Wirral Quiz League

Congratulations go to Oxton Cons who won the MCC Plate competition with a comfortable win in the final against Judges of Liverpool thanks to a superb all round team performance.

Wirral's Karl Whelan and Jim Eccleson were both appearing in the Mimir final against Pat Gibson (of Eggheads fame) and John Wilson, both of Ormskirk. It was a great competition and Karl was leading going into the final 3 questions but Pat knew all 3 and pipped Karl by 1 point.

There was also moderate success for Wirral players at the Liverpool Pairs evening. Pam Baker (Soapsuds), who was paired with Stuart Scholes of Kluggers finished 4th and Jon Stitcher (Plasterer's Arms) who was paired with Peter Harris of Aigburth Swans came 3rd.

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.

Former Wirral Quiz League player Peter Burbidge died on the 5th April and his funeral is at Landican Cemetary onTuesday 23.4.2019 at 3.30pm

He was a founder member of the team Oxton Dynamo in the late eighties - along with Jim Robinson and his brother Bob. The team achieved promotions from Division 3 through Division 2 into Division 1 by 2000 and was then wound up - he later played for Oxton Conservatives. In the last couple of years he had retired from competitive quizzing but continued to enjoy quiz nights.

Seven Wirral players attended the Merseyside wide finals night for the Mimir, 5 of us fell at the first stage but Karl Whelan and Jim Eccleson went all the way and have qualified for the Mimir final which will take place at 8pm on the 15th May at Hoylake Social Club. This event will also host the MCC final and the MCC plate final, the latter of which will see Wirral team Oxton Conservatives playing.

There is also the presentation of trophies so the Wirral President's Shield team, captained by Steve Lomas will be collecting the President's shield AND the Presidential Challenge. 

The evening will be catered and it would be great to see lots of Wirral players in attendance to cheer on Karl and Jim and to celebrate the great performance of the President's Shield team.

For the second time this year, a Wirral player has made it into contestants' row on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!.  Following up Jon Stitcher's appearance earlier in the year, Helen Belcham of Soapsuds will be appearing on Thursday March 7th.

Does she have a fast finger?  Will she ask the audience?  Has her friend paid his phone bill?  Tune in on Thursday to find out.

I'm sure you'll join us in wishing her the best of luck. 

To accompany our Twitter account there is now also a WQL FB page which can be found at 
https://www.facebook.com/WirralQuizLeague/
Results and news will be posted there as well as on this website but it is hoped that it may help us reach a new audience and increase numbers.