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ORMSKIRK CHARITY LEAGUE 2012

Ormskirk teams enjoyed success in Merseyside Competitions in recent weeks.

The Ormskirk representative team retained the President's Trophy by beating Southport & Formby in a playoff.


(l to r) Phil Duffy Unison), Elaine Bates (MQL President), Ray Oakes (old Dog), Pat Gibson (Old Dog),
Madeline Evans (Unison), Darren Martin (Unison) and John Wilson (Old Dog)

Old Dog won the Feeny Cup and Farmers Arms won the Rendon Cup, both competitions for teams finishing at or near the top of their respective divisions.

Old Dog - Winners of 2012 Feeny Cup - Neil McCaskill. Pat Gibson, John Wilson, Elaine Bates (MQL President).Ray Oakes, Andy Page	Farmers Arms - Winners of 2012 Rendon Cup Charles Johnson, Bill Beckett, Marge Beckett, Debbie Davidson

Old Dog retained the Merseyside Challenge Cup.

John Wilson (Old Dog) won the MIMIR Trophy for Individual players.

Finals Night 2012

Around 50 players enjoyed the evening at Aughton Institute on 21st May.

In the Don Liptrot Trophy Plate Final Whippet beat Aughton Institute 82 to 61

In the Don Liptrot Trophy Final Colly Wobblers beat Ormskirk Tennis Club 60 to 49

In the MIMIR Individual Final the scores were:-

Pat Gibson 16
Alan Gibbs/Darren Martin 10
Ray Oakes 8

Colly Wobblers - winners of Don Liptrot Trophy 2012 Joe Keegan, Rita Aktuna, Andy McGowan and Steve Feller		Whippet winners of Don Liptrot Plate 2012 - Charlie McAuley Bob Edge, Brian Yates and Don McGair with Dave Boyd (League Chairman)
Colliers Arms - winners of Handicap League 2011-2012 Ray Chorley and Brian Ball with Bob Edge (guest of honour)		Unison - Peter Richardson Cup (Division 1 winners 2011-2012) Madeline Evans, Phil Duffy, Peter Duffy and Darren Martin with Bob Edge
		Farmers Arms Jack Hesketh Trophy (Division 2 winners 2011-2012) Joe O'Connor with Bob Edge (guest of honour)

PETER RICHARDSON It is our sad duty to report that MQL stalwart Peter Richardson has passed away. He is pictured left speaking in May 2009 at MQL's 50th Anniversary Presentation Evening. If you are in contact with any players/former players who played with/against Peter please inform them as well. A memorial service was held at Peter's local church St Mary's in Knowsley on Maundy Thursday. There was a good attendance from Ormskirk teams and MQL. Jim Maloney gave a very moving tribute on behalf of the league. A buffet was held in the church hall, where a photo montage of Peter's life and quiz career was on show together with his Krypton Factor Trophy. For details of Peter's quiz career see below:

Peter was there at the start of the Ormskirk Quiz League in 1970. His team the Golden Lion in Rainford had previously played in the Southport League. They are the most successful team in the history of the League. They were runner up in the first season and then won the next nine. In 1980 they changed name and venue to become Rex Lions. Over the next twenty years they won a further nine titles and were runner up on seven other occasions. They won the Handicap Knockout six times. When they left the League in 2002 Peter joined the Ropers Arms and was still playing this season by which time they were the Greyhound. In Merseyside competitions they won the Challenge Cup three times as Golden Lion and once as Rex Lions. They won the Feeny Cup twice. As an individual Peter won the MIMIR Trophy in 1980 and played for the Ormskirk team that won the Presidents' Trophy in 1989. As an administrator he gave his time to the Ormskirk League as a committee member and then as Chairman from 1982 to 2002. For many years he coordinated the production of the Ormskirk sets of questions which were used in the other leagues. He was President of the Merseyside Quiz Leagues from 1999 to 2002 and Assistant General Secretary from 1987 to 1997. In this latter role he produced very detailed analyses of all question sets played throughout the area. He also served as Auditor. In 2002 Peter became a Vice President of the MQL. Peter appeared on many TV and radio quiz programmes including 'Mastermind', 'Brain of Britain', Sale of the Century' and 'Winner Takes All'. He won 'The Krypton Factor' in 1979 at almost 50 years of age, famously walking the Assault Course as he was confident that he could score enough points on the General Knowledge.

The Don Liptrot Memorial Trophy (Handicap Knockout) 2012

Finals Monday May 21 Aughton Institute

	Cleverdicks Alan Gibbs (Wheatsheaf) appeared on Sky Atlantic's new quiz 'Cleverdicks' on Tuesday February 28th. He won Round 1 with 21 points and Round 2 with 25 points, but lost in a head to head Round 3 to returning winner Rob Hannah. Look out for more familiar faces. Visit the Sky Atlantic website to play an online game. http://skyatlantic.sky.com/shows/cleverdicks
Two more Ormskirk players appeared in week 2 of Cleverdicks. Madeline Evans (Unison) reached Round 2 on Episode 9. Andy Page (Old Dog) won on Episode 10 beating former Brain of Britain Iwan Thomas in the final. Unfortunately he did not win any money.

