Warrington Quiz League

The final of the MCC Plate took place at the Sands Hotel, Ainsdale on Wednesday 11th May 2016.  The match was between WSC Woodworms of the Warrington League and Exiles of the Liverpool League.

You can watch the whole match below.  (Apologies to the players whose faces are not visible - the layout of the room made it impossible to fit everybody in.

Warrington YMCA are holding a St George's Day quiz to raise much needed funds to help keep it afloat.  They recently lost a large council contract and are struggling for funding - see the BBC website here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35696501

The quiz will take place on Friday 22nd April, at 7.30pm with an entrance fee of £2.50 per person.

The quiz will be held at:

Richmond's Social Club
Richmond St
Warrington
Cheshire WA4 1NS

There is ample parking at the venue.

In the MQL MIMIR heats, held at Aigburth People's Hall on 16th March 2016, the results were as follows:

(Yellow = qualified in 1st place, silver = qualified in 2nd place)

Semi Finals

Mark Kerr will be unable to play in the final, so his place will be taken by the highest scoring third place finisher, who is Neil Macaskill

The final will be held at the MQL Presentation and Finals night, to be held at The sands Hotel, Ainsdale on May 11th 2016.

The Warrington Individual Competition will be held on Wednesday 17^th February 2016 at St Joseph’s Club, Meeting Lane, Penketh commencing at 8pm promptly.  All members of all League teams are invited to take part and the Competition is also open to non-League players should anyone wish to come along and sample the delights of quizzing.  Non-participating supporters are also welcome. If you don't fancy playing, we always need help with questions, scoring and bonus recording.

The overall winner on the night will become the Warrington Quiz League Individual Champion and the top finishers will go forward to the finals of the MQL MIMIR championship.

If you don't know how the competition works, have a look at the video below of last year's MQL MIMIR final.

It is with great sadness we have to report the death this afternoon, in Warrington General Hospital, of Olive Behan. Olive had been in hospital for seven weeks and had undergone two major operations. In the end this proved too much for her. Olive was a long-standing player in the Quiz League, a member of the Warrington Sports Club Woodworms team, and several times winner of the Warrington Individual Trophy. I am sure that she will be sadly missed by all who knew her.

She was also a member of the Warrington Sports Club team that won BBC's Materteam in 1985, causing quite a stir, as this quote from the UK Gameshows website shows:

One member of the Warrington Sports Club team was a rather elderly lady called Olive. She became something of a star in the first series. The show's most memorable moment of all came in an open round, when Angela asked the question "Who is the lead singer of Motorhead?", to which Olive confidently replied "Lemmy"! She had done a lot of research into pop music, which was not otherwise a specialist subject.

Olive was also an excellent Scrabble player, being UK National Champion twice, in 1972 and 1975.

As yet we have no details regarding funeral arrangements but will advise all of you as soon as we have any information.