Queen Mary, University Of London

London

Queen Mary on University Challenge

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Reply 20

boromir9111

Original post by infernalcradle

TSR team anyone?

Now, this would be something to see :biggrin:

Queen Mary, University Of London

London

Reply 21

WhatIsAUsername?

Original post by xXWolfeXx

Problem solved! Turns out QM have been banned from University Challenge for 10 years after having a fight with the LSE. They are now allowed to participate...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170098939689838

Now that is something that I did not know. Can't believe people would actually start a fight over a quiz.

Reply 22

Locke54

To be fair the LSE are a bunch of dicks.

Reply 23

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

I'm there

Or be cheeky and try enter a Barts team :tongue:

Reply 24

hollywoodbudgie

Original post by JordanCarroll

I'm there

Or be cheeky and try enter a Barts team :tongue:

What time is it on again? 7:30 at Drapers?

Reply 25

linkaneo

*******S.
You know what. I'm in first year and I've been onto our Student's Union since OCTOBER about forming a team. Dominic Bell told me we didn't have a team so I kept telling him I'd organise a group so we can do it.
Now I find out we had trials and I wasn't told?
What the ****....?
This has been my aim since I was six years old. I can't beleive this. I'm going to go and have some serious words with that kid.

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Reply 26

Locke54

Original post by linkaneo

No one was told per say, there was just a facebook group with the information that was spread around. You don't expect our Student Union to be useful? oh no they'd rather spend time formulating plans for their public support of a socialist federal republic of Great Britain and Ireland (true facts).

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Reply 27

linkaneo

Original post by ajp100688

You don't expect our Student Union to be useful? oh no they'd rather spend time formulating plans for their public support of a socialist federal republic of Great Britain and Ireland (true facts).

I'm so pissed off. I just went over there and the guy I've been after was SURPRISE not there again. I've mailed the president. I wish they'd sent out an email. It's not like it'd be that hard. It's a one-shot opportunity for crying out loud! =( Were you there? what happened?

Reply 28

WhatIsAUsername?

Original post by linkaneo

It's a shame that you missed it, but, if you're interested, here are the questions they asked:

1) Which common English word has a plural that is 60% longer in terms of the number of its letters than its singular, and means ‘a very young person’?

2) ‘Dvorak and ‘Azerty’ are types of what electronic device?

3) What is the name of the mineral form of Aluminium oxide? It is naturally clear, but with the presence of impurities may be called a ruby or sapphire, and has a hardness of 9 on the MOHS scale?

4) Which scientist’s surname is given to the derived unit of force?

5) What member of the crow family was used in a paradox by the German logician Carl Hemple to illustrate a problem where the logic of induction seems to fly in the face of intuition?

6) Produced by India’s biggest indigenous vehicle-maker, TATA motors, the world’s cheapest production car has been given what name? from the prefix for ‘one billionth’?

7) Which Shakespeare’s tragic heroes says of himself that he ‘does murder sleep’?

8) What five-letter surname is shared by the authors of ‘the day of the scorpion’, the voyage of discovery’ and ‘the heart of midlothian’?

9) Which vegetable of genus allium appears in Roget’s Thesaurus under the heading ‘layer’ as part of an expression that follows ‘lamination’, ‘foliation’, and ‘scaliness’?

10) Along with Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth, what common element makes up group 15 of the periodic table?

11) What award links the U.S Presidents Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, and Jimmy Carter in 2002?

12) Under various names, the P.R.I held power in which Latin American country from 1929 to 2000, when Vicente Fox was elected President?

13) After the U.S Secretary of state from 1861, ‘Seward’s Folly’ and ‘Seward’s Icebox were names given to which present-day state, perceived to be useless following it’s purchase from Russia in 7.2 million dollars in 1867?

14) Lobamba is the legislative and Royal capital of which country in South-Eastern Africa?

15) What single initial letter links the narrator of ‘three men in a boat’ with T.S Eliot’s ‘Prufrock’?

16) Which Scottish King is reputed to have been beheaded on a stone near Cairnbeathie, having lost the battle of Lumphanan in 1057?

17) The common striped and rather hooded are two species of which mammal of the Genus Mephitis, found in North and South America and also know there as the Polecat?

