Ormskirk Quiz League

The opening event of the 50th season was held at Aughton Institute on Wednesday. We welcomed officers of MQL together with representatives of the other leagues. We celebrated the success of the Ormskirk President’s Trophy team, both historically and in recent seasons, by watching three matches between the present team, past players and a team of TV/radio winners including ‘Egghead’ Barry Simmons.

We also looked at how the league was founded in 1970 and introduced five of the six current players who first competed in 1973 or earlier. We concluded with memories of two men without whose efforts we would not have enjoyed all these years of playing quiz, Peter Richardson and Norman Green.

Photos of the teams and the long serving players are here.

David Hodgson (Rugby Hounds) with his partner from Wirral qualified (after a three-way tie) for the semi finals where they were the final team to be eliminated, so finished fourth overall. Alan Gibbs (Unison), also with a Wirral partner, won the table quiz on the events of 1959, the year in which MQL was founded. Full details are here.

The teams for the opening event next Wednesday are:-

Ormskirk President's Trophy

John Wilson, Gary Grant, Mike Unsworth, Pat Gibson

Former Ormskirk President's Trophy 

Andy Francis, Jim Maloney, Darren Martin, Ray Oakes

TV/radio winners

Jim Eccleson, Mal Collier, Dag Griffiths, Barry Simmons

8 30 start at Aughton Institute

Helenians win the league. 

Helenians                             4  3  0  1  6

Ormskirk Tennis Club           4  2  0  2  4

Unison                                  4  2  0  2  4

Colly Wobblers                     4  1  1  2  3

Ormskirk Theatre Company 4  1  1  2  3

Gary Grant can be heard in the fourth semi final on July 8. If you subscribe (for free) to the podcast it should record automatically.