University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Current President or Coach	Joe Terrey
National championships	runners-up in 2022
NAQT Page	link

Edinburgh University Quiz Society was kick-started by American player Nolan Dannels, who studied at Edinburgh, and later attended UCSD. Since 2020, Edinburgh has become a mainstay on the UK Quizbowl circuit.

Edinburgh A, led by Nicholas Winter, Laura Cooper and Ben Russell Jones, won the 2021 mirror of HARI and were runners-up in the 2022 British Student Quiz Championships. Edinburgh's next title came in 2023, when they won the UK mirrors of CREEK+ and ACF Winter. In 2024, Edinburgh fielded 3 teams at the UK's northern mirror of ACF Fall, with Edinburgh A winning the tournament. Subsequently, Edinburgh were represented at 7 more tournaments throughout the 2024/25 academic year, including a 15th place finish at the 2025 British Student Quiz Championships. Comprising Omer Keskin, Ali Hamzeh, Frances Hadley, and Rayhana Amjad, Edinburgh A established itself as a competitive presence on the British circuit in 2026, with second and third place finishes at ACF Regionals and the 2026 British Student Quiz Championships respectively.

Current Players

• David Allen
• Rayhana Amjad
• Daniel Bloom
• Gabrielle Collins
• Liam Daly
• Frances Hadley
• Ali Hamzeh
• Ted Harrison
• James Headon
• Lovel Hearn
• Pen Hughes
• Omer Keskin
• Siddhant Kumar
• Harry Sexton
• Joe Terrey

Former Players

• Ben Russell Jones
• Nicholas Winter
• Parth "The Goat" Jagtap
• Niall Karunaratne
• Caitlin Self
• Matthew Stafford
• Arun Uttamchandani
• David Aiton
• Parthav Easwar
• Laura Cooper
• Nicholas Daines
• Elian Corstanje
• Nolan Dannels
• Innis Carson
• Stanley Wang
• Rachel Galvin
• Max Fitz-James
• Matt Booth
• Robbie Campbell Hewson
• Rishi Sundar
• Emily Luk
• Zak Jeffcoat
• Niamh Clarke
• Daniel Polatajko
• Matthew McGovern
• Leo Howard

Tournaments Won

Year	Tournament	Stats	Team
2021	HARI	[1]	Edinburgh A: Ben Russell Jones, Nicholas Winter, Laura Cooper, Holly Parkinson
2023	CREEK+	[2]	Edinburgh A: Arun Uttamchandani, Joe Terrey, Rayhana Amjad, Frances Hadley
2023	2023 ACF Winter	[3]	Edinburgh A: Ben Russell Jones, James Carrigy, Parth Jagtap, Frances Hadley
2023	British Novice	[4]	Edinburgh Purple: Matthew Stafford, Sam Enright, Sam Meakin
2024	2024 ACF Fall	[5]	Edinburgh A: Daniel Bloom, David Allen, Siddhant Kumar, Lucy Isabella
2025	2025 ACF Fall	[6]	Edinburgh A: Harry Sexton, James Headon, Abbie Isabel
2026	ARCADIA V	[7]	Edinburgh B: Omer Keskin, Letian Li, Ethan Rhoades

Tournaments Hosted

Year	Tournament	Stats	Winning Team	Top Individual Scorer
2019	Scotbowl	[8]	Potato-Bogle Coat-Stealers	Mark Grant
2025	VAULT	[9]	Durham and Edinburgh Brigade	Matteo Fronduti
2026	Winter Novice	[10]	Glasgow A	Alexander Ström
2026	Deep Bench (MRNA V)	[11]	Posterity will ne'er survey / a Nobler neg than this / this name is too long for YF / piss	Ben Russell Jones