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Merseyside Grand Prix - 2nd May 2009 As part of MQL's Golden Jubilee Celebrations, a Grand Prix Event was held at St Ann's Millennium Centre (pictured left) in Rainhill in conjunction with quizzing.co.uk. The event attracted a record number of entrants from all over the country including over thirty MQL players, many of whom were sampling this type of quizzing for the first time. The field included two World Champions, two £1m pound winners on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and other big money winners as well as series winners from Brain of Britain, Mastermind, Fifteen to One etc. Two of the BBC Eggheads team were also in attendance and during the day the BBC were auditioning for a new series of 'Are You An Egghead?' The morning session was taken up by the individual quiz set by Dag Griffiths and the afternoon schedule included a number of team quizzes played on MQL format. A big thank you to Mark Kerr for organising the venue and to his fellow setters for the afternoon's quizzing - Alan Gibbs, Chris Quinn, Darren Martin, John Wilson, Pat Gibson and Tom Farley. Thanks also are due to Graham Barker for providing overflow accommodation for the afternoon event. Fittingly the individual quiz was won by a Merseysider - Pat Gibson (Old Dog - Ormskirk) As is tradition with Grand Prix events, a thoroughly enjoyable day was rounded off in the evening by many of the attendees repairing to a local hostelry and curry house. |
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(Pictured left) Winner of the Individual
quiz, Pat Gibson with his prizes.
(Pictured right) First-timer Peter Duffy (left - Unison - Ormskirk League) and quizzing.co.uk director Chris Jones tackle the individual quiz comprising 6 genres - (Art & Culture, Civilisation, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Physical World and Sport & Games)
More photos from the event below |
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| John
Wilson (Old Dog - Ormskirk) and Tom Farley (Wings - S&F) settle down
for the individual quiz with three from the Wirral behind - Karl Whelan, Margaret Howe and Jim Eccleson. |
Martin
Prendergast (Gladly Stoned - Wirral). Darren Martin (Ten Singers -
Ormskirk) and Alan Gibbs (Wheatsheaf - Liverpool) in one of his 'trademark' shirts |
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| Five from Warrngton
sampling a GP for the first time - MQL Vice President Peter Deakin, Derek
Moody, MQL General Secretary Cliff Houghton, Elaine Bates and Gary Grant |
Phil
Duffy and Madeline Evans (Unison - Ormskirk) at the start of the
quiz with Arthur Heyes (pictured centre) from Wheatsheaf (Liverpool) |
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| Chris Quinn (right)
from Phoenix (Warrington) pctured with other GP regulars Mark Labbett
and David Stainer |
Among
the welcome visitors were GP regulars 'Egghead'
Barry Simmons, Stephen Pearson, Nick Mills and Olav Bjortomt |
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Mark Kerr (Rainhill
Victoria - Liverpool) in
Graham
Barker (Rainhill Victoria) |
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