Get your thinking caps on and join fun quiz to raise cash for hospice
TEST your general knowledge and enjoy a laugh at the same time at Marlborough Primary School from 6.45pm on Friday, March 22.
Co-hosts Paul Morrissey and Mark Watson will again be setting the brain teasers to find the top masterminds in Macclesfield.
Paul said: “Our target is always to try to get every team to get more than 50 per cent of the questions right. If we achieve that we think we’ve done pretty well.
“Mark and I are both intimately involved in the Macclesfield quiz league, so we have quite a back catalogue of questions.
“I’ve also got quite a few quiz books and obviously it’s easy to find questions online so we try to make them accessible for people.
“The aim is for teams to have a good time, enjoy themselves and raise money for the Hospice. The questions are mostly general knowledge and we don’t tend to go for specialists rounds.”
The quizzes are a long-standing tradition, raising more than £60,000 for the charity, including £10,500 from virtual quizzes during Covid.
Paul said: “I’ve been involved for more than 20 years. We used to hold them on a Friday night in a marquee set up in the field behind the Hospice for the summer fete.”
Past quiz host Dave Robinson helps with music rounds, with Alison Brammer another long-standing organiser. Nik Kalka runs the bar and helps with technology, while community fundraiser Carley Macey coordinates for the Hospice. Neil Drummond runs the stand-up bingo.
Paul is a vice president of the Hospice where he was a trustee for seven years. He worked for AstraZeneca for more than 30 years before retiring.
He is a member of the Nags Head B quiz team with Mark who runs Macclesfield Quiz League. Mark, a retired Police Inspector, co-ordinates the Cheshire Crime Beat charity and was awarded the MBE for services to community policing.
Paul said: “We’d encourage people to sign up as soon as possible. Teams are usually a minimum of four, though we aim for eight. If two people want to form their own team that’s fine, though we give them the option of joining another team.”
The quiz support group hosts three quizzes each year.
Entry is £10 per head and to sign up visit eastcheshirehospice.org.uk/ events/quiz-night/