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ABOUT THE STOCKPORT QUIZ LEAGUE |
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The Quiz League |
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The
Stockport Quiz League started in 1984 and currently has nine teams. Matches
are played on Thursday evenings. The season begins around mid-September with
an AGM/Registration Meeting and typically finishes in early May. There are
three main competitions every season: the League competition, the Dave Badley Cup, and the Plate. |
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knockout competitions (Dave Badley Cup and Plate) are played on selected
dates throughout the season and use a slightly different format to league
matches. The Plate is a repêchage competition for first-round losers in the Dave Badley
Cup. In both the Dave Badley Cup and the Plate teams are
handicapped according to their average score in league matches in the
previous season. |
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Two
additional competitions are held in conjunction with the Withington Quiz League:
the WIST Trophy is a friendly curtain-raiser to the new quiz season,
played in late September/early October between representative teams from the
two leagues. The WIST Champions Cup is contested by teams that
finished in the top four of their respective league in the previous season. |
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A Christmas table quiz for all teams is held in
December and at the end of the season there is a table quiz followed by
presentation of trophies. Both these table quizzes are handicapped and guest
teams are very welcome (but not eligible to win trophies). |
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Each team pays an annual subscription fee (£40 in 2025–2026) to cover administrative costs. |
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Teams |
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The league covers the whole of the Stockport area, with some teams playing in or near the town centre and others slightly further afield, in places such as Heald Green, Heaton Moor and Edgeley. |
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The Quiz |
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Matches take place on Thursdays, starting at 8.45 p.m. and finishing by around 10.30 p.m. |
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Teams have a maximum of six players and the home team must also provide someone to ask the questions (the ‘QM’). |
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Pubs should set aside a room or quieter area for the
quiz. After the quiz it’s customary (but not compulsory) for the home team
to provide food, usually sandwiches. |
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In the league competitions each team plays every other
team twice. The questions for each week’s matches are set by a team without
a fixture on that date. |
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Each quiz has four rounds. All questions are answered
collectively as a team; there are no individually answered questions. Teams
must answer within a thirty-second time limit. Round 1 consists of
thirty questions which are asked to either team alternately and answered
verbally. Teams score two points for a correct answer to their own
question. If a team fails to answer, the question is asked to the other
team, who score one point for a correct answer. Questions are paired, so
both teams should get a question of similar difficulty on the same
subject. Round 2 consists of ten questions, for which both teams provide written
answers. If both teams answer correctly they score one point each, if only
one of the teams gets a question right they score two points. At the end of
Round 2 there is a half-time ‘comfort break’ of 5-10 minutes. Rounds 3 and 4
use the same format as Rounds 1 and 2. Spare questions are used to replace
any questions that are illegible or obviously incorrect – if agreed by both
teams. |
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Both knockout competitions follow a similar format to league matches, with one significant difference: the questions in Rounds 1 and 3 are not paired and teams pick questions at random. |
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Past questions can be found on the homepage and the complete rules for the league are here. |
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To join the league–either as a new team or as a new player for an existing team– please get in touch with any member of the committee. |
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