2026 Results

Specialist Subject Quizzes

Here are the 9 qualifier winners and the top 3 in each eliminator.

All qualifier results: https://quizcentral.net/subjects.php?org=oqluk&date=2026-08

Huge thanks to our 9 subject quiz writers, Aaron Linge, Alecto Hardwick, Dave Bill, Katy Marchant, Lauren Hamer, Lewis Jones, Lucy Reynolds, Morgan Bush and Nic Paul. An an extra big thank you also to Rob Hannah for his great work in editing all of these sets and the eliminators.

Ian Aitkenhead, Aidan Linge, Aaron Linge, Lauren Hamer, Ronny Jackson and Sol Craighead-Wheeler hosted these events and we thank them greatly for their assistance.

Pairs SpeedQuiz

Friday evening culminated in our exciting Speed quiz. This was superbly written by Ronny Jackson and hosted by Tony Murphy. We thank them both for their great work

For the third year in a row, our winners were we want our ballers back – Jonathan Gibson & Paddy Pamment

Second place went to PD Hames – Dave McBryan & Patrick Carthy

Third place was taken by spacewang – Alexander Spacey & Dennis Wang

There was a prize for the most fastest buzzes and that was won by hebbo – Seoan Webb and Heather Solomons

Live VIII August 2026

Full results: https://quizcentral.net/championship.php?org=oqluk&date=2026-08

Saturday morning quizzes began with the Live VIII quiz written by Aaron Linge. It was won by Evan Lynch with a score of 205, Jonathan Gibson took 2nd on 203 and Patrick Carthy was 3rd on 189. Full results are available via the link above.

Regions Championship

Full results: https://quizcentral.net/rounds.php?org=oqluk&date=2026-08

After 10 rounds of exciting quizzes, the winners of the Regions Champions were the reiging champions, the Oxfordshire Dons. That incredible team consisted of Alecto Hardwick, Emma Laslett, Tim Hall and Thomas De Bock. Second place went to a team from West Scotland, the Over Educated Delinquents. The team consisted of Innis Carson, Jonathan Gibson Liz Alexander and Rob Sutherland.

There was also a prize for Morley’s Mandem from South London for having the biggest improvement in their score over the second half of the quiz.

It was a fantastic display of quizzing all round, on a fantastic quiz, written by Rob Hannah and beautifully hosted by Lauren Hamer.

Video Quiz

Sunday morning saw Aidan’s highly amusing interactive video quiz which featured the great run of answers Turkey, Turkey, Turkey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AWKfMvDtw), Willy Wacker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V38QlJt4IaE)! Much hilarity and great questions and eventually the winners were 2N2 Knowledge – a combination of N for Knowledge and Talbot 2D from the OQL league. The runners up were Bright Northern Shites, who won a 4 way tiebreaker. Thank you to Aidan for hosting this quiz and to Lauren for assisting him with scoring.

COQL Live

Full results: https://quizcentral.net/coqllive/results.html?thedate=2026-08-02&hour=12&minute=00&venue=Manchester

We then moved on to the COQL Live quiz. A really fun format which is in no way affiliated with Only Connect! After 4 rounds of great connection solving it was RMS Jenever Convention – Hugh Bennett, Phil Small and Lauren Hamer, who triumphed by 5 points This incredible team have now won the competition twice in a row. Their second round performance was incredible, scoring 24 points out of a maximum 30, and spotting three questions for 5 points. In 2nd place were the Ballers, who you may remember from Only Connect where they competed as The Pitchers. The team of Jonathan Gibson, Paddy Pamment and Alexia Jarvis have now come runners up in the COQL Live quiz at all 3 Weekenders!

Our thanks to the writing team of Dave Bill, Will Jones and Rob Hannah, to Rob for also editing the set and to Will, for building the technology that allows COQL Live to work.

Lewis Jones’ Big Pub Quiz

The final quiz of the Weekend was Lewis Jones’ big pub quiz. Such incredibly inventive and creative rounds, and whilst most of us had frazzled brains by this time, the quiz was incredibly good fun. Ultimately the winning team was The 27 Club which consisted of Jonathan Gibson, Barry Simmons, Ollie Garner, Chris Devine and Gary Morewood. They pipped Panic on the Streets of Manchester – Aidan, Daniel Bazeley, Delia Cropper, James Haughton, Jayanthi Srinivasan and Jon Stitcher by 1 point.

Thank you to Lewis for an incredibly fun quiz and to Dave Bill for assisting him with scoring.