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.
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.
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.
Categories
🎨 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.