Wirral Quiz League

The Wirral Heats of the MIMIR (individual) competition will yake place at New Brighton Cricket Club on Thursday 8th Feb 2018, beginning at 8pm.

The competition is open to any player who has played in a Wirral Quiz League team this season.

Please come along and encourage other members of your team to attend.

A full day's convivial quizzing will be taking place next Saturday, 16th December, at The Cross Keys pub in Earle Street, Liverpool (just off Old Hall Street), beginning at 11.00am and running through until about 5.00pm.

There will be three main quizzes - an Individual written quiz, a team quiz and a special quiz (details to follow).

Amongst the quizzers attending will be members of the Eggheads and Chasers and you could play with them in the team quiz where the teams are drawn at random from all of the entrants.

The cost for the day's quality quizzing is just £5 per head (pay at the door), and food is available in the pub, or there are plenty of restaurants, cafes and sandwich shops within a short walk of the venue.

Please let us know in advance if you intend to come, either by signing up at Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quiz-in-the-north-15-liverpool-tickets-38698886411?aff=eac2 or by telling us on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/2143360435677857/

The annual league presentation night and pairs competition was held at Thingwall Rec Centre on 24th September 2017.

Division 2 Runners Up - Taxes

Division 2 Winners - Plasterers Arms

Division 1 Runners Up - Oxton Conservatives

Division 1 Winners - Gladly Stoned

MIMIR Individual Winner - Karl Whelan

President's Shield (MQL) Winners - Wirral 2

Rendon Cup (MQL) Winners - Plasterers Arms

The Pairs Competition was won by Roy Moss and Chris Quinn (both of the Liverpool League) after a tight fought and entertaining competition. Video of the match will appear soon.

Liverpool Quiz League Presentation Evening 2017 and Annual Pairs Competition

Monday 5th June 2017

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

The evening will begin with the draw for the Pairs Competition, which is open to all members of the Liverpool and Wirral Quiz Leagues. The questions are set this year by last year’s winners; Rod Moore and Dave Wright. 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.

We will then have refreshments followed by the Presentations;

For catering purposes, we need to have some idea of how many people will be coming. So if you are an individual or a Team Secretary, will you please send an email to pauldavitt@virginmedia.com to let him know if you will be attending by 5pm on Sunday 4th June 2017 at the latest.

The 2017 Riley Cup final rounds took place at Aigburth People's Hall on Monday 15th May 2017

The final was between Aigburth Cricket Club (Liverpool 3) and Tramway (Liverpool 2)

The MQL Finals night was held at St Joseph's, Warrington on Wednesday 10th May 2017. You can watch the quizzes that took place below:

Plate Final

Challenge Cup Final

Please note that due to technical problems only the first six rounds were recorded.

MIMIR Final

On 6th May 2017, the Quizzing Grand Prix circuit event will be held at The Hoylake Social Club.

If you have not taken part in one of these events before, they consist on a 90 minute written quiz, split into six different genera, such as Sport, entertainment etc.  Overall results are calculated on your best 5 scores out of the six, and there are also awards for the top scorers in each of the genera.

Your results contribute to a set of national quiz rankings, enabling you to compare your performance against hundreds of quizzers around the country and indeed the world.

After the written quiz, there will be a team quiz, and the Hot 100, an international quiz taken by players around the world.

The event opens at 11.00am, for an 11.30amd start, and costs £12.50 per player (first timers and registered students get a 50% discount for their first event).

To allow for printing etc, you should register on the Quizzing Website (www.quizzing,co.uk) or via the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1637010162987174/?ti=cl

The draw for the heats of the MQL MIMIR competition have been made and are shown below. The matches will be played on Wednesday 22 March, beginning at 8pm at New Brighton Cricket Club.

The final will be held at the MQL Presentation Night on Wed 10th May 2017 at a Warrington venue.

A football themed quiz is to be held at the Ship and Mitre, Dale Street, Liverpool on Thursday 9th March 2017.

The quiz starts at 7.30pm, with refreshments at about 9pm.  All quizzers are welcome, and if you would like more details, please email Steve Lomas at steve.lomas1@btinternet.com