Warrington Quiz League

The fourth Diamond Jubilee Pairs competition will be held on Wednesday 25th September starting at 8 pm at Prescot Cables FC club, courtesy of the Ormskirk QL.  The address is Eaton Street, Prescot, L34 6HB.

Format

All entrants will be placed into either a higher or lower pool and on the night a draw will be made to create pairs made from a player from each pool.  The First Round is a 40/50-question written quiz that will find the top 6 pairs.  In the Semi-finals these six pairs will be asked questions in turn in a 15 to 1 type format.  A pair has three lives and loses a life each time they answer incorrectly or fail to answer.  There are 10 seconds to answer and there are no bonuses.  The questioning continues until only three teams remain.  Those three teams then contest the Final played in the same way until a winning pair is found.  If there are sufficient numbers then the Pairs finishing seventh, eighth and ninth in the First Round will contest a Plate Final on the same lines as the Final.

Entry

If you would like to take part, then please send an email entitled Merseyside Pairs to either me (briathom59@gmail.com) and perhaps copy it to your League Secretary.  Entries will be confirmed on the Sunday before the competition.  The competition is open to MQL players and there is no charge for entering.

Reports on previous competitions can be seen on the webpage and a recording of the 2023 Final can be viewed here.

I hope that you will be able to join us and look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards

Brian Thompson

MQL General Secretary

Merseyside Quiz League (MQL) are delighted to announce that the MQL Buzzer quiz for 2025 will take place on Saturday 15th February at Hoylake Parade (the same venue the previous two events have been held).

Full details will be announced closer to the time but it is anticipated that teams will need to arrive for 10am and will be finishing around 7pm with a 90 minute break for lunch.

Entry will once again open to MQL teams first, this will happen on Monday 26th August at 7pm. For all other teams who’ve previously participated, registration will open on Monday 2nd September at 2pm. Should we still have spaces remaining after 9th September we will offer them out to anyone else.

Due to increased costs at our end, the entry fee will now be £100 per team with a 25% discount for any team whose squad includes 3 or more players who regularly play in MQL. All teams will play a guaranteed 8 matches and most will play 9.

To register please go to https://merseysidequizleagues.org.uk/buzzer-quiz.aspx and fill in your team details and we’ll be in touch with all teams as soon as registration has closed. Please do not register prior to the above dates or your entry will not be received.

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to ask.

The Challenge Cup Final this year was contested between Oxton of the Wirral League and Ringers of the Warrington League.  You can watch the match by clicking on the link below.

Some team photos from the 2024 buzzer tournament have been placed in the gallery on the MQL website at Gallery - Merseyside Quiz Leagues

Just click on the Buzzers 2024 folder to browse through them.

The final from this year's Buzzer Quiz is now available to watch.  Misfits took on Yorkshire at the end of a fine day's quizzing.

The 2023 Pairs Competition was Held at Prescot Cables FC on Wednesday 13th September 2023.

The three pairs in the final were Jim Eccleson (Wi) & Jack Gardner (S&F), Neil Wright (Wi) and Ben Vincent (Wa) and Sam Roberts (Wi) & Danny Grimes (Li)

The winners were Neil and Ben - Neil retaining the title, having won last year as well.

The Plate final was contested by Cliff Houghton (Wa) & David Hodgson(Or), Sue Perks (Or) & Chris Quinn (Li) and Mark Kerr (Li) and Bill Gerard (Or), with Mark and Bill winning the contest.

You can watch the final below:

Colin Foster and John Hall were both finalists in this season's MQL MIMIR competition.  You can see how they did in the video below:

You can watch the final between Wings (S&F) and Oxton Cons (Wi) below:
 

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

‘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.