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Welcome to maccql.com

Macclesfield Quiz League is an annual General Knowledge competition that's been held throughout the winter months in and around the market town of Macclesfield, in the English county of Cheshire, since at least 1982. On this website you can find all the latest results and League tables, a historical archive of past results and tables, and all the questions that we've set to challenge each other in the past few years (with answers, obviously).

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

Latest News

On Tuesday 19 November we played Week 4 of the 2024–5 season, when all eight B League teams played. The questions were set by Queens of the Castle. All results are now in, and are available from the Latest Updates menu on the left hand side of this page. Questions, tables, News & Views will follow as soon as possible.

Next week (Tuesday 26 November) is the First Round of the Cup. All sixteen League teams will be playing, and the questions will be set by a team of external quizzers. One or other team from each match is asked to provide a question master; please let Mark know (as soon as possible) who will be presiding in your match. There is a link to the draw in the Upcoming Fixtures section on the left hand side of this page.

The questions from Week 2 (Tuesday 12 November) are now available from the Latest Updates menu.

MQL Forum

The verdict on this week's questions (so far) seems to be "hard but fair". What did you think of them?

If you're having any problems with the Forum at all – registering, logging in, posting, whatever – please have a look at the User Guide. If that doesn't help, email haydn@maccql.com, or phone (someone you know will have my number!).

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If you have any comments on the content of this website, please contact haydn@maccql.com.

If you have any questions, or anything to say, about Macclesfield Quiz League – particularly if you'd like to take part! – please contact markw@maccql.com

Archive

The Archive section of the website is now complete, in the sense that all the historical material we have is there. But there are gaps; if you can fill any of them in, please get in touch!

Essentially, we have a complete record from 1999 onwards (thanks to the diligent record–keeping of Mark Watson). We have a good coverage of fixtures and results from the early 90s, but there are some gaps in the latter years of that decade. We have tables (League and Individual) as far back as the mid–80s, and Question Setters' Trophy details from 1992–3.

We have very little material relating to the first four or five years of the League's history (the early–to–mid 1980s), and sadly it now seems unlikely that we will come across much more from that era. But things do come to light from time to time; the latest addition was a number of newspaper cuttings sent in by Lesley Bailey during the 2023–4 season, which included League tables from 1982–3. These are now the earliest we have – click here for a News & Views special.

At the risk of repeating myself: if you happen to come across any information – of any kind – that isn't currently on the website, please let us know!

For details of what we have and what we don't have, please refer to the Archive Summary.

Haydn Thompson

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