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Latest revision as of 14:10, 29 March 2026

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

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 {{Individual Header|league=Individual Championships}}
-We are excited to announce the full details of the inaugural OQL Individual Championships!
+{{:World Quiz Championships}}
-The event will take place at venues around the UK on the 25th March 2023. We will aim for each venue to start around 11:30am. The cost will be £10 per person, with the exception of our Dublin venue which will cost €12. Players will have 90 minutes to answer 200 questions and at the end of the day we will crown an overall champion as well as our 8 category champions. Each venue will be provided with a fun team quiz for the afternoon but they are all welcome to provide whatever afternoon entertainment they wish.
+----
-The competition will consist of 25 questions in each of the standard 8 OQL categories with a few minor changes. All questions are being written by OQL legend, Rob Hannah.
+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.
-Art & Culture
+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.
-•	Visual arts (including sculpture, photography, and conceptual art)
+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!
-•	Literature (including theatre)
+Approximate schedule for the day of each quiz is as follows (at some venues times may vary slightly)
-•	Philosophy
+:00 – Arrive
-•	Religion
+:30 – Quiz begins
-•	Mythology
+:15 – Quiz ends, marking begins
-•	Architecture
+:00 – Marking ends – lunch
-•	Classical music (including opera, ballet, and non-Western classical music)
+:00 – Fun team quizzes
-•	Orchestral instruments
+: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.
-TV & Film
+{{Template:Individual Championships - Schedule - Season {{Individual Championships - Season}}}}
-•	Television (including streaming services) (and anime!)
+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.
-•	Film
-•	TV and film awards
+==Categories==
+{{Individual Championships - Categories UK}}
-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.
-There are 14 confirmed venues around the UK. Registration will open next week and will be via our website. Players will select their venue, book themselves on and then transfer the entry fee over to us. Everyone must pay in advance, there will be no payments on the day and we'll need to know numbers in advance for printing and capacity reasons. We will be allowing our proctors to play, there will be rigorous security measures in place to ensure that no one accesses the quiz prior to the event starting. OQL will cover all venue costs so no venue will be more expensive than any other. Here are the 12 venues and the host in charge of each whom you can contact for any venue specific questions
+==Venues==
-Scotland –
-Glasgow - Sir Alex Ferguson Library in Glasgow Caledonian University hosted by Caitlin McCulloch. 20 places available
-Aberdeen - Ma Cameron's Little Belmont St, Aberdeen AB10 1JG hosted by Richard Appleyard. 8 places available
-Wales – Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club in Pontyclun which is around Cardiff. Hosted by Gareth Aubrey . 30 places available
-Northern Ireland – The Pavillion Stormont Estate in Belfast hosted by Bryan Craythorne . 20 places available
-Ireland – Terenure Badminton Centre in Dublin hosted by Dan O'Malley 30 places available
-North West England – Cross Keys pub in Liverpool City Centre hosted by Jon Stitcher and Dave Trent – 45 places available
-North England – Idle Working Mens Club in Bradford hosted by Tony Sissons – 40 places available
-North England – Crookes Social Club in Sheffield hosted by Lewis Jones – 36 Places available
-West Midlands – Bishop Challoner Catholic College in Kings Heath, Birmingham hosted by John Robinson – 25 places available but space for more if demand is there.
-East Midlands – Market Harborough RUFC in Leicestershire hosted by Stuart Beard – 40 places available.
-South East – New Queen Victoria Pub in Milton Keynes hosted by Lauren Hamer – 50 places available
-Home Counties – The Old Barge in Hertford hosted by David Stainer – 22 places available
-Home Counties - Langleybury Cricket Club, Langleybury Lane, Hunton Bridge, Herts. WD4 8RJ hosted by Eddie Gunning - 20 places available
-London – Halley House School in Hackney – hosted by Ronny Jackson 60 Places available - THIS VENUE IS NOW FULL
-Kent - Unicorn Inn, 61 St Dunstan's Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT28BS hosted by Steve Lilley - 40 places available
-If anyone else would like to host a venue then let us know, we'd especially welcome a South Coast venue and/or a South West England venue.
-All venues will be first come first served so get yourselves registered as soon as possible. Registration should open early next week and we will give plenty of warning before we open. The website will also give further details about each venue, such as food, accessibility and whether we'll be displaying the answers on a big screen. Also – if anyone has any special requirements at all please contact Aidan Linge or Jon Stitcher directly to discuss these and we will do everything within our power to accommodate you.
-If you want to know any more please just email us at info@onlinequizleague.com
+:See [[Individual Championships - Venues]]
 [[Category:Individual Championships]]
 [[Category:Individual Tournaments]]