macquarie trophy

The seventh annual Leasing Industry Great British Pub Quiz, hosted by New Leaf Search, saw 10 teams battle for honours at The Counting House in London recently.

Quizmaster Nathan Hamer, part of the team that writes quiz content for TV shows including The Code, Child Genius and Only Connect, put the 60 guests through their paces, with the winners receiving a New Leaf Search Leasing Industry Great British Pub Quiz 2018 engraved glass award and certificate.

The team in last place received an engraved wooden spoon trophy, a wooden spoon each and a pub quiz book to help improve their performance next year.

Macquarie Corporate & Asset Finance won this year’s top prize, with team captain Garry Pearce, the company’s head of flow credit, saying: “We've been coming to the pub quiz for six years and it is consistently one of the most enjoyable nights we have in the industry. The quiz is always extremely well organised and diverse which means everyone contributes.

“2018 was particularly memorable, as we managed to pip DLL to the title by a single point. This following a string of third place finishes, so it was great to add a new trophy to our new Reading office. We look forward to coming along and attempting to defend our title in 2019.”

Pictured: Winning team and hosts for 2018 at the Leasing Industry Great British Pub Quiz – (l-r) James Callen, Stephen Reidy, Katherine Amin (New Leaf Search), Garry Pearce (team captain), Chris Edmonds, Jon Barrett, Tom Burke, Jane Theobald (New Leaf Search)

New Leaf Search Leasing Industry Great British Pub Quiz - 2018 results

Company nameTeam name% ScoreRank
Macquarie Corporate & Asset Finance The Ball Tamperers 81 1
DLL Group Double Dutch 80 2
Hitachi Capital The Six Hit Squad 79 3
PEAC Finance Probably Every Answer Correct 76 4
BLME We're All a Bunch of Bankers 73 5
ABN Amro Lease The Only Way is Utrecht 71 6
Hampshire Trust Bank Quizzically Challenged 70 7
Societe Generale Equipment Finance Generale Knowledge Champs 69 8
Siemens Financial Services Now You Siemen…Now You Don't 68 9
HPE Financial Services Flexible Alcohol Consumption 54 10

Winners’ Hall of Fame

Macquarie Corporate & Asset Finance The Ball Tamperers 2018
DLL Group Dutch Masterpieces 2017
ABN Amro Lease The Dutch Connection 2016
Hitachi Capital Hitachi Intellectual Capital 2015
Hitachi Capital Hitachi Intellectual Capital 2014
Aldermore Asset Finance George and the Dragons 2013
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank of America's Got Talent 2012