The World Quizzing Championship is an individual quiz

Quiz

A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players attempt to answer questions correctly. In some countries, a quiz is also a brief assessment used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.Quizzes are usually scored in points and many...

 contest organised by the International Quizzing Association (the umbrella organisation of various quizzing organisations from more than 25 countries around the world). The competition has been staged annually since 2003 (since 2004 in more than one country simultaneously) with an increasing number of contestants from an increasing number of nations. The reigning champion is Pat Gibson

Pat Gibson

Pat Gibson is an Irish multiple quiz show winner and a panellist on Eggheads.He was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in the European Quizzing Championships since 2005.- Early life and education :Pat was born in Galway in...

, an Irishman living in England, who defended his title.

List of WQC winners

Year	Winner	Runner Up	Third Place
2011	Pat Gibson Pat Gibson Pat Gibson is an Irish multiple quiz show winner and a panellist on Eggheads.He was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in the European Quizzing Championships since 2005.- Early life and education :Pat was born in Galway in...	Kevin Ashman Kevin Ashman Kevin Ashman from Winchester, Hampshire in England is one of the world's most successful quiz players and since 2002 a professional quizzer, an Egghead since 2003...	Tero Kalliolevo Tero Kalliolevo Tero Kalliolevo from Finland is the Nordic countries' most successful quiz player in international competitions....
2010	Pat Gibson	Kevin Ashman	Ronny Swiggers Ronny Swiggers Ronny Swiggers from Mechelen is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players.Swiggers came in 2nd place on two occasions in the World Quizzing Championships, being edged by Mark Bytheway in 2008 and by superstar Kevin Ashman in 2009.In 2008, he has won the European title with the Belgian national...
2009	Kevin Ashman	Ronny Swiggers	Mark Bytheway Mark Bytheway Mark Bytheway was an England International Quiz player best known for becoming Quizzing World Champion in 2008 and winning the Top Brain competition of Brain of Britain.-Brain of Britain:...
2008	Mark Bytheway	Ronny Swiggers	Tero Kalliolevo
2007	Pat Gibson	Kevin Ashman	Mark Bytheway
2006	Kevin Ashman	Pat Gibson	Nico Pattyn Nico Pattyn Nico Pattyn is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players. He became European Quizzing Champion in November 2007, claiming the title in Blackpool. He was the first to beat English quiz legend, Kevin Ashman at the European championships individuals...
2005	Kevin Ashman	Pat Gibson	Nico Pattyn
2004	Kevin Ashman	Pat Gibson	Ashish
2003	Olav Bjortomt Olav Bjortomt Stein Olav Bjortomt is an England international quiz player. He was the winner of the inaugural 2003 individual World Quizzing Championships, in the absence of Kevin Ashman when it was a fledgling event with then only 45 participants...	Pat Gibson	Alan Gibbs

2003

A fledgling event was first staged by Quizzing.co.uk in 2003 at Villa Park

Villa Park, England

Villa Park is an association football stadium in the district of Witton, Birmingham, England with a seating capacity of 42,786. It has been the home of Aston Villa Football Club since 1897. The team previously played at Aston Park from 1874 to 1876 and Perry Barr from 1876 to 1897...

 football stadium, Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. This saw 50 quizzers representing a handful of nations compete in a written test of quiz knowledge. The event has full official status but took only place in one country and sometimes erroneously omitted in statistics (results).

2004

In 2004, following the foundation of the International Quizzing Association (IQA), the event was held simultaneously in 5 countries: the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 (joined by quizzers from elsewhere, including Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

), Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 (joined by quizzers from The Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

), Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and Malaysia. Over 300 quizzers took part. The UK leg was staged at Manchester United's Old Trafford

Old Trafford

Old Trafford commonly refers to two sporting arenas:* Old Trafford, home of Manchester United F.C.* Old Trafford Cricket Ground, home of Lancashire County Cricket ClubOld Trafford can also refer to:...

 football stadium. The winner this year was Kevin Ashman.

1.   Kevin Ashman
2.   Pat Gibson
3.   Ashish
4.   Nico Pattyn
5.   Frank Van Nieuwenhove
6.   Ian Bayley
   Ian Bayley
   Ian Bayley is a UK quiz player who, despite his youth when compared with other leading players , won several medals in quizzing, both in singles and as a member of a team. He is largely known as a strong team player winning the European Championships three times straight from 2007 to 2009 with...
   
   
7.   David Stainer
   David Stainer
   David Stainer is an English quizzer best known for outstanding team playing skills.After studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oriel College, Oxford he works as a solicitor in the City of London....
   
   
8.   Arul Mani
9.   Stephen Pearson
10.   Lauri Naber

2005

The 2005 championship on July 2, saw further significant growth with the event benefiting from the sponsorship of MSN Search. Countries joining the original five competing nations included Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 and Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. Quizzers sat eight papers of 30 questions each, covering different subject matters: 'Culture', 'Entertainment', 'History', 'Lifestyle', 'Media', 'Sciences', 'Sport and Games', and 'World', with the lowest score from the eight genres being dropped - although these did come into play to settle tie-break situations. The eight genres were won outright or shared by quizzers from seven different countries (Belgium, England, Estonia, Finland, India, Ireland, and Norway).

Efforts to encourage the participation of women in the contest (competitive quizzing has hitherto been something of a male-dominated pastime) were rewarded in 2005 with a win for Trine Aalborg of Norway in the 'Lifestyle' category and a sixth place overall for Dorjana Širola

Dorjana Širola

Dorjana Širola is a Croatian quizzer, linguist and anglicist. She was the highest placed woman at the World Quizzing Championship in seven years from 2005 to 2011...

 of Croatia (who also finished 3rd among those competitors who had gathered at Silverstone motor racing circuit for the UK leg of the competition). In India, another woman, Debashree Mitra of Bangalore took 3rd place overall also.

1.   Kevin Ashman
2.   Pat Gibson
3.   Nico Pattyn
4.   Mark Van Springel
5.   Arul Mani
6.   Dorjana Širola
   Dorjana Širola
   Dorjana Širola is a Croatian quizzer, linguist and anglicist. She was the highest placed woman at the World Quizzing Championship in seven years from 2005 to 2011...
   
   
7.   Ove Põder
8.   Lauri Naber
9.   Erik Derycke
   Erik Derycke (quiz player)
   Erik Derycke is a Belgian quiz player best known for his success with the national team and his double gold at the European Quizzing Championships 2007 with his partner Tom Trogh.-Quiz:...
   
   
10.   Ian Bayley

2006

On June 3, 2006 the World Quizzing Championships were held at more than 15 locations. First time organisers were Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland, Liberia and Sri Lanka. People of a multitude of nationalities took part, including representatives from the USA, Australia, Russia, Singapore, Hungary and France. The title was, for the 3rd year running, won by Kevin Ashman.

1.   Kevin Ashman
   Kevin Ashman
   Kevin Ashman from Winchester, Hampshire in England is one of the world's most successful quiz players and since 2002 a professional quizzer, an Egghead since 2003...
   
   
2.   Pat Gibson
   Pat Gibson
   Pat Gibson is an Irish multiple quiz show winner and a panellist on Eggheads.He was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in the European Quizzing Championships since 2005.- Early life and education :Pat was born in Galway in...
   
   
3.   Nico Pattyn
4.   Marc Van Springel
5.   Olav Bjortomt
6.   Ronny Swiggers
7.   Dorjana Širola (highest placed woman)
8.   Mark Bytheway
9.   Erik Derycke
   Erik Derycke (quiz player)
   Erik Derycke is a Belgian quiz player best known for his success with the national team and his double gold at the European Quizzing Championships 2007 with his partner Tom Trogh.-Quiz:...
   
   
10.   Ian Bayley

2007

On June 2, 2007 the World Quizzing Championships was held at locations includinga the Netherlands, the USA and Hungary for the first time. Pat Gibson took the crown from three-time winner Kevin Ashman.

1.   Pat Gibson
   Pat Gibson
   Pat Gibson is an Irish multiple quiz show winner and a panellist on Eggheads.He was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in the European Quizzing Championships since 2005.- Early life and education :Pat was born in Galway in...
   
   
2.   Kevin Ashman
   Kevin Ashman
   Kevin Ashman from Winchester, Hampshire in England is one of the world's most successful quiz players and since 2002 a professional quizzer, an Egghead since 2003...
   
   
3.   Mark Bytheway
   Mark Bytheway
   Mark Bytheway was an England International Quiz player best known for becoming Quizzing World Champion in 2008 and winning the Top Brain competition of Brain of Britain.-Brain of Britain:...
   
   
4.   Olav Bjortomt
   Olav Bjortomt
   Stein Olav Bjortomt is an England international quiz player. He was the winner of the inaugural 2003 individual World Quizzing Championships, in the absence of Kevin Ashman when it was a fledgling event with then only 45 participants...
   
   
5.   Jesse Honey
   Jesse Honey
   Jesse Honey is an English quiz player best known for winning the Mastermind series 2010 and becoming a member of the English National team later in the year.-Life:...
   
   
6.   Ronny Swiggers
7.   Ian Bayley
   Ian Bayley
   Ian Bayley is a UK quiz player who, despite his youth when compared with other leading players , won several medals in quizzing, both in singles and as a member of a team. He is largely known as a strong team player winning the European Championships three times straight from 2007 to 2009 with...
   
   
8.   Mark Grant
9.   Nico Pattyn
10.   Arul Mani

Dorjana Širola of Croatia was the highest placed woman in 12th position. Paul Paquet

Paul Paquet

Paul Stephen Paquet is a nationally syndicated trivia columnist and a trivia writer, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In December 2008, he took over the Trivia Bits column from Stanley Newman. It runs in 14 newspapers throughout the United States...

 from Canada placed highest in the New York City leg, the first time the WQC was held in North America.

2008

The 2008 World Quizzing Championships were held on June 7, 2008 at more than 30 locations, including for the first time Australia, the Philippines, Canada, China, Bangladesh and Latvia.
Mark Bytheway took the world title in a close race with Belgium's Ronny Swiggers

Ronny Swiggers

Ronny Swiggers from Mechelen is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players.Swiggers came in 2nd place on two occasions in the World Quizzing Championships, being edged by Mark Bytheway in 2008 and by superstar Kevin Ashman in 2009.In 2008, he has won the European title with the Belgian national...

 and Finland's Tero Kalliolevo

Tero Kalliolevo

Tero Kalliolevo from Finland is the Nordic countries' most successful quiz player in international competitions....

.

1.   Mark Bytheway – 173
2.   Ronny Swiggers
   Ronny Swiggers
   Ronny Swiggers from Mechelen is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players.Swiggers came in 2nd place on two occasions in the World Quizzing Championships, being edged by Mark Bytheway in 2008 and by superstar Kevin Ashman in 2009.In 2008, he has won the European title with the Belgian national...
   
    – 172
3.   Tero Kalliolevo
   Tero Kalliolevo
   Tero Kalliolevo from Finland is the Nordic countries' most successful quiz player in international competitions....
   
    – 170
4.   Kevin Ashman – 167
5.   Pat Gibson – 165
6.   Nico Pattyn – 163
7.   Olav Bjortomt – 155
8.   Ian Bayley – 154
9.   Jesse Honey
   Jesse Honey
   Jesse Honey is an English quiz player best known for winning the Mastermind series 2010 and becoming a member of the English National team later in the year.-Life:...
   
    – 152
10.   Dorjana Širola – 150 (best performing woman)

2009

The 2009 World Quizzing Championships were held on June 6, 2009 at more than 45 locations, including 10 venues in the US, 9 in India and 4 in Russia.
Living legend Kevin Ashman regained his title and became the first ever to win 4 World Quizzing Championships. Second again was Ronny Swiggers from Belgium. Third was last year's champion Mark Bytheway. Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

 legend Jerome Vered, whose all-time single-day winnings record lasted 10 or 12 years (depnding on whether adjustment for the doubling of the clue values is used), placed eighth.

1.   Kevin Ashman – 177
2.   Ronny Swiggers
   Ronny Swiggers
   Ronny Swiggers from Mechelen is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players.Swiggers came in 2nd place on two occasions in the World Quizzing Championships, being edged by Mark Bytheway in 2008 and by superstar Kevin Ashman in 2009.In 2008, he has won the European title with the Belgian national...
   
