Daily Telegraph Pub Quiz
I am currently taking part in the Daily Telegraph Pub Quiz which has a top prize of 8,000 pounds and my team has been doing quite well so far. Then again, the team does comprise most of the quiz society committee, plus old quizzing hand Dorjana. We calculated that between four of the five of us, we have respectively: three University Challenge Team Captains (two quarterfinals, one highest scoring loser), one UC Champion, two Mastermind or potential Mastermind contestants (with one person turning them down), one person who has taken part in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and a person who has finished 5th in the World Quizzing Championships (Dorjana). Mark the fifth person on the team has the honour of being the President of the Oxford Quiz Society.
The quiz comprises questions worth a total of 35 points, along with 2 sudokus, 1 origami and 1 rubik's cube worth 5 points each for a total of 55 points each round. We did very well last Sunday, though we lost out on 30 quid in prize money in a playoff question about the total coastline of Brazil where we were out by no less than 4,500 odd kilometres. It's just one more round to go this coming Sunday, so as they say in quizzing terms, it's still all to play for.
The quiz comprises questions worth a total of 35 points, along with 2 sudokus, 1 origami and 1 rubik's cube worth 5 points each for a total of 55 points each round. We did very well last Sunday, though we lost out on 30 quid in prize money in a playoff question about the total coastline of Brazil where we were out by no less than 4,500 odd kilometres. It's just one more round to go this coming Sunday, so as they say in quizzing terms, it's still all to play for.
posted by Caleb Liu | 2:27 AM
6 Comments:
Please please tell us that the UC champion is the lovely and erudite Corpus-Christi-Mariani.
Sorry to disappoint you on two counts. Firstly, the UC champion is not Mariani, and secondly, while Mariani may be a quizzing genius, quizzing abilities may not necessarily be representative of personality. I think he is a decent enough bloke but not everyone shares my opinion, and lovely is certainly not a word that I would say is commonly associated with him
Mine was an aesthetic judgment, based purely on looks in a shallow and fangirly fashion (although I'm sure he has a sweet personality - his masterful rendition of such words as "Physalis" and "Ammianus Marcellinus" convinces me of this).
Perhaps Aesthetics doesn't feature on your Philosphy course? Personally I swapped it for Ethics on mine - and have been all the better for it. I note incidentally that your Ethical stance on the vexed question: "Should we tell the Truth about our Friends?" falls
heavily on the side of Truth (or is it just your Opinion?)
Are you of "We havn't got a real scientist" fame?
So who is the UC champion?
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