Mersey Summer Quiz League

We're back, after disruption caused by our hosting provider

The question sets for the 2019 season have been unlocked and are now freely available, but please note that copyright is retained by the Mersey Summer Quiz League and the sets may not be used for commercial purposes.

The fixtures for the 2018 season have been added to the calendar and can also be downloaded from here:

12 teams have registered for the new season, so there will be 11 weeks of competition.

10 teams have signed up for the 2017 season, including for the first time a team from Wirral.

The season kicks off with a Grand Prix/Organisation meeting on 12th June at Aigburth People's Hall, with the league matches starting the following Monday.  All fixtures can be found in the Fixture Calendar and team and venue details on the Teams page.

It is too late now to register any new teams, but we will try to find teams for any individual players who would like to take part.  Please contact us using the "Join a Team" page.

The 2016 season of the Mersey Summer Quiz will commence on 6th June 2016 with the usual table quiz/organisational meeting at Aigburth People's Hall.  Kick off will be at 8.30pm and all are welcome.

The main season will begin the following Monday, with 11 teams taking part this year.  Full fixtures are in the fixtures calendar.

As mentioned at the final quiz of the season, the surplus funds in the MSQL coffers (£100) were donated to Mary's Meals, a charity supplying nutritious food to schoolchildren in Africa. The receipt can be seen below (click on it to see it at full size):

As the season is now finished, the passwords have been removed from the question sets on the Quizzes page.

All of this season's fixtures have now been added to the Fixtures calendar

The new season of the Mersey Summer League will begin on Monday 8th June 2015 with a grand prix event to be held at Aigburth People's Hall, beginning at 8.00pm. The quiz will consist of 60 written questions, a music round and a picture round.

Questions and fixtures for the rest of the season will be handed out at the event.

This is just to confirm dates for the Summer League and deal with a few other preliminaries before we start the season.

We’ll begin the season on Monday June 2^nd for a Grand Prix, at Aigburth People’s Hall, Aigburth Vale, Liverpool, L17 0DJ.  The evening will begin at 8pm.  On that night, as well as playing the Grand Prix, we’ll distribute fixtures, contact information and questions, and collect subs.  Owing to a reserve from last season, we’re able to reduce the subs this year to £20 per team.

The season will then run every Monday for nine weeks, and end with another Grand Prix on August 4^th.

MQL are keen to investigate electronic question distribution, which is used in the Quiz League of London, and saves considerable expense as well as not being at the mercy of the post!  We’ve agreed to pilot electronic distribution alongside printed questions this summer.  This will give us, and MQL, a chance to see what issues might be raised and also hopefully give us evidence with which to convince anybody who is reluctant to make the switch.

The system will be explained fully at the Grand Prix, but basically the quiz is sent by email or posted online as a password protected pdf file available for download on the day of the quiz.  The sixteen-character password is split in two, with eight characters sent to the home team, and eight to the away team by email or text.  On arrival at the venue, the two halves of the password are entered and the quiz is opened to be read from whatever device is to be used.  While teams would need a laptop or tablet to read the quiz, since it can be downloaded ahead of time, there is no need for internet access at the venue.

We propose that a small number of teams will have electronic questions at their home games, but this will potentially involve all teams at some point in the season.  For this reason, we will need an email address and/or mobile number for two members of each team, so that the password can be sent in order to access the questions; of course at least one of these two players must be in attendance at any relevant game.  If any team is particularly keen to be among those receiving questions electronically, let us know.  We’ve had a couple of offers already, but we’d like to have two games each week using electronic questions, so would welcome volunteers.

We look forward to seeing you on June 2^nd,

Angela & Brian