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Posts by Chris Hall

Managed to get 45 on #UniversityChallenge final thanks to a set of bonuses on Zimbabwe. 2 starters - Wagner and Dom. 5 bonuses - mistletoe, Ian Smith, ZANU-PF, Ndebele and Charlie Parker

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Had the slipper at my school. Stung a bit

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They were difficult tonight. I had a couple of lucky guesses - if in doubt say "Beethoven" for a dramatic piece of classical music question

1 week ago 1 0 1 0

60 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Beethoven and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 8 bonuses - Graham Hill, Lester Piggott, Volga, Bernini, Bologna, Quo Vadis, Ecce Homo, De Profundis

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95 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Denmark, Barcelona, Version, Torque. 11 bonus - Norway, Cromwell, Kaliningrad, New York, Couperin, Blondie, Grapefruit, Seville, Holbein, Eifel/Eiffel, Pole/Poole

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100 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - percolation, Smiley, Balkan/Levant, DH Lawrence, Buenos Aires. 10 bonus - Navajo, Ash, World Series Cricket, Tony Greig, West Indies, Nicaragua, San Marino, Mary Magdalene, Amiens, Rebecca West. Plus my birthplace Ashford, Kent got a mention!

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95 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Black, Psalms, Col. 13 bonuses - Gorgons, Far From The Madding Crowd, Pride and Prejudice, Festival of Britain, Clerk, R.L. Stevenson, Rotterdam, St Francis of Assisi, Liszt, Mary I, Act of Settlement, Male primogeniture, Charlton Athletic

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re Aphra Behn - we have a statue of her here in Canterbury (her birthplace)

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65 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Mendelssohn and British National Grid, 9 bonuses - Monteverdi, Aphra Behn, Bute, Mull, Crucifixion, Devonian, Orkney, Elgar and Malawi

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The questions in these quarter finals do seem a lot more convoluted