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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.

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.

January 25th - written by Ronny Jackson

February 22nd - written by Lewis Jones and Katy Marchant

March 29th - OQL World Championships - an international set written by a team of writers and to be played all around the world

June 28th - written by Paul Sinha and Oliver Levy

August 2nd - written by Aaron Linge and to form part of the British Quiz Weekender

September 27th - written by Aidan Linge

October 25th - written by Lauren Hamer

December 13th - written by Hugh Bennett

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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-We are excited to announce the full details of the inaugural OQL Individual Championships!
+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.
-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.
+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.
-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.
+Approximate schedule for the day of each quiz is as follows (at some venues times may vary slightly)
-Art and Literature – this will include all culture and classical music/ballet will be moved here.
+:00 – Arrive
-Television and Film – This category will include TV and Film from all genres and eras.
-Geography – Much like OQL geography this round will include many social sciences as well as human and physical geography and “atlas offal”
-History – Again, much like the OQL history category, this round will cover all history, current events, politics and a few other areas such as law.
-Lifestyle – This is the general lifestyle category which covers things such as fashion, celebs, food and drink, fitness, alternative medicines and more.
-Other pop culture – This is where you'll find pop music questions which will make up about 50% of this round, the rest will be other forms of popular entertainment such as computer games, board games, podcasts, radio, anime, comics and the like.
-Science – This will be a pure science round covering all areas of science, nature and the universe.
-Sport – This will just be pure sport, all other aspects of the normal OQL sport round have been moved to other pop culture so it will just be sport sport sport.
-Each category will have a nearest the bull tie-breaker and there will be an overall tie-breaker as well.
+:30 – Quiz begins
-There are 12 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
+:15 – Quiz ends, marking begins
-Scotland – Sir Alex Ferguson Library in Glasgow Caledonian University hosted by Caitlin McCulloch. 20 places available
+:00 – Marking ends – lunch
-Wales – Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club in Pontyclun which is around Cardiff. Hosted by Gareth Aubrey . 30 places available
+:00 – Fun team quizzes
-Northern Ireland – The Pavillion Stormont Estate in Belfast hosted by Bryan Craythorne . 20 places available
+:00 – Expected finish time but some venues may continue quizzing later.
-Ireland – Terenure Badminton Centre in Dublin hosted by Dan O'Malley 30 places available
+There are 8 events across the year and here is the full schedule and who will be writing the quizzes for those events.
-North West England – Cross Keys pub in Liverpool City Centre hosted by Jon Stitcher and Dave Trent – 45 places available
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-North England – Idle Working Mens Club in Bradford hosted by Tony Sissons – 40 places available
+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.
-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.
+==Categories==
+{{Individual Championships - Categories UK}}
-East Midlands – Market Harborough RUFC in Leicestershire hosted by Stuart Beard – 40 places available.
+Each category will have a nearest the bull tie-breaker and there will be an overall tie-breaker as well.
-South East – New Queen Victoria Pub in Milton Keynes hosted by Lauren Hamer – 50 places available
+==Venues==
-Home Counties – The Old Barge in Hertford hosted by David Stainer – 22 places available
+:See [[Individual Championships - Venues]]
-London – Halley House School in Hackney – hosted by Ronny Jackson 60 Places available
+[[Category:Individual Championships]]
+[[Category:Individual Tournaments]]
-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