Wirral Quiz League

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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.

The Quiz in the North is a highly successful series of non-profit quiz events designed for quizzers of all levels and standards and are always a fantastic day out.

On Saturday 23rd June there will be an event held at Hoylake Social Club with all the questions set by Wirral chairman, Jon Stitcher.

There will be an individual quiz and two team quizzes. Plus an optional evening event. All of this costs just £5 with all profits going to the Clatterbridge Cancer charity.

This is your chance to go head to head, or even be teamed up with, stars of the TV quiz shows Eggheads and The Chase.

Anyone interested can register their interest at

 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quiz-in-the-north-hoylake-wirral-tickets-43153361867

Or join the Facebook event at

https://www.facebook.com/events/1826435224324558/

There will be a special award for the highest placing Wirral player. Feel free to invite friends and family along too, we want to see as many people there as possible.

The Wirral Quiz League would like to offer huge congratulations to Karl Whelan (Hoylake LTC) who has retained his Mimir trophy for the best individual player across the entire Merseyside Quiz league. To win it once is hard enough but Karl now has four triumphs putting him third on the all time list. It should also be noted that Jim Eccleson (Oxton Cons) came second for a Wirral 1-2. Many congratulations to both players

In the 2018 Riley Cup Final, JC and the Jets of the Liverpool League took on Nelson's Fifth Column (Wirral) after the teams worked their way through the Quarter and Semi Finals.  At the end of the final, JC and the Jets, who had a handicap of 25 point, beat Nelson's Fift Column, who had a handicap of 19 points, by 58 points to 55.

You can watch the final below: