Merseyside Quiz Leagues

To help stave off any quiz withdrawal, there is an online Friendly quiz available for Mon 17 Jan at 8pm!  You should have heard about it from your League Secretaries.  Please let Brian Thompson know by 5pm on Sunday if you'd like take part.

At a Council Meeting held on Sunday 2 January, as a result of the surge in COVID numbers, it was agreed to insert a 3 week break into the fixture schedule of all Leagues.  Therefore all matches will be moved back by 3 weeks ie those due to be played on Mon 10 and 11 January will now take place on 31 January and 1 February.    You will receive more details from your Area Secretary in due course.

A further meeting will be held on 23 January to review the situation.

It is with great sadness we have to report the death of Bob Wilkie, who passed away on Thursday 16th December.  Bob was one of the longest serving members of the MQL having been a player in the Liverpool league from the early seventies.  However, it was in the vital role of Question Distributor that Bob made an invaluable contribution to the running of the MQL.  Handbooks show that he was carrying out this job in 1977 and he continued for 44 years having only relinquished it earlier this year.
As a Distributor, Bob was an ex-officio member of the MQL Council and was a very regular attender of meetings. He served as President of the MQL from 2005 to 2008 and so had been a Vice-President from 2008 to date. The Leagues recognised his years of service with a presentation in 2009, and we are happy to say that he continued attending meetings until this year.  Bob would have been 84 on Christmas Day.  All at MQL offer our sincere condolences to his family and friends.  They have requested no cards or flowers.

Many congratulations to Karl Whelan who became the 68th Brain of Britain by winning the Final of the 2021 BBC Radio 4 competition when it was broadcast recently.  In lifting the trophy and winning the coveted title he succeeded fellow MQL player, Graham Barker who was the 2020 Champion.  Karl, who plays in the Wirral League, has won the MQL Mimir title on 5 occasions and he is the 4th MQL player to be Brain of Britain.