Squigglers on Eggheads
Tuesday 7th February 2012

FINALS NIGHT 2012

MONDAY MAY 21ST

AUGHTON INSTITUTE 8 30PM

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DON LIPTROT TROPHY PLATE FINAL

AUGHTON INSTITUTE (38) V WHIPPET (25)

DON LIPTROT TROPHY FINAL

COLLY WOBBLERS (12) V ORMSKIRK T C (22)

PRESENTATION OF TROPHIES

RAFFLE

REFRESHMENTS

MIMIR TROPHY ORMSKIRK FINAL

ALAN GIBBS
PAT GIBSON
DARREN MARTIN
RAY OAKES

MQL Cup/Plate Semifinals

This was not a good evening for most of the 5 Ormskirk teams on a tough set of questions.

Cup

Unison 36 Old Dog 41
Wheatsheaf 24 Sir Henry Segrave (Southport) 32

Darren Martin scored 14 and Phil Duffy 15 for Unison with Pat Gibson scoring 19 and Ray Oakes 10 for Old Dog.
Alan Gibbs scored 17 for Wheatsheaf.

Plate

Bishop Eton (Liverpool) 25 Colly Wobblers 21
Wallaseyans (Wirral) 24 Greyhound 23

Mike Unsworth scored 13 for Colly Wobblers.

The Cup Final is on Thursday May 24th at Unison Club in St Helens.

Merseyside Challenge Cup/Plate

All 5 Ormskirk teams are still involved at the semi final stage.

In the Challenge Cup Wheatsheaf host Sir Henry Segrave (Southport).

Unison host Old Dog (the holders) - their second game of that week.

In the Plate Greyhound travel to Wallaseyans (Wirral).

Collywobblers (the holders) travel to Bishop Eton (Liverpool).

All games will be played on Wednesday March 14th.


MIMIR Heats
In the Ormskirk heat of the MIMIR Trophy 24 players plus spectators turned out at The Greyhound.

After two rounds eight semi finalists remained with the following results

Match 1

Ray Oakes (Old Dog) 16
Tony Grieco (Greyhound) 10
Mal Collier (Greyhound) 7
Janet Crompton (Squigglers) 14

Match 2

Darren Martin (Unison) 14
Pat Gibson (Old Dog) 14
Phil Duffy (Unison) 12
Alan Gibbs (Wheatsheaf) 13

The final will be played at the Finals Night on Monday May 21st at Aughton Institute.

For further details of these events and any other matters please email ormquizsec@sky.com

The Old Dog is closed.
The team now plays at the Dog and Gun on Long Lane in Aughton, the same venue as Ormskirk Farmers and Ormskirk Tennis Club.

CHARITY LEAGUE RESULTS 2011

June 13
Helenians 66 Ormskirk T.C. 46
Wheatsheaf 58 Unison 46

June 20
CollyWobblers 39 Wheatsheaf 53
Unison 47 Helenians 45

June 27
Helenians 54 CollyWobblers 52
Ormskirk T.C. 58 v Unison 56

July 4
Unison 44 CollyWobblers 44
Ormskirk T.C. 41 Wheatsheaf 56

July 11
Wheatsheaf 51 Helenians 53
CollyWobblers 48 Ormskirk T.C. 54

Presentation and Finals Night - May 16th

51 players from 15 teams were at Aughton Institute to see the two finals.

In the Plate Final Unison had disposed of the handicap of 9 points after 2 Rounds and went on to beat Wheatsheaf by 53 points to 43
Phil Duffy and Darren Martin both scored 16 with Dave Waddilove scoring 15 for the losers.

In the Final of the Don Liptrot Trophy Abbey Saints just failed to overcome the handicap of 18 points.
They were on target at half time, being 9 behind, but Aughton Institute eventually won by 4 points.
Brian Davies led the way for the winners with 12, Barbara Flaherty scoring 17 for the losers.

Feeny, Rendon and MQL Plate Finals - May 11th at St Francis de Sales Parochial Club, Walton.

Congratulations to Unison who beat Oxton Cons (Wirral) in the final of the Feeny Cup.

Congratulations also to Colly Wobblers, the holders, who beat Baltic Fleet (Liverpool) in the final of the MQL Plate.

Merseyside Finals/Presentation Night - May 18th at St Stephen's Warrington

Congratulations to Old Dog, the holders who won the final of the Merseyside Challenge Cup.
Their opponents were Wings from Southport.

Congratulations also to Pat Gibson (Old Dog) who won the FInal of the 2011 MIMIR Trophy.
Phil Duffy (Unison) was also a finalist together with Tom Farley (Wings, Southport) and Jim Eccleson (Oxton Cons, Wirral)

The Don Liptrot Memorial Trophy (Handicap Knockout) 2011

Presentation and Finals Night
Monday May 16th Aughton Institute 8pm

MIMIR Trophy - 2010

Ormskirk Heat - Wednesday February 16th
Ship Inn, Wheat Lane, Lathom L40 3BX

A thrilling final was the culmination of a very enjoyable evening of quizzing in the Ormskirk heat of the 2011 MIMIR Trophy.

