Quiz Liverpool

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.

The annual Liverpool Quiz League Presentation Night was held at APH on Monday 5th June.  The Pairs competition and the MIMIR finals were held during the evening with Brian Thompson and Frank McHugh becoming Pairs champions and Mark Kerr becoming the 2023 MIMIR champion.

St Francis of Asissi - Div 2 Runners-up	CTK Wanderers - Div 2 Champions	Kluggers - Div 1 Runners-up
Cricketers - Div 1 Champions	CTK Wanderers - Handicap League Winners	Exiles - Feeney Cup Runners-up
Cricketers - Feeny Cup Winners	Pairs Winners - Frank McHugh & Brian Thompson	MIMIR Finalists - Rod Moore, Angela Doyle, Mark Kerr, Brian Thompson
Liverpool Quiz League Council - France Mason, Brian Thompson), Keith Clare, Paul Davitt, Angela Doyle, James MacGregor, Danny Grimes

Online Quiz League are running their second individual championships on Saturday 24th June.  Many players have already signed up to play at venues up and down the country.  The day involves a written individual quiz featuring 240 questions across a whole manner of subjects and then fun team quizzes in the afternoon.

The inaugural event was held in March when over 300 took part and was very successful.  This time our local venue is the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port. There are spaces left available there and it would be great to see those spaces filled with MQL players.  Registration closes on Sunday 11 June.

For more details and to register please go to  https://quizcentral.net/qc/Individual_Championships_-_Register

Liverpool Quiz League Presentation Evening 2023

Annual Pairs Competition

Mimir Final

Presentation of Awards

Monday 5^th June 2023

8pm Aigburth People’s Hall, Aigburth Vale, Liverpool, L17 0DG

Our evening will begin with the draw for the Pairs Competition. The questions are set by the winners of the last competition. Pairs are drawn from the hat for those wishing to enter the competition.

The first part of the Pairs competition is 40 questions, each pair of contestants writes their answers on the answer sheet. Following the first part the sheets are marked with the top six pairs going through to a 15 to 1 style knock out and then the top three carry on until the winners remain.

Mimir Final.

Presentation.

We hope that all Liverpool teams and Wirral Teams who took part in the Riley Cup, or any individual members of a team will join us to celebrate our 2023 season.