Quiz Liverpool

The Wirral Quiz League held their annual presentation evening and pairs competition on Sunday 24th September at Thingwall Recreation Centre.

Some members of the Liverpool League took up the open invitation to take part in the Pairs competition.  Congratulations to Roy Moss (Palmy Army) and Chris Quinn (Rainhill Victoria) who were drawn together and were the eventual winners.  

Thanks to our friends in the Wirral League for a most enjoyable evening.

Details are on the Wirral Website at http://www.wirralql.org.uk/presentation-evening-and-pairs-competition-2017.aspx

The fixtures for the new season have been published and can be found in the Fixtures Calendar.

The fixtures for each team can be found on their own team page from the Teams menu.

PLEASE NOTE that the fixtures on 2nd and 9th October 2017 are DOUBLE HEADERS - we suggest for fairness that the home team provide the sandwiches, while the away team buys the drinks.  These fixtures are shown in yellow on the team pages.

Liverpool Quiz League Presentation Evening 2017 and Annual Pairs Competition

Monday 5th June 2017, 8pm Aigburth People’s Hall, Aigburth Vale, Liverpool, L17 0DJO

Our evening will begin with the draw for the Pairs Competition. The questions are set this year by last year’s winners; Rod Moore and Dave Wright. Pairs are drawn from the hat for those wishing to enter the competition.

The first part of the Pairs competition is 40 questions, each pair of contestants writes their answers on the answer sheet. Following the first part the sheets are marked with the top six pairs going through to a 15 to 1 style knock out and then the top three carry on until the winners remain.

We will then have refreshments followed by the Presentation;

Liverpool Mimir Competition

Arthur Evans Shield  - Mark Kerr of Rainhill Victoria

Division 3

Runners Up FD Hill Trophy - St Patrick’s

Winners Bill Palmer Cup - Bookworms

Division 2

Runners Up Old Wallaseyans Trophy - Eleanor’s

Winners George Taylor Cup - CTK Cavaliers

Division 1

Runners Up William Ross Cup - Kluggers

Winners Bert Dutton Cup - Rainhill Victoria

Ted Riley Cup

Runners Up - Aigburth Cricket Club, Liverpool Quiz League

Winners - Tramway, Liverpool Quiz League

We hope that all Liverpool teams and Wirral Teams who took part in the Riley Cup, or any individual members of a team will join us to celebrate our 2017 season.

For catering purposes, we need to have some idea of how many people will be coming. So if you are an individual or a Team Secretary, will you please send me an email and let me know if you will be joining us by 5pm on Sunday 4th June 2017 at the latest.

The MQL Finals night was held at St Joseph's, Warrington on Wednesday 10th May 2017. You can watch the quizzes that took place below:

Plate Final

Challenge Cup Final

Please note that due to technical problems only the first six rounds were recorded.

MIMIR Final

The Liverpool Quiz League AGM will be held on Monday April 3rd at 9pm at Aigburth People's Hall. All are encouraged to attend.

The date set in 2016 for the 2017 MQL AGM was Sunday 30 April.  This is of course the Sunday of the Bank Holiday weekend, so it has been decided to bring this forward by one week to Sunday 23 April.  Still at Old Swan Conservative Club, 73 Derby Lane, Liverpool L13 6QE at 8pm

Given this late change of date, the 28 day deadline for any written proposals to be received will still stand at the original date of 2 April.

The heats of the 2017 MIMIR competition were held at New Brighton Cricket Club on the night of 22nd March.  The full results can be seen on the MQL site at http://www.merseysidequizleagues.org.uk/mimir.aspx

The finalist will be Charles Johnsom (Ormskirk), Rod Moore (Liverpool), Tom Farley (Southport & Formby) and Karl Whelan (Wirral)

Liverpool Quiz League is organising the 2017 Riley Cup Competition.

There are 39 teams competing for the Ted Riley Cup this year, all correspondence will be by email (except for the questions!)

The draw has been made for the first three rounds, they will be played on 10th and 24th April 2017 and 8th May, all games in these rounds will commence at 9pm.  Fixtures are in the calendar and on the Riley Cup page.

The quarter finals, semi-finals and final will commence at 8.00pm on 15th May 2017, at Aigburth People’s Hall, L17 0DJ. The draw taking place on the night.

Scoring and timing
As in previous years we will adopt the following rule for scoring and timing;
Each individual player shall be allowed to attempt to answer their own question for two points.
If they answer incorrectly, it can be attempted for one point by another member of their own team.
If this attempt is wrong, it then passes over to the opposition for one point.
Timing; 10 seconds for your own question, 5 seconds for the other team members to answer and five seconds for the opposition to answer.

Results
The winning team should send them to me, immediately after the game (so that I have them by 10pm on the night of the game), by text to 07758 464 110 (leaving the names and scores for each team) or email pauldavitt@virginmedia.com. As there is a short time between games I would appreciate that you comply with this request, as there is very little time to send out the next set of questions.

Protests
In the event of a protest, team captains should advise me on the Monday night, then confer on the Tuesday and advise me by 8pm of the result of their consultation, by phone or email. If the team captains fail to agree; Paul Davitt, Jim Eccleson, Keith Clare and Angela Doyle will adjudicate by noon on the Wednesday.

Spare Questions;
If a Question Set fails to arrive, you may obtain a spare set from one of the following;

Angela Doyle 0151 722 1054 Jim Eccleson 0151 653 8649 Paul Davitt 0151 427 7617

You may follow the progress of the competition on the Liverpool Quiz League Website http://www.quizliverpool.org.uk/ted-riley-cup.aspx

All teams will have the results emailed to them each week.

Should you have any queries or questions regarding the competition please do not hesitate to contact me.

Good luck to you all and I hope you enjoy the competition.

Paul Davitt
General Secretary Liverpool Quiz League

As all of the heats in the different leagues have now taken place, we can now show the Liverpool Final.

This year's MIMIR (Individual) competition will be held at Aigburth People's Hall on 1st February, with registration starting at 8pm.  The winner on the night will receive the Arthur Evans Trophy, and the top 8 players will be invited to take part in the MQL Mimir competition, the heats of which will take place on 22nd March 2017 at a Wirral venue.

Timings on the night are expected to be as follows:

• 8.00pm Registration
• 8.15pm Preliminary Rounds
• 9.30pm Refreshments
• 10.00pm Final

Pre-registration is not necessary, but it will help with the catering if you could inform Paul Davitt of your intentions by 30th Jan.