20 players and spectators assembled at the Ship Inn to see exciting 1st Round and Semi final matches.

The final four were John Wilson, Pat Gibson and Ray Oakes from Old Dog plus Phil Duffy from Unison.

With 1 Round remaining three players had 10 points and one had 11 points.

The final scores were:
John Wilson 15
Ray Oakes 14
Pat Gibson 12
Phil Duffy 12

The four finalists plus Rita Aktuna (Collywobblers), Darren Martin (Unison) and Dave Waddilove (Wheatsheaf)
qualified for the Merseyside heat held on Thursday March 24th at Unison Club in St Helens.

Mastermind 'Champion of Champions'

Congratulations to Pat Gibson (Old Dog) who in August 2010 won the battle for the ultimate title, Mastermind Champion of Champions.
Sixteen past champions including Andy Page (also Old Dog) participated in the event,

In their heats Pat took 'Pixar Animated Films' and Andy answered questions on the TV series 'Arrested Development'. Both heats produced close finishes - Andy was beaten by a single point but Pat progressed to the final with fewer passes.

In the final Pat scored 16 points on 'Great Mathematicians' to trail by one point at the halway stage. Adding a further 20 on general knowledge he finished level with Jesse Honey but once again triumphed by virtue of taking no passes.

The Chase

Congratulations to Phil Duffy (Unison) who won £7,500 in June on ITV's 'The Chase'.
Watched by host Bradley Walsh (centre below) and chased by Shaun Wallace, Phil managed to put £8,000 into the pot.

In the final chase he and his surviving partner Angela saw off 'The Chaser' and took home a half share each of the £15,000 prize.

ORMSKIRK CHARITY LEAGUE 2010 - RESULTS

The Don Liptrot Memorial Trophy (Handicap Knockout) 2010

Round 1 Monday April 12

Round 2 Monday April 19 / Plate Round 1

Semi-final Monday April 26 / Plate Semi-final

Final Monday May 17 / Plate Final

Phil Duffy (Unison) qualified for the MIMIR final in May. Click on the link for further details

David Hodgson (Rugby Hounds), Madeline Evans (Unison) and John Wilson (Old Dog) were defeated in the semi-finals.

Norman Green 1935 - 2009   A donation was sent to a prostate cancer charity in his memory

Only Connect

A team called Gamblers which includes Alan Gibbs (Wheatsheaf) won the 3rd series final - broadcast on BBC Four in April 2010

Pointless

Congratulations to Phil and Peter Duffy from Unison who won £12,250 on Wednesday 10th March.
They are pictured below having won the money by correctly guessing that in a survey
no-one would identify the Ridgeway as a designated National Trail.

Mimir 2010 - Ormskirk Heat Wednesday February 24th

15 players from just 5 teams gathered at the Ship Inn near Burscough. A very good venue with a wide choice of real ale and a plentiful supply of sandwiches from the welcoming landlord.
The four first round games reduced the field to 8 players who played 2 extremely close semi-finals which both went to tie breaks.

The final was played using a challenging set of questions written specially by Pat Gibson. Ray Oakes retained the trophy.

The four finalists together with the third placed in each semi-final and Pat Gibson, the holder, now progress to the Merseyside heat on March 24th.

Ormskirk Quiz League Honours 2008-2009

Merseyside Quiz League Honours 2008-2009

Pat Gibson (Old Dog - Ormskirk 1) ended his long wait for his second Mimir win. In the 2009 Mimir final he squeezed past team mate John Wilson after a second play-off round. The 2009 finalists with MQL President Ken Smith (second left) - Dag Griffiths (Southport & Formby 1), John Wilson (Old Dog, Ormskirk 1) and Karl Whelan (Wirral 1)

Mastermind Champion 2005
BBC2 - 8th November
Pat Gibson (Old Dog, Ormskirk League)

Congratulations to Pat Gibson on becoming the 2005 Champion of BBC TV's Mastermind. His specialist subjects were: Round One - Films directed by Quentin Tarantino Semi-Final - 'Culture' Novels of Iain M Banks Final - Father Ted Pat started the series off in convincing style in a very strong heat which included Anthony Martin, formerly of the Ormskirk League. In the semi-final he triumphed with a very impressive score of 35. The final was a closer run thing, after the specialist round Pat was in joint first place with 17 points. He was in the fortunate position of going last in the general knowledge round, knowing that he had a score of 28 to beat. Pictures below:
Top left - unbeknown to Pat he had passed the winning post by correctly answering Prokofiev as the composer of 'Love for Three Oranges' Top right - a moment to savour as John Humphries announced that Pat had scored 31 points Bottom left - the final scores for all six contestants Bottom right - Shaun Wallace, last year's winner, presents the 2005 trophy to Pat, watched by QM John Humphries

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