Welcome to maccql.com

This website replaced the Macclesfield Quiz League blog in 2017. The blog had been operational since 2007.

Macclesfield is a market town in the English county of Cheshire, and its Quiz League has run without a break in the town's public houses on Tuesday nights through the winter since (at least) 1981. The League has been very kindly sponsored for many years by AstraZeneca under their excellent Community Relations programme.

Without the League's serene influence, several hundred people might have no idea which was the longest river wholly in England, how many bones there were in the human body, or who shot Gandhi. Some of us have been taking part for decades, and still don't know ...

On this website you can find the League fixtures, the latest results and tables, questions that have been asked since part–way through the 2016–17 season, and a partial historical archive of results and tables.

More information on the League is available on Nick's Quiz site, which has been a favourite with MQL participants (and indeed many non–participants) for many years. Nick's blog concentrates on the fortunes of one particular team, but also provides a forum for anyone who feels inclined to comment on matters related to MQL. It also holds the questions from several seasons up to and including 2016–17.

Macclesfield Quiz League is always keen to welcome new teams. If you would like to take part, or if you have any other queries about the League, please contact markw@maccql.com.

If you have any comments on the contents of this website, not least regarding any errors that you may spot, please email haydn@maccql.com.

Latest News

The draw for Round 1 of the Cup competition has been made; please click here for details.

The second round of League matches of the 2018–19 season was played on Tuesday 16 October. The questions are available from the Latest Updates menu at the left hand side of this page; the results, tables, News & Views, etc. will be uploaded as soon as they are available.

Archive

The latest updates to the archive were made on Thursday 14 June 2018.

All the information I have for the 2004–5 season and earlier is now on the website. The League's hard–copy archive should hold a complete record from at least the year 1998; what I don't have for these years I will get and upload in due course (but probably not until next summer).

Final tables (League and Individual) are online for every season since 1994–5. Results (and News & Views) for the seasons 2005–6 to 2015–16 are waiting to go online.

For details of what we have and what we don't have, please refer to the Archive Summary page. If anyone has anything from before 2003 that isn't on the website, please let me know!

Thanks to Andy Johnson, Robin Morrell and Tim Findlow who have provided information so far.

Haydn Thompson

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