    – 174
3.   Mark Bytheway – 166
4.   Olav Bjortomt
   Olav Bjortomt
   Stein Olav Bjortomt is an England international quiz player. He was the winner of the inaugural 2003 individual World Quizzing Championships, in the absence of Kevin Ashman when it was a fledgling event with then only 45 participants...
   
    – 165
5.   Nico Pattyn – 165
6.   Pat Gibson – 164
7.   Tero Kalliolevo
   Tero Kalliolevo
   Tero Kalliolevo from Finland is the Nordic countries' most successful quiz player in international competitions....
   
    – 156
8.   Jerome Vered
   Jerome Vered
   Jerome Vered is a Studio City, California writer, publicly known for his record-setting success as a contestant on the U.S. television game show Jeopardy!-Biography:...
   
    – 155
9.   Jesse Honey – 152
10.   Thomas Kolasaeter – 148

Dorjana Širola of Croatia was the highest placed woman in 22nd position with 135 points.

2010

The 2010 World Quizzing Championships were held on June 5, 2010 at almost seventy locations, adding Armenia, Bulgaria, Morocco and the Republic of Ireland for the first time. Over 1200 people participated. Five nations were represented among the competitors placed in the top 10 overall. The overall winner was Pat Gibson.

Individual (Top 30, 1175 in total)
Pos	Name	Country	Score
1	Pat Gibson Pat Gibson Pat Gibson is an Irish multiple quiz show winner and a panellist on Eggheads.He was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in the European Quizzing Championships since 2005.- Early life and education :Pat was born in Galway in...	Republic of Ireland	180
2	Kevin Ashman Kevin Ashman Kevin Ashman from Winchester, Hampshire in England is one of the world's most successful quiz players and since 2002 a professional quizzer, an Egghead since 2003...	Kingdom of England	169
3	Ronny Swiggers Ronny Swiggers Ronny Swiggers from Mechelen is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players.Swiggers came in 2nd place on two occasions in the World Quizzing Championships, being edged by Mark Bytheway in 2008 and by superstar Kevin Ashman in 2009.In 2008, he has won the European title with the Belgian national...	Belgium	169
4	Tero Kalliolevo Tero Kalliolevo Tero Kalliolevo from Finland is the Nordic countries' most successful quiz player in international competitions....	Finland	166
5	Olav Bjortomt Olav Bjortomt Stein Olav Bjortomt is an England international quiz player. He was the winner of the inaugural 2003 individual World Quizzing Championships, in the absence of Kevin Ashman when it was a fledgling event with then only 45 participants...	Kingdom of England	165
6	Nico Pattyn Nico Pattyn Nico Pattyn is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players. He became European Quizzing Champion in November 2007, claiming the title in Blackpool. He was the first to beat English quiz legend, Kevin Ashman at the European championships individuals...	Belgium	151
7	Mark Grant	Wales	149
8	Thomas Kolåsæter	Norway	147
9	Erik Derycke Erik Derycke (quiz player) Erik Derycke is a Belgian quiz player best known for his success with the national team and his double gold at the European Quizzing Championships 2007 with his partner Tom Trogh.-Quiz:...	Belgium	147
10	David Beck	Belgium	146
11	Tom Trogh Tom Trogh Tom Trogh is a Belgian quiz player who has won several international titles with the national team of quizzing powerhouse Belgium. He has established himself as the third best player of his country behind Ronny Swiggers and Nico Pattyn...	Belgium	145
12	Ove Põder	Estonia	144
13	William De'Ath	Kingdom of England	143
14	Bernard Kreps	Belgium	143
15	Scott Dawson	Kingdom of England	143
