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. A 2008 interview, after winning the World title, is available on the Norwegian Quiz Association website.
In 2008 he won the prestigious title of Quizzing World Champion. He has been capped six times for the National team (with five wins) and has a current European/World ranking of number 3, behind Kevin Ashman (his pairs partner) and Pat Gibson. In 2009 he was third in the World Quizzing Championships and won the British title for the first time. He was unable to attend the 2010 World Quizzing Championships due to serious illness. Bytheway was one of the original British Quizzing Grandmasters (as created under the Order of Merit maintained by Quizzingcouk) and has the third largest haul of international medals, with 16, (5 gold, 6 silver and 5 Bronze) after Ashman (27) and Gibson (24).
