University Challenge

And we have a new record for the lowest score ever in UC, unbroken since Exeter's 350-15 loss against Corpus Christi Oxford in 2009. I think Spike Asri's interruptions managed to take away the majority of the team's points. Hope he wasn't in the student union watching the match today.
Birmingham seems to be quite weak at science. I think that will cost them later on.

Got 21 questions correct in total, more starters correct than usual.

Ones I ought to have got but didn't were Debye, countable and 36 (I managed to think of every 2-digit square except that one).

Ones I got wot they didn't:
Turgid
Cassegrain
I May Destroy You
Tunguska
Eccentricity
Alternative hypothesis

Birmingham should go far in the competition... their captain is an exceptional player

And we have a new record for the lowest score ever in UC, unbroken since Exeter's 350-15 loss against Corpus Christi Oxford in 2009.

A fairly high-scoring game that's also close! I was rooting for UCL towards the end - an Imperial v UCL matchup would've been a fun one to watch in the student union. Managed to get 23 right.

Ones I got wot they didn't:
Palladium
Glinka
Tritium
Hector

Slightly fewer this time - got 17. There was still too much modern stuff for my liking, and I thought questions on which football team outside of Manchester or London was the last to win the Premier League were the type that wouldn't appear on UC...

Slightly fewer this time - got 17. There was still too much modern stuff for my liking, and I thought questions on which football team outside of Manchester or London was the last to win the Premier League were the type that wouldn't appear on UC...

Think that's a bit unfair, but the Blackburn question was really quite basic football knowledge I thought, and the FA Cup Manchester/London question was very ill-defined. (What are you defining as Manchester, because if you're using Greater Manchester then that includes Wigan, and if you're using the city of Manchester, that excludes Manchester United?)

23 questions right this time
I've got the first round of trials tomorrow

Ones I got wot they didn't:
Vespasian - pecunia non olet
Scots pine
Titan
Copyright
Silver
Ohm metre
Spiro Agnew
Clone

i was convinced the Greek guy was Mr Dukakis

what are trials ?

It did help with that question that in the run-up to the last US election I looked up every election on wikipedia in the past hundred years.

These are the trials for getting on to the university's team for University Challenge

they would be silly not to make you the Captain

There are much better people at uni than me who are yet to make the team!