And the winner isn't....
Shock and disbelief in the corridors of academe today. Just a week after triumphing in the University Challenge final, Oxford's Corpus Christi team have been stripped of their title. It emerged that one of the team had graduated and was ineligible to take part. The University of Manchester team will now claim the crown.
It's a massive blow to the dream team captained by the sainted Gail Trimble whose path to victory seemed, well, academic. I wonder if the lads' mag "Nuts" will now withdraw their offer to put Gail on their cover. Sic transit gloria Trimble.
Meanwhile, The Times reports that Manchester's team captain, Matthew Yeo, celebrated his unexpected success "by attending a lecture on Anglo-Saxon literacy." Now there's a boy who knows how to party.
It's a massive blow to the dream team captained by the sainted Gail Trimble whose path to victory seemed, well, academic. I wonder if the lads' mag "Nuts" will now withdraw their offer to put Gail on their cover. Sic transit gloria Trimble.
Meanwhile, The Times reports that Manchester's team captain, Matthew Yeo, celebrated his unexpected success "by attending a lecture on Anglo-Saxon literacy." Now there's a boy who knows how to party.