Wirral Quiz League

I have set up a Twitter account for the Wirral Quiz League which can be found here https://twitter.com/WirralQuizLeagu

I am going to try and use the account to promote the league and hopefully find some new players and teams and I will also post the results up there each week as well. If players could follow the account and perhaps retweet some of the posts we can hopefully raise awareness of the league throughout Wirral.

We have just learned that Martin Prendergast of Gladly Stoned passed away earlier this week. Martin's funeral will take place on Friday 9th November at 2:30pm at Landican. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends at this sad time. 

What follows is a brief obituary that Martin's teammates at Gladly Stoned have sent.

Mart joined us at the start of the 1990-91 season, when the Windsor Castle team moved to become the Royal; he had a relatively quiet first couple of seasons, then improved with amazing speed to become an outstanding quiz player in Challenge Cup, Riley Cup and Feeny Cup matches as well as in the league. He usually scored in the high teens – sometimes higher – and very rarely had a bad game. It was his arrival that ultimately transformed a fairly good quiz team into a title-winning one: his participation has been absolutely crucial to the success which the Royal/Gladly Stoned/New Broom quiz team have enjoyed over the last 20 years. His best season was 2011-12, when he played in all 28 league matches, scoring 438 points. In common with all great quiz players he not only possessed extensive knowledge but also had that uncanny knack of dragging up a correct answer seemingly from nowhere, to the delight of his team-mates and, no doubt, the consternation of opponents. He won the Wirral Mimir title on two occasions and played in the President’s Trophy team, as well as taking part in regional quiz competitions. He will be greatly missed by us all, and the MQL will be the poorer for his absence.

Dear teams,

We have recently added an individual scores page to our site under the results tab. For now these stats are purely for fun, although we do hope to offer trophies in the future for the best performing players in each division.

If any player or team do not want their statistics published please let a committee member know and they will be removed. Also, if any player wants their individual statistics then let us know.

Please can all teams now ensure that full score sheets are sent to chairman Jon Stitcher. The more score sheets we receive, the more accurate the statistics and also the more data we have for assessing balance and difficulty of sets the more reliable our analysis will be.

Do you and your mated fancy winning some cash?  How about applying for the Great British Pub Quiz?

The Presentation Night and Pairs Competition was held at Thingwall Recreation Club on Sunday 30th September.

Division 2 Runners-up were Soapsuds

Division 2 Winners were Bebington Hockey Club

Division 1 Winners were Oxton Conservative Club.

Second place in the Pairs Competition was taken by Angela Doyle (Bishop Eaton, Liverpool) & Margaret Howe (Bebington Hockey).

Winners of the Pairs Competition were Stave Lomas (Aardvarks) and Stuart Thompson (Bebington Hockey).

You can watch the Pairs competition here:

Congratulations to  Mike Montgomery of Oxton Conservatives who has obtained the first full house (all of his own questions correct) of the 2018/19 season.

Please note that Ship Inn of Division 2 have changed both their name and home venue.  They will now be known as Shipwrecked and will be playing their home matches at the Hoylake Social Club on Trinity Road, Hoylake.  Full address details are on the team page.

The League fixtures for September have now been published in the Fixtures Calendar.  The League Handbook, containing the full fixtures, will be distributes at the League Presentation night, to be held at Thingwall Recreation Centre on Sunday 30 September 2018 at 8.00pm.

In addition to the prize giving the evening will include a meeting of the Wirral Quiz League, a free buffet and the 7th Wirral Pairs Quiz Competition, with prizes for the winners. As in previous seasons we have extended an invitation for our friends in the Liverpool Quiz League to attend. 

All trophy winners should be present but all teams are encouraged to support the event.

There are various changes to Team names and venues - the major changes are:

1. WE’RE FOURTH ART THOU DAVID have changed their name to FOUR STORKERS
2. LITTLE HOUSE have changed their name to BRIGHT’S BOFFINS and will play at Wirral Liberal Club on Tuesdays
3. NEW BROOM have reverted to their previous name of GLADLY STONED and will play at Wirral Liberal Club on Mondays
4. MAGPIES have moved to the Saddle Inn, 30 Withens Lane, Wallasey, CH44 1DE
5. SHIPWRECKED A new team playing from Hoylake Social Club, team secretary is Caterina Gianota. N.B This team was due to play at The Ship Inn but have moved to Hoylake Social Club.

Andrea Jones, who died suddenly on Saturday 28th July, was a founder member of the Ovalteenies quiz team. Andrea played for Ovalteenies for many years, eventually becoming team captain, a role she did not relish, but fulfilled extremely well. She even survived a recent team name change to “Cheshire Cheese”.

Known as ‘our welsh correspondent’ she was not only proud to answer questions about the principality, but had a habit of correcting the pronunciation when others ventured answers to ‘Welsh’ questions. She was the cohesive force of her team, ever optimistic, and who will forget the slight groan followed by “come on, team” if things were not going to plan. She was a popular player who will be missed by all.

The recent Quiz in the North event raised over £300 for Clatterbridge Cancer Charity and was well attended by Wirral based quizzers.

The Liverpool Echo have done an article on the event which can be found here.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/in-your-area/jon-gets-right-answer-raise-14884842

Many thanks to everyone who attended and if anyone has any future fund raising ideas then let us know and Wirral Quiz League will do all we can to help facilitate.