Quiz Liverpool

A donation of £100 was made from the Summer Quiz League coffers to Mary's Meals, a charity offering nutritious food to African schoolchildren.  Further details can be found on the Summer League website here:

In the coming weeks, several players from the MQL will be appearing on TV.

On 20th July Liverpool University beat St Peter's, Oxford on University Challenge.  The Liverpool team includes Jack Bennett, who played several matches for Rainhill Victoria last season, and reached the last 6 in the Liverpool pairs competition.

In coming weeks Neil Macaskill , David Knapp, David Smith (all Warrington) and Jon Stitcher (Wirral) will be appearing on Only Connect on BBC2.  Neil will be appearing as a member of the Spaghetti Westerners on 27th July, David Smith as a member of The Railwaymen on 3rd Augusts, David Knapp as a member of The Bookworms team on 17th August, and Jon as a member of the Athenians team on 24th August.

John Haynes of Irby Nomads (Wirral) appeared on Channel 4's '15 to 1' on Tuesday 4th August.

If you know of any other people appearing on the TV, please let me know.

Mersey Summer Quiz League starts next Monday 8th June, 8.00 pm at Aigburth People's Hall. You are most welcome to come along and join in.

You can find the Summer League website here:

The 2015 Liverpool quiz League Pairs competition was held on Monday 1st June 2015 at Aigburth People's Hall.  You can watch it in the video below.

At a very well attended pairs competition and presentation evening, 27 randomly drawn pairs took part in the annual pairs competition.  As is usual, the questions were set by last year's winners, John Watson of Bishop Eaton and Chris Quinn of Rainhill Victoria.

After a close competition, Rod Moore (Kluggers) and Joe Raven (Earles) finished in third position, with Clive Leach (Exiles) and James McGregor (Palmy Army) in second place.  The winners were Mark Kerr (Rainhill Victoria) and Peter Dixon (Earles)

The questions for both the qualifying competition and the finals can be found on the Quizzes page and some photos are now on the Gallery page.

An illustrated history of the Merseyside Quiz League can be found here. It makes fascinating reading.

History of the MQL

After a fine tournament, the last three round of which were played tonight at Aigburth People's Hall, Exiles of the Liverpool League beat Barbarians of the Wirral League in the final.

Barbarians reached the final by beating Kluggers 58-55 while playing short handed, one of their players travelling to the venue directly from Liverpool Airport after a flight from Spain and not quite making it on time!  In the semi final they beat Aigburth Swans 63-36, by this time having a full team.

Exiles progressed by beating Gladly Stoned 58-54, then beating Earles 61-25.

In the final, Exiles, the team consisting of John Curphey, Bryan Leach, Tony Coady and Clive Leach triumphed with a score of 57 to Barbarian's 48.  Barbarians' team consisted of Joe Davies, John Lively, Harry Merry and Len Davies.

Special mentions also go to Joe Raven of Earles, and Danny Grimes of Aigburth Swans who scored full houses in the quarter finals.

Many of last season's quizzes have been added to the website. The remaining quizzes will be added after they have been put in the standard MQL format. 

The quizzes can be found by either clicking on the Quizzes menu above, or by clicking here:

The MQL Finals Night was held at Aigburth People's Hall in Liverpool on Wednesday 14th May 2015.  The results of the competitions were as follows:

MQL Plate

Zetland of Southport and Formby League beat Bishop Eton of the Liverpool League 46-41 after a close fought match

Zetland (S&F)	Bishop Eton

MQL Challenge Cup

Rainhill Victoria of the Liverpool League beat Oxton Conservatives of the Wirral League 51-38.

Rainhill Victoria	Oxton Conservatives

MIMIR Final

In a hard fought contest, Pat Gibson of the Ormskirk League beat Ray Oakes, also of the Ormskirk League and Rod Moore and Brian Thompson of the Liverpool League.  The final scores were Pat Gibson 17, Ray Oakes 14, Rod Moore 11 and Brian Thompson 11.

Brian Thompson & Pat Gibson	Rod Moore & Ray Oakes

Billy Butler is looking for contestants for the Gamesroom which is played Monday-Friday 3.40pm during his show on Radio Merseyside.

If you would be up for playing you can email claire.minter@bbc.co.uk or contact them during the programme (2-4pm) on 0151 709 9333.