Infodumpster

Another "University Challenge" grand final over. Now, the depressing three-month wait for next season begins. Congrats to Manchester and especially to their MVP, Madgwick. The lovely "Quizzy Lizzy" (from 2013) will always be that uni's #1 contestant, but he's surely earnt the #2 spot :-) I only managed to answer seven of the Qs correctly out loud before any of the students did. The level of play is just too high at this stage of the competition to expect a score of 20+ or even 10+. Sometimes, I look at my scoring answers - in this case, Eugene Onegin, corpse flower, Tarkovsky, Ian Smith, "Grizzly Man", Baron Samedi and Charlie Parker - and perceive the pathetic narrowness of my range of knowledge. Couldn't get a bloody STEM question to save meself. Even when my brain was young, sharp and untouched by alcohol, I don't think I was good enough to succeed on "U/C", but was I good enough to at least qualify for a team (maybe as a reserve)??? I've helped a few pub-quiz sides to glory in my time. Then again, that's likely true for *every* contestant. Madgwick is probably banned from his local pub quiz for winning too many prizes. Those poker-machine vouchers are supposed to be spread around, mate ;-P