sufficient numbers then the Pairs finishing seventh, eighth and ninth in the First Round will contest a Plate Final on the same lines as the Final.

Entry

If you would like to take part, then please send an email entitled Merseyside Pairs to either me (briathom59@gmail.com) and perhaps copy it to your League Secretary.  Entries will be confirmed on the Sunday before the competition.  The competition is open to MQL players and there is no charge for entering.

Reports on previous competitions can be seen on the webpage and a recording of the 2023 Final can be viewed here.

I hope that you will be able to join us and look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards

Brian Thompson

MQL General Secretary

Merseyside Quiz League (MQL) are delighted to announce that the MQL Buzzer quiz for 2025 will take place on Saturday 15th February at Hoylake Parade (the same venue the previous two events have been held).

Full details will be announced closer to the time but it is anticipated that teams will need to arrive for 10am and will be finishing around 7pm with a 90 minute break for lunch.

Entry will once again open to MQL teams first, this will happen on Monday 26th August at 7pm. For all other teams who’ve previously participated, registration will open on Monday 2nd September at 2pm. Should we still have spaces remaining after 9th September we will offer them out to anyone else.

Due to increased costs at our end, the entry fee will now be £100 per team with a 25% discount for any team whose squad includes 3 or more players who regularly play in MQL. All teams will play a guaranteed 8 matches and most will play 9.

To register please go to https://merseysidequizleagues.org.uk/buzzer-quiz.aspx and fill in your team details and we’ll be in touch with all teams as soon as registration has closed. Please do not register prior to the above dates or your entry will not be received.

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to ask.