Wirral Quiz League

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.

We are saddened to announce the passing of Mal Leeming the long term secretary of Legionnaires team. He was much loved due to his unique personality, sense of humour and quick wit. He had a fascinating view on life and was interested in all the people he came into contact with. He will be sadly missed.

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

This year's Mimir competition will take place on Thursday February 7th at New Brighton Cricket Club.

The event is open to all players in both divisions of the Wirral Quiz League and the top 7 players will qualify for the Merseyside finals.

The event will start at 8pm promptly, please let us know if you intend to attend as we are anticipating the need for a preliminary round this year.

Also, if anyone would like to assist with officiating then please come along.

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.