Wirral Quiz League

Online Quiz League are running their inaugural individual championships on Saturday 25th March.  Around 300 players have already signed up to play at venues up and down the country.  The day involves a written individual quiz featuring 200 questions across a whole manner of subjects and then two fun team quizzes in the afternoon.

This is looking like being the biggest event of its kind ever in the UK and one of the venues is the Cross Keys, a pub in Liverpool city centre.  There are currently around 15 spaces left available there and it would be great to see those spaces filled with MQL players.

For more details and to register please go to  https://quizcentral.net/qc/Individual_Championships

As the season is finishing earlier than usual, a short handicap cup competition, for the Absent Friends trophy, has been arranged. This will be a knock-out tournament, with the first round on Monday 6th March, the second on 13th March and semi-finals and the final on 22nd March. The semis and final will be played at the Lever Club. Matches must be played on Mondays, with the usual start time of 8.45 p.m. unless teams wish to mutually agree a different time.

With two late entries, sixteen teams are taking part and the first round draw is below. Home teams are shown first and the numbers following the team names are the handicaps.

Magpies 25 v Taxes 18

Heinz the Male Goat 3 v Aardvarks 16

Shipwrecked 18 v Roundheads 17

Oxton Cons 7 v Wallaseyans 12

Lever Club 29  v Nelsons 14

Joeys Nomads 10 v Extras 8 (will be played at Extras venue)

Gladly Stoned 0 v Plasterers 13

Thingwall 12 v Soapsuds 5 (will be played at Soapsuds venue)

This competition is being run by Kris Jones of Aardvarks who has sent full details of the rules to all nominated team captains. Results need to be notified to him as soon as the match is finished.

Congratulations to Neil Wright of Soapsuds who scored his second full house of the season in a match against Thingwall.

The Wirral heat of the Mimir Individual Competition will take place once again at New Brighton Cricket Club this year

The date is Wednesday 15th February 2023 commencing 8pm and the competition is open to all Wirral Quiz League players

Wirral are normally allowed 7 qualifiers to the further stages of this competition which this year will also take place at New Brighton Cricket Club on Wednesday 22nd March.This event will involve other qualifiers from the other areas of the Merseyside Quiz League

To comply with Martin’s wishes, his funeral was private.

His family has arranged a get together on Friday 27th January at New Brighton Cricket Club where friends and family can meet to talk about Martin and their memories of him.

The room has been booked from 1.30 p.m. until 5 p.m. and quizzers, past and present, who knew Martin and would like to attend can drop in at any time and stay for however long suits them.

New Brighton Cricket Club is in Wallasey, postcode CH45 5DE, for anyone who hasn’t previously attended.

The Presentation Night for the 2021/22 season and Pairs competition were held at Oxton Conservative Club on 25th September 2022.

Division One Winners – Gladly Stoned	Division One Runners-up – Oxton Conservatives
Division Two Winners – Gasworks Gang	Division Two Runners-up – Plasterers Arms
The Martin Prendergast Trophy for the best individual score in Division I went to Jim Eccleson	The Andrea Jones Trophy for the best individual score in Division 2 went to Steve Lomas who couldn’t attend on the night but received his trophy the next day
The Wirral MIMIR trophy was won by Jim Eccleson	The Pairs Competition was hotly contested, with Jim Eccleson (Oxton Conservatives) and Fiona McDougall (Shipwrecked) seeing off their opponents

Wirral Quiz League’s Presentation Night will take place this year at Oxton Conservative Club on Sunday 25^th September 2022 at 8pm.

In addition to the prize giving the evening will involve a meeting of the Wirral Quiz League and the Wirral Pairs Competition. Our friends from the Liverpool Quiz League are welcome to join us.

The fixtures for September have been added to the fixtures page.  The full fixtures will be loaded after the Presentation Night where league handbooks will be distributed.

The meeting will be held at Oxton Conservative Club on Sunday 25th September 2022 at 8pm. The Wirral Pairs competition will also be held that night and a cordial invitation is extended to all Liverpool Quiz League members who are eligible to compete. Pairs will be selected randomly on the night.

All players are invited to take part in a Pairs Competition to help celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the MQL. This will take place on Wednesday 11 September 2019 at Hoylake Social Club, 11 Trinity Road, Hoylake, Wirral CH47 2BR starting at 8pm.

Players who wish to take part will be ranked and then pairs will be created on the night by drawing a player from the top half of the rankings with one from the other half. The first stage of the competition is usually a 40 or 50 question quiz in which each pair write their answers to spoken questions.

The top 6 pairs progress to a “15 to 1” style Semi-Final in which each pair starts with 3 “lives” and questions are asked to each pair in turn. When three pairs have been eliminated then the remainder go through to the Final played on the same lines.

If time permits, we also hope to have a Plate Competition so that as many as possible remain involved as the evening progresses.

There is no entry fee and light refreshments will be served. If you would like to take part then please register with Brian Thompson (briathom59@gmail.com) by midday on Wednesday 4 September (1 week before the competition).

Liverpool Quiz League Presentation Evening 2019
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Pairs Competition

As is traditional, Wirral players are invited to attend the Liverpool Quiz League presentation evening and take part in the annual Pairs competition.  Players are randomly paired on the evening and there will be a qualifying written quiz to select the six highest scoring pairs.  These will then go forward into a 15-to-1 style knockout quiz to decide the champions.

The event takes place on Monday 13th May 2019, starting at 8pm at Aigburth People’s Hall, Aigburth Vale, Liverpool, L17 0DG

Refreshments will be provided.