University Challenge

Haha I saw highlights of that - Paxman started celebrating when they got it right. I think it was an all-girls Cambridge team actually.

Just missed out on the uni challenge team this year - hope we get to the final again and win it though Magdalen last year were supreme!

Which college are you in?

This brings back memories - Jesus Hadley!



The engagingly named "Chantal Hadley".

Sorry should have been more precise, York (colleges are here but slightly irrelevant :P) but we did make the final last year thanks to the supreme clementinho. There was a tweet going round that that 'prog rock group have wandered onto university challenge' which summed the team up really.

You weren't in the 2009 York team? Laura Horton was said to be striking.

They were in 2009 so I think they'd have been chosen the year before I went there.... they were useless though iirc, went out in the first round!

And the Young Ones is class!

oh yeah, my soon to be supervisor kicked their arse
Haha I'm loving having Gail Trimble as my supervisor!

Wow!! Kind of jealous but I think we went out to the Royal Vetinary College, we didn't go up i 2009 against the juggernaut that was the Trimblenator.

It says on Wikipedia that Sussex got 10 points in 71/72.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Challenge#Lowest_scores

I remember some team (a couple of years ago - was it an all-girls team from Oxford?) who languished on -10 for most of the programme - after quite a while they got a Starter for Ten and Paxman said "you've now surged up to zero points".

It would be fun to see a table of the highest scores ever - there isn't one on Wikipedia, it just says that UC Oxford got 520 once. Although the opposition was weak, i am looking to Durham as possible winner this year after that, they are very very sharp. 325 is impressive.

There's a table of highscores on this page:
http://www.blanchflower.org/uc/stats_hiscore.html

There are some other nice stats on that site too!

There's a table of highscores on this page:
http://www.blanchflower.org/uc/stats_hiscore.html

There are some other nice stats on that site too!

There's a table of highscores on this page:
http://www.blanchflower.org/uc/stats_hiscore.html

There are some other nice stats on that site too!

There's a table of highscores on this page:
http://www.blanchflower.org/uc/stats_hiscore.html

There are some other nice stats on that site too!

Is "open" the open university then? I've never seen them on there, but they seem to do extremely well!

Is "open" the open university then? I've never seen them on there, but they seem to do extremely well!

There were several complaints about Open's teams in the past, which usually featured much older contestants. I heard that they are no longer allowed to enter a team into the contest.

Also (concerning an earlier post), each year has several first year students (including this year!).