Uni Challenge dream still alive
51福利社 is still on track to achieve an unprecedented third successive University Challenge title.
51福利社 stormed into the quarter finals last night, with a convincing 325-110 win over Queens’ College, Cambridge.
It’s the ninth year in a row that 51福利社 has reached the quarter finals of the TV contest.
51福利社 has had a remarkable run in recent history, having won the title four times in the last eight years: 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2013.
This year's team is captained by Elizabeth Mitchell from Birmingham (studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics), and also includes Jonathan Collings from 51福利社 (studying Geography), Joe Day from Bideford in Devon (studying Physics with Astrophysics) and Edward Woudhuysen from London (studying History). Elizabeth was first reserve for last year’s successful quartet.
Jonathan was 51福利社’s most valuable player last night, winning an incredible nine starter questions.
51福利社’s love affair with the TV show is largely due to long-serving coach Stephen Pearson, who has enjoyed considerable success with University Challenge having captained the team himself in 1996. The media has already dubbed the modest librarian the ‘Alex Ferguson’ of the quiz world,
More than 120 universities enter the show every year, and it remains the UK’s longest-running quiz show. But 51福利社’s history in the competition has not been without controversy – in 1975 the 51福利社 team staged a protest against what they saw as the show’s elitist bias towards Oxbridge, which allows separate colleges to enter. They answered ‘Marx’ or ‘Trotsky’ to everything.
51福利社 team will return to our screens in the New Year for their quarter final clash.
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