Wirral Quiz League

Online Quiz League are running their inaugural individual championships on Saturday 25th March.  Around 300 players have already signed up to play at venues up and down the country.  The day involves a written individual quiz featuring 200 questions across a whole manner of subjects and then two fun team quizzes in the afternoon.

This is looking like being the biggest event of its kind ever in the UK and one of the venues is the Cross Keys, a pub in Liverpool city centre.  There are currently around 15 spaces left available there and it would be great to see those spaces filled with MQL players.

For more details and to register please go to  https://quizcentral.net/qc/Individual_Championships

As the season is finishing earlier than usual, a short handicap cup competition, for the Absent Friends trophy, has been arranged. This will be a knock-out tournament, with the first round on Monday 6th March, the second on 13th March and semi-finals and the final on 22nd March. The semis and final will be played at the Lever Club. Matches must be played on Mondays, with the usual start time of 8.45 p.m. unless teams wish to mutually agree a different time.

With two late entries, sixteen teams are taking part and the first round draw is below. Home teams are shown first and the numbers following the team names are the handicaps.

Magpies 25 v Taxes 18

Heinz the Male Goat 3 v Aardvarks 16

Shipwrecked 18 v Roundheads 17

Oxton Cons 7 v Wallaseyans 12

Lever Club 29  v Nelsons 14

Joeys Nomads 10 v Extras 8 (will be played at Extras venue)

Gladly Stoned 0 v Plasterers 13

Thingwall 12 v Soapsuds 5 (will be played at Soapsuds venue)

This competition is being run by Kris Jones of Aardvarks who has sent full details of the rules to all nominated team captains. Results need to be notified to him as soon as the match is finished.

Congratulations to Neil Wright of Soapsuds who scored his second full house of the season in a match against Thingwall.

With two games remaining in the final round of matches, played 22 February, Wirral sat third in the table with 16 points behind Ormskirk (20) and Liverpool 2A (17). We firstly defeated Liverpool 2A with Ormskirk defeating Warrington.

We then had a resounding victory against Warrington and Liverpool 2A defeated Ormskirk, which meant Wirral and Ormskirk were tied on 24 points. To decide the winners of the Shield, points difference was taken into account and, thanks to our final big win, Wirral were declared the winners!

Congratulations to the team - Joe Davies, Pam Baker, Steve Lomas and Mike McDonough. Many thanks too for guest appearances from Caroline Kay and Len Davies for stepping in while yours truly was Down Under!

Steve Lomas (team captain)

Congratulations to Soapsuds who have won the Division 1 title with one game to spare.

‘Potato TV’, the TV Production company behind such hit shows as ‘The Chase’ and ‘Ninja Warrior UK’ are looking for FUN contestants to take part in a brand new BBC quiz show with thousands of pounds up for grabs!

They are keen to get a wide range of quiz enthusiasts to apply.

Link: https://eu.castitreach.com/ag/itv/quizshow/welcome.html

Closing Date: 10th March 2023 

You must be a UK resident and aged 18+ to apply. 

The Wirral heat of the Mimir Individual Competition will take place once again at New Brighton Cricket Club this year

The date is Wednesday 15th February 2023 commencing 8pm and the competition is open to all Wirral Quiz League players

Wirral are normally allowed 7 qualifiers to the further stages of this competition which this year will also take place at New Brighton Cricket Club on Wednesday 22nd March.This event will involve other qualifiers from the other areas of the Merseyside Quiz League

To comply with Martin’s wishes, his funeral was private.

His family has arranged a get together on Friday 27th January at New Brighton Cricket Club where friends and family can meet to talk about Martin and their memories of him.

The room has been booked from 1.30 p.m. until 5 p.m. and quizzers, past and present, who knew Martin and would like to attend can drop in at any time and stay for however long suits them.

New Brighton Cricket Club is in Wallasey, postcode CH45 5DE, for anyone who hasn’t previously attended.

Congratulations to Keith Jones of Thingwall who scored a full house on 16 January 2023.