16	Ian Bayley Ian Bayley Ian Bayley is a UK quiz player who, despite his youth when compared with other leading players , won several medals in quizzing, both in singles and as a member of a team. He is largely known as a strong team player winning the European Championships three times straight from 2007 to 2009 with...	Kingdom of England	141
17	Dorjana Širola Dorjana Širola Dorjana Širola is a Croatian quizzer, linguist and anglicist. She was the highest placed woman at the World Quizzing Championship in seven years from 2005 to 2011...	Independent State of Croatia	140
18	Harald Aastorp	Norway	139
19	Steve Perry	United States	139
20	David Stainer David Stainer David Stainer is an English quizzer best known for outstanding team playing skills.After studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oriel College, Oxford he works as a solicitor in the City of London....	Kingdom of England	137
21	Tore Dahl	Norway	136
22	Marnix Baes	Belgium	136
23	Barry Simmons Barry Simmons Barry Simmons was the winner of the BBC Two show Are You an Egghead? and as a result became the sixth Egghead, joining Kevin Ashman, C. J...	Kingdom of Scotland	135
24	Holger Waldenberger	Germany	135
25	Paul Arts	Belgium	134
26	Jussi Suvanto	Finland	134
27	Jerome Vered Jerome Vered Jerome Vered is a Studio City, California writer, publicly known for his record-setting success as a contestant on the U.S. television game show Jeopardy!-Biography:...	United States	133
28	Frank van Nieuwenhoven	Belgium	132
29	Derk de Graaf	Netherlands	131
30	Jamie Dodding	Kingdom of England	129
Nation (Ranked by highest placed team member)
Pos	Country	Highest placed team member	Score
1	Republic of Ireland	1 - Pat Gibson Pat Gibson Pat Gibson is an Irish multiple quiz show winner and a panellist on Eggheads.He was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in the European Quizzing Championships since 2005.- Early life and education :Pat was born in Galway in...	180
2	Belgium	3 - Ronny Swiggers Ronny Swiggers Ronny Swiggers from Mechelen is one of Belgium's most successful quiz players.Swiggers came in 2nd place on two occasions in the World Quizzing Championships, being edged by Mark Bytheway in 2008 and by superstar Kevin Ashman in 2009.In 2008, he has won the European title with the Belgian national...	169
3	Finland	4 - Tero Kalliolevo Tero Kalliolevo Tero Kalliolevo from Finland is the Nordic countries' most successful quiz player in international competitions....	166
4	Wales	7 - Mark Grant	149
5	Norway	8 - Thomas Kolåsæter	147
6	Estonia	12 - Ove Põder	144
7	Independent State of Croatia	17 - Dorjana Širola	140
8	United States	19 - Steve Perry	139
9	Kingdom of Scotland	23 - Barry Simmons Barry Simmons Barry Simmons was the winner of the BBC Two show Are You an Egghead? and as a result became the sixth Egghead, joining Kevin Ashman, C. J...	135
10	Germany	24 - Holger Waldenberger	135
11	Netherlands	29 - Derk de Graaf	131
12	India	38 - Arul Mani	127
13	Republic of Ireland	46 - Paul Culoty	123
14	Canada	71 - Paul Paquet Paul Paquet Paul Stephen Paquet is a nationally syndicated trivia columnist and a trivia writer, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In December 2008, he took over the Trivia Bits column from Stanley Newman. It runs in 14 newspapers throughout the United States...	114
15	Hungary	82 - Balázs Greff	110
16	Kingdom of Bulgaria	96 - Plamen Mladenov	106
17	Switzerland	111 - Peter Onyisi	102
18	Australia	116 - David Regal	101
19	Russia	120 - Alexey Prokhin	100
20	Philippines	122 - Leonardo Gapol	100
21	Singapore	127 - Caleb Liu	98
22	Latvia	129 - Krainov Maxim	98
23	Serbia	171 - Omer Ekic	92
24	Early Modern France	197 - Didier Bruyere	88
25	Armenia	270 - Aram Harutyunyan	80
26	Northern Ireland	276 - Richard Ronaldson	79
27	Bangladesh	387 - Redwan Bin Abdul Baten	68
28	Republic of Macedonia	468 - Zoran Jordanov	61

Dorjana Širola of Croatia was the highest placed woman in 17th position with 140 points.

