Mike is a founding member of a quiz team called "Avengers Disassemble!" [which he named after The Avengers, as he is a big Marvel/ Superhero fan, and "Short Circuit"], which has won many charity quizzes, competitions etc, and which has been Derbyshire/ Nottinghamshire Regional Champions/ Grand Finalists of the Great British Pub Quiz twice, meeting Shaun Wallace, and Mark Labbett, from "The Chase". His strengths are Brain Bogglers/ puzzles/ anagrams/ lateral thinking/ Marvel superhero things, and he can complete a 3x3 Rubik's cube, do origami, do "rubbish magic tricks", and balloon model, all of which he learnt how to do after finding out how much Children's entertainers cost, and used these skills to keep his children entertained, and help at their, and friends', parties.