18) Which region of north West India and Pakistan has a name meaning ‘five waters or rivers’ for the five tributaries of the Indus that traverse it?

19) Which Chess Champion who dies aged 46, in 2001, was the first British-born player to be awarded the title of Grandmaster?

20) A means of obtaining Genomic D>N>A for Chromosomal and other Examinations, a Buccal Smear takes cells from which part of the body?

21) What two-word term describes that branch of probability theory that has it origins in Claude Elwood Shannon’s 1948 paper ‘A mathematical Theory of communication?

22) The flag of which North African state features a green device sometimes known as ‘Solomon’s Seal’ on a Red background?

23) The Bermuda Bowl and the Venice Cup are international trophies awarded biennially to the winning teams of men and women respectively of which game?

24) What surname is shared by the composer of ‘Der Freischutz’ and ‘Euryanthe’ and the author of ‘The Protestant Ethic and the spirit of Capitalism?

25) Listen carefully. What everyday word is formed by letters whose names are homophones of words meaning ‘to stand in line’, ‘female sheep’, ‘organ of sight’ and ‘drink whose varieties include Darjeeling and oolong’s’?

26) The orthodox feast known as ‘The Dormition of the Theotokos’ corresponds to what feast in western Church, held in mid-August?

27) The name of which Mustelid is used colloquially of words that seek to deprive a statement of its force, or to evade a direct commitment?

28) In a current British hallmark on an item of gold, Silver or Platinum, the assay office is indicated by a symbol: a castle for Edinburgh, a rose for Sheffield, a leopard for London and what for Birmingham?

29) The Knickerbockers, Giants, Jets, islanders, Rangers, Mets and Yankees are all professional sports teams in which U.S city?

30) The Greek for ‘Wanderer’ is the origin of the term for which general type of celestial body?

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Reply 29

linkaneo

I know the answer to most of those questions. Seriously. aaaaaaaaah! =(

Reply 30

WhatIsAUsername?

Original post by linkaneo

I know the answer to most of those questions. Seriously. aaaaaaaaah! =(

It doesn't matter much really. I've never actually seen Queen Mary make it on to the real thing.

Reply 31

linkaneo

Original post by WhatIsAUsername?

It doesn't matter much really. I've never actually seen Queen Mary make it on to the real thing.

There's a first time for everything, though, isn't there?

Reply 32

Kevlar

Damn I was following this thread when it was made hadn't looked it at in the past month or so, would loved to have trialed for the team, and by looking at them questions I do know a fair amount of them answers Grr....

Reply 33

Democracy

Original post by ajp100688

Err, unless I've been very much misinformed didn't QMSU reject the motion of supporting a "socialist Great Britain and Ireland"? (Incidentally, a motion proposed by the Stop the Cuts group who aren't SU affiliated).

QMSU is the least socialist SU out there, and besides there were adverts for the trials all around the Student Village and in the Blomely Centre.

Reply 34

hollywoodbudgie

Original post by Democracy

QMSU is the least socialist SU out there, and besides there were adverts for the trials all around the Student Village and in the Blomely Centre.

True. There were quite a few posters around.

Reply 35

Locke54

Original post by Democracy

Yeah they did the fact that it was even brought up was ridiculous though, the meeting before that was pretty dodgy though when our resident lefties got extremely pissed off and started abusing people because it got postponed to a later date.

Also I highly doubt QMUL is the least Socialist SU out there given the people in it and their past actions. I think Exeter, Durham and Oxbridge might have something to say about it aswell with all their rahs :biggrin:

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Reply 36

Democracy

Original post by ajp100688

*shrug* It's a democratic union, people can bring up whatever they want, yes that includes the Trots. Luckily others had the sense to vote them down.

Also I highly doubt QMUL is the least Socialist SU out there given the people in it and their past actions. I think Exeter, Durham and the Oxbridges might have something to say about it aswell with all their rahs :biggrin:

I meant within London :p:

I'd say it's pretty apathetic and unpolitical really.

Reply 37

Locke54

Original post by Democracy

I meant within London :p:

I'd say it's pretty apathetic and unpolitical really.

True it's not raging lefty like some. I think I'd go mad if I went to SOAS, now that is a left wing university. I'm actually surprised we havn't had any occupations this semester given the tutition fees stuff.