Quiz Liverpool

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.

Saturday, June 20th 2015 at 11:00am at the Malleable Club, 345 Norton Road, Stockton-on-Tees, TS20 2PH

A full day of quizzing with individual, buzzer and team quizzes.

In the morning there will be an individual written quiz, which will feature a number of different genres with prizes available for the overall winners and genre winners.

In the afternoon Dave Bill is going to run an interactive buzzer quiz, which are always lots of fun.

This will be followed by a team quiz. Teams will be based on the results of the individual quiz results so everyone will have a chance of winning and you'll have the chance to meet new quiz friends. 

The entrance fee for the full day of quizzing will be just £5, and all the money left over after hopefully minimal costs will be used as prize money for the various quizzes.

To sign up, please either use the appropriate button on this group https://www.facebook.com/events/376918395826514/ or you can e-mail quizinthenorth3@yahoo.co.uk

The Riley Cup resumes on Monday 11th May. The quarter finals, semis and final are on the following Monday, 18th May at Aigburth People's Hall.

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For the foreseeable future, Kluggers will be playing their home games at Pi on Rose Lane.  Full details can be found on Klugger's team page.