Australian Quiz Champion

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In the late 1940s and 1950s the Australian National Quiz Championships were run and broadcast live by ABC Radio.[1] The quiz was arranged to promote the federal government's security loans for post-war reconstruction.[2]

From 2007 to 2023 the Australian Quiz Championship was run by Quizzing Australia in conjunction with the World Quizzing Championship, with the highest individual Australian scorer named the national champion.

In 2024 Quizzing Australia launched a stand-alone Australian Quiz Championships for the first time.

Winners

Individual

Year Winner
1949[3] I.F. Jones
1950[4] W.G. McDonald
2007[5] David Regal
2008 Trevor Evans
2009 David Vickers
2010 David Regal
2011 Issa Schultz
2012 Ross Evans
2013 Issa Schultz
2014 Issa Schultz
2015 Ross Evans
2016 Issa Schultz
2017 Issa Schultz
2018 Issa Schultz
2019 Ross Evans
2020 Issa Schultz
2021 Issa Schultz
2022[6] Issa Schultz
2023[7] Issa Schultz

Australian Quiz Championships

Year 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third place
2024[8] Issa Schultz Ross Evans Aaran Mohann

Multiple individual titles

  • 11 - Issa Schultz
  • 3 - Ross Evans

Pairs

Year Winners
2012 [5] Issa Schultz and Honza Mikula
2013 Issa Schultz and David Regal
2014 Issa Schultz and Michael Logue
2015 Issa Schultz and Michael Logue
2016 Issa Schultz and Michael Logue
2017 Issa Schultz and Michael Logue
2018 Michael Sanders and Cory Nagel
2019 Brydon Coverdale and Chris Coverdale
2020 Issa Schultz and Michael Logue
2021 Not contested due to COVID-19
2022 Gordon McGregor and Aaran Mohann
2023 Paul Bakker and Jason Taylor

Teams

Year Winners
2015 [5] Geoffrey Gettins, Lindon Johnsson, Graeme Mackie and Gordon McGregor
2016 Leon Derry, Ross Evans, Jim Huxley and Shane Francis
2017 Leon Derry, Ross Evans, Jim Huxley and Shane Francis
2018 Leon Derry, Ross Evans, Jim Huxley and Shane Francis
2019 Phil Denman, Derk de Graaf, Honza Mikula and Andrea Zijlstra
2020 Leon Derry, Ross Evans, Jim Huxley and Shane Francis
2021 Not contested due to COVID-19
2022 Gordon McGregor, David Morgan and Aaran Mohann
2023 David Howse, Beau Howse and Brendan Pigott

External links

References

  1. ^ "Before office - Gough Whitlam - Australia's PMs - Australia's Prime Ministers". National Archives of Australia. Archived from the original on 2019-05-22.
  2. ^ "£70 Million Security Loan". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 March 1946.
  3. ^ "Sydney teacher is new quiz champion". Argus. October 1949.
  4. ^ "Australian National Quiz". Cairns Post. 18 March 1950.
  5. ^ a b c "Quizzing Australia".
  6. ^ "QUEST by Quizzing.com, the Home of Quiz". quest.quizzing.com.
  7. ^ "Results - World Quizzing Championships". www.worldquizzing.com.
  8. ^ "Results - World Quizzing Championships 2023". quizzingaustralia.org. Quizzing Australia. 2024-03-22. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
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