British Quiz Championship

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The 'British Quiz Championship, also termed the British Quizzing Championship was run in 2004 as part of the World Quizzing Championship - as staged at various world-wide locations, such as Old Trafford Stadium on July 3, 2004), is the United Kingdom's most prestigious (non-TV based) quiz competition. In 2005 it was run on August 27, the World event having been staged on 2 July.

The 2004 event saw 67 entrants at Old Trafford who were joined, in the international event, by several hundred other Quizzers from countries such as Belgium, Estonia, the Netherlands, India and Malaysia quizzing in places such as Bangalore and Kuala Lumpur.

Both the 2004 British and World events were won by England's Kevin Ashman. The competition(s) were arranged by the International Quizzing Association (IQA) and quizzing.co.uk. Having won the 2005 MSN Search sponsored World Quizzing Championships on 2 July Ashman went on to retain his British title later that year. He again won both titles in 2006 but in 2007 lost them both to Pat Gibson, albeit he was unable to defend his British title owing to being out of the country at the time the (long publicised) event was run.