Individual Championships

Congratulations to Daoud Jackson
OQL World Quiz Champion 2026

Over 500 players from over 20 different countries participated and you can see the full results at: https://quizcentral.net/championship.php?org=oqluk&date=2026-03

We wanted to say a big thank you to all the proctors across our 70 venues worldwide for giving up their time to organise the quiz for our players. We also want to say a huge thank you to all our writers and the editing team of Hugh Bennett and Rob Hannah for putting together such an enjoyable and interesting World Quiz Championships.

If you have enjoyed the international nature of the OQL World Quiz Championships, we would heartily recommend you look at participating in the International Culture Challenge. This is an individual quiz using the Mimir format, which focuses solely on the more academic and cultural side of quiz and is targeted at a truly international audience. The competition starts on 25th May and you can read full details and register via our website at:

https://quizcentral.net/qc/International_Culture_Challenge

Overall top 10

🥇 Daoud Jackson – 211

🥈 Evan Lynch – 211

🥉 Jonathan Gibson – 205

4: Jack Pollock – 204

5: Pat Gibson – 201

6: Brian Craythorne – 200

7: Adam Hancock – 199

8: David Plotkin – 198

9: Dan Burgess – 197

10: Issa Schultz – 196

Medallists

Art and Culture

🥇 Tracy Mirkin - 29

🥈 Lovro Jurišić- 29

🥉 Evan Lynch - 28

Film and TV

🥇 Evan Lynch - 29

🥈 Jack Bennett - 29

🥉 Dan Burgess - 29

Geography

🥇 Raghuveer Mukkamalla - 27

🥈 Ross Evans - 27

🥉 Pat Gibson - 26

History

🥇 Evan Lynch - 27

🥈 Tracy Mirkin - 27

🥉 Dennis Wang - 26

Lifestyle

🥇 Daoud Jackson -27

🥈 Jonathan Gibson - 27

🥉 David Stainer - 27

Pop Culture

🥇 David Plotkin - 26

🥈 Adam Hancock - 26

🥉 Daoud Jackson - 25

Science

🥇 Andrew Ullsperger - 29

🥈 Daoud Jackson - 28

🥉 Jonathan Gibson - 28

Sport

🥇 Daoud Jackson - 26

🥈 Brian Craythorne - 26

🥉 Piyush Singh - 26

Welcome to the page for OQL Live VIII! A series of individual written quizzes taking places at venues across the country on 8 months of the year. Here you can see the full schedule for the year and register for the upcoming event or register for all remaining events in a calendar year to receive a discount.

Entry fee for each event is just £14 and for that you will get a full day of quizzing fun, the expected schedule for each event is listed below.

If attending your first ever event you'll pay the discounted entry fee of just £1 so everyone will have the opportunity to give Live VIII a try for just £1!

Approximate schedule for the day of each quiz is as follows (at some venues times may vary slightly)

11:00 – Arrive

11:30 – Quiz begins

13:15 – Quiz ends, marking begins

14:00 – Marking ends – lunch

15:00 – Fun team quizzes

17:00 – Expected finish time but some venues may continue quizzing later.

There are 8 events across the year and here is the full schedule and who will be writing the quizzes for those events.

Jan 31st - written by Andrew Frazer

Feb 28th - written by Alexia Jarvis and Danny Lardner

March 28th - OQL World Quiz Championships - an international set written by a team of writers and to be played all around the world

June 27th - written by Danny McMillan

August 1st - written by Aaron Linge (OQL Weekender event)

September 26th - written by Simon Koppel and Helen Lippell

October 31st - written by Mick Conroy (Best of British set)

December 12th - written by Alecto Hardwick

The categories are the standard 8 OQL categories with a few minor changes. All questions will be written by Aidan Linge and edited by Rob Hannah and you can see the category distribution below.

🎨 Art & Culture

Visual arts (including sculpture, photography, and conceptual art)
Literature (including theatre)
Philosophy
Religion
Mythology
Architecture
Classical music (including opera, ballet, and non-Western classical music)
Orchestral instruments

📹 Film & TV

Television (including streaming services) (and anime!)
Film
TV and film awards

🌍 Geography

Human geography
Physical geography
Sociology
Psychology
Anthropology
Economics
Finance
Language and linguistics

📜 History

History
Politics
Current events and news
Exploration

🍳 Lifestyle

Food and drink
Products and brands (including advertising and retail)
Health and fitness (medicine brands, etc. go here but medical science goes in Science)
Social issues (including queer theory, race theory, and feminist theory)
Handicrafts
Hobbies and pastimes
Fashion and clothing
Social media and the internet
Newspapers and (non-pop culture) magazines
New Age lifestyle (including alternative medicine)
Celebrity lifestyle (including gossip)

🎶 Pop Culture

Pop music (including rock, blues, metal, and non-Western pop music, etc.)
Jazz
Musical theatre
Podcasts
Radio
Video games
Board games (except chess) and card games
Comic books, cartoons, and manga
Pop culture magazines and publications

🥼 Science

Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Human anatomy and medical science
Nature (including zoology and botany, etc.)
Astronomy
Earth sciences (including geology, climatology, meteorology, etc.)
Mathematics
Computer science
Science history

🏅 Sport

Sport (including chess)

Each category will have a nearest the bull tie-breaker and there will be an overall tie-breaker as well.

Venues

See Individual Championships - Venues