University Challenge

[lazaroonie]

cant see this mentioned anywhere else, what an amazing final last night. It was billed as a one woman show - Gail Trimble had answered more questions than any other contestant in the history of the show. Manchester took an early lead, and it looked like Corpus Christi were in trouble - maybe nerves, but they were all having difficulty getting in first on the buzzer, and then even when they did, getting answers wrong.

In the end though, Ms Trimble steadied her ship and the Oxford college won thru after a titanic struggle.

I was glued to the screen. I even managed a few right answers myself.

[Graham C]

it amazes me that such young (sometimes) people can know so much stuff!  It makes my head hurt trying to understand some of the questions yet alone having a bash at the answers.  I do get some in the heats, but semi final time, you really need to know your information that you wont use that often.

Did catch the end, gg wp CCO

[Jon MW]

My bosses son knows her. Apparantly she's a nice person - but a bit sad, because all she ever does is study.

[AndrewT]

UC is spoilt by having post-grads on it - they should have no one over 22 on the teams.

And just LOL at Paxman making out this was some David v Goliath contest by going on about how few students CC has compared to Manchester.

[Chompy]

Great final. Ms Trimble has been getting a lot of stick on some forums apparently. Absurd. She's different class, get on her Eggheads in place of imo.

[tikay]

Gail Trimble - my absolute hero.

She's getting a very rough ride from the Red-Tops & skanky Forum users, as did Rebecca, our Golden swimmer, but Gail is really something special, & we should be proud of her.

She very much reminds me of Jen Mason. Bright, self-effacing, articulate, knows everything, a degree in Classical Languages, even got the long hair, & bins.

[kinboshi]

Was a good final.  I thought manchester were going to romp away with it, but CC had the sprint finish and won by a fair few lengths at the end.

How excited was the names announcer towards the end though?  "Corpus CHRISTI TRIIIIIIMBLE!!"

[Claw75]

Great final. Ms Trimble has been getting a lot of stick on some forums apparently. Absurd. She's different class, get on her Eggheads in place of Kinboshi imo.

fyp - she'd have known the talcum powder one.

[AndrewT]

How excited was the names announcer towards the end though?  "Corpus CHRISTI TRIIIIIIMBLE!!"

That was very funny - I can just imagine the UC producer telling to 'get a bit excited' towards the end as it was the final and he completely went overboard.

[TightEnd]

She was terrific

Intelligence in ladies is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO attractive, I find (but not often)

[Colchester Kev]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7907861.stm?lss

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7906727.stm

[kinboshi]

Great final. Ms Trimble has been getting a lot of stick on some forums apparently. Absurd. She's different class, get on her Eggheads in place of Kinboshi imo.

fyp - she'd have known the talcum powder one.

Ha ha.

[Claw75]

Great final. Ms Trimble has been getting a lot of stick on some forums apparently. Absurd. She's different class, get on her Eggheads in place of Kinboshi imo.

fyp - she'd have known the talcum powder one.

Ha ha.

yeah she'd have known that one too - we'd have won all da moniez

[Longy]

How excited was the names announcer towards the end though?  "Corpus CHRISTI TRIIIIIIMBLE!!"

Yeah that made me laugh.

I love University challenge even though the questions are incredibly hard, I get 1 in 5 of the maths questions and I have a sodding degree in the subject.

[AndrewT]

I do like the new-style questions they've had on recently - the ones based around making words out of postcodes and last night's kit/skit, peculate/speculate questions. Good to see them try and work something out rather than recite stuff from memory.