Wirral Quiz League

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.

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. 

A great night at the Wirral Mimir occurred on Thursday 7th February. An incredibly close final saw Jim Eccleson (Oxton Cons) answer his final three questions correctly to pip Karl Whelan (Hoylake LTC) by 1 just 1 point. Sam Roberts (Plasterer's Arms) and Kevin Mather (Extras) weren't far behind.

Full results from every match played now follow

Chris Weston won the  tiebreaker 1-0 to qualify

* Scoresheet is missing for this match

As Rodney Watkins is unable to attend the finals night the seven qualifiers from Wirral are the other 7 semi finalists. Peter Maddocks and Jon Stitcher are first reserves

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.

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.