2011

The 2011 World Quizzing Championships took place on Saturday June 4th with the planned addition of venues in Denmark, Gibraltar, and Madagascar

Reigning champion Pat Gibson achieved the highest score in England with 186 and looks set to retain his title. Four times champion Kevin Ashman made 176. Tero Kalliolevo achieved the highest score in Finland with 176. Ronny Swiggers achieved the highest score in Belgium with 168. Steve Perry achieved the highest score in USA with 164. Mark Grant achieved the highest score in Wales with 163. Thomas Kolåsæter achieved the highest score in Norway with 158.

• Eric Smith achieved the highest score in Canada with 157.
• Holger Waldenberger achieved the highest score in Germany with 152.
• Paul Lujan achieved the highest score in Switzerland with 150.
• Ove Põder achieved the highest score in Estonia with 149.
• Dorjana Sirola achieved the highest score in Croatia with 148 and is currently the highest placed woman in the world.
• Derk de Graaf achieved the highest score in the Netherlands with 141.
• Arul Mani achieved the highest score in India with 141.
• Paul Culloty achieved the highest score in the Irish Republic with 141.
• Anne Hegarty achieved the highest score in Scotland with 141.
• Didier Bruyere achieved the highest score in France with 136.
• Oleg Tarasenko achieved the highest score in Ukraine with 131.
• Plamen Petrov Mladenov achieved the highest score in Bulgaria with 124.
• Maxim Krainov achieved the highest score in Latvia with 119.
• Issa Schultz achieved the highest score in Australia with 118.
• Omer Ekić achieved the highest score in Serbia with 116.
• Caleb Liu achieved the highest score in Singapore with 111.
• Movin Miranda achieved the highest score in Malaysia with 110.
• Nikhil Soneja achieved the highest score in the United Arab Emirates with 106.
• Gábor Hacsek achieved the highest score in Hungary with 105.
• Egor Timoshenko achieved the highest score in Russia with 97.
• John Porcella achieved the highest score in Italy with 95.
• Haren Fernando achieved the highest score in Sri Lanka with 95.
• Aidas Puklevičius achieved highest score in Lithuania with 91.
• Colin Kidd achieved highest score in Northern Ireland with 89.
• Pavel Solakhyan achieved the highest score in Armenia with 86.
• Aleksandr Vedehhin achieved the highest score in Czech Republic with 73.
• Zoran Jordanov achieved the highest score in Macedonia with 72.
• Frederik Leung Shun achieved the highest score in Taiwan with 54.
• Jennifer Dikes achieved the highest score for an American woman with 128.

Format

The World Quizzing Championships are in the form of a written test taken by individuals that is conducted at various points around the globe. Each competitor faces the same questions (translated into their mother tongue in many cases) at approximately the same time. There are 240 questions, divided into eight categories, and two hours in which to answer
them (during one hour halves with a break in between). At the end of the allotted time, the papers are marked and each quizzers' top seven category scores will be added together to find the winner.

The categories [and general content areas] are a combination of academic and popular culture topics including:

• Culture [Architecture, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Museums, Religion, Mythology]
• Entertainment [Music (Classical, Blues, Film Score, Jazz, Rock, World), Ballet, Musicals and Operas, Radio, Television]
• History [(<450AD),(450-1492),(1492-1900),(1900-date), Current Affairs, Explorations, Famous People, Civilizations]
• Lifestyle [Costume, Design, Fashion, Food & Drink, Handicrafts, Health & Fitness,Human Body, New Age Beliefs, Products & Brands, Tourism]
• Media [Movies [(1900-1980), (1980-2000)], (recent), Literature [(<1900),(1900-1980),(recent)], Poetry, Drama, Comics, Language]
• Science [Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Social Sciences, Fauna, Flora]
• Sport [Track and Field, Team Sports, Motor Sports, Winter Sports, Games, Hobbies & Pastimes, Records]
• World [Geography, Cities, Space, Technology, Transport, Inventions]

External links

• World Quizzing Championships 2007: Results
• World Quizzing Championships 2006: Results
• World Quizzing Championships 2005: Results
• World Quizzing Championships 2004: Results
• IQA Belgium with full results previous World and European Championships
• IQA Great Britain
• IQA United States
• SQON/IQA Netherlands
• IQA Norway - all WQC results
• World Quizzing Championship in Lithuania - information, results, photos