Irish Quiz Open 2017

Saturday 30th September 2017 saw the 5th running of the IQO’s annual Irish Open quiz. Over 2 dozen quizzers crammed into the back room of the Addison Lodge in Dublin’s northside to find the best quizzer in Ireland. This year was notable for a couple of reasons: firstly, we didn’t know it at the time but this would be the last event held in the IQO’s favourite venue the Addison Lodge – shortly after this the pub was sold for redevelopment (it was subsequently demolished and is now an apartment block).

Secondly, in addition to the usual cream of Irish quizzing talent we had a couple of special guests over from England for the day – quizzing power couple Oliver Levy and Paul Sinha – the latter particularly well known to TV viewers as “the Sinnerman” on TV quiz The Chase.

And as it turns out, being a professional TV quizzer certainly helps with your quizzing knowledge as Paul emerged triumphant on the day, scoring an impressive 164 out of 240, the highest score in the room, making him the 2017 Irish Quiz Open champion! In a close tussle for second place were previous champions Lorcan Duff and Mark Henry, Lorcan pipping Mark by just a single point, 159 to 158.

Questions

• Part 1 questions
• Part 1 answers
• Part 2 questions
• Part 2 answers

Results

Top 10 Dublin venue results

	Player Name	Art & Culture	Civilisation	Entertainment	Lifestyle	Physical World	Sport & Games	Total
1	Paul Sinha	27	25	25	29	32	26	164
2	Lorcan Duff	28	24	27	29	27	24	159
3	Mark Henry	27	23	24	29	30	25	158
4	David Lea	23	28	21	31	26	25	154
5	Oliver Levy	28	28	27	34	25	10	152
6	Dave McBryan	23	25	19	28	32	20	147
7	Dan O’Malley	20	22	25	27	18	9	121
8	Kevin Jones	25	19	14	21	26	11	116
9	Paddy Duffy	19	15	24	22	18	15	113
10	John Hayes	23	18	13	22	23	10	109

Satellite venues

As always, the IQO offers the Irish Open for free to quiz associations around the world, and this year it was played by 75 players in 16 different venues: mainly in Europe but also the US, Oman, Kuwait, India and Malaysia. The top-scoring overseas player was Ole Martin Halck from Norway with 141 out of 240.

Top 5 Irish scores by genre:

Art & Culture

1. Lorcan Duff / Oliver Levy 28
2. Paul Sinha / Mark Henry 27
3. Kevin Jones 25

Civilisation

1. David Lea / Oliver Levy 28
2. Paul Curtayne 26
3. Paul Sinha / Dave McBryan 25

Entertainment

1. Lorcan Duff / Oliver Levy 27
2. Paul Sinha / Dan O’Malley 25
3. Mark Henry / Paddy Duffy 24

Lifestyle

1. Oliver Levy 34
2. David Lea 31
3. Paul Sinha / Lorcan Duff / Mark Henry 29

Physical World

1. Paul Sinha / Dave McBryan 32
2. Mark Henry 30
3. Lorcan Duff 27
4. David Lea / Kevin Jones 26

Sport & Games

1. Paul Sinha 26
2. Mark Henry / David Lea 25
3. Lorcan Duff 24
4. Dave McBryan 20

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