Domestic Competition
In domestic competitions he played with the Milhous Warriors, the first British team to win the Club competition at the European Quizzing Championships, which comprises Ashman, captain and England international Tim Westcott, Welsh international Sean O'Neill, Eric Kilby, Keith Andrew and Brian Wilkins.
He several times appeared as an aspiring contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? but never qualified for the hot seat.
Mark Bytheway died on 9 July 2010 after a battle with esophageal cancer. As Mark was the reigning British Quiz Champion at the time of his death, the British Quizzing Championship trophy has been named in his honour, and will now be called the Mark Bytheway Trophy - aka the 'M*BY'.
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