World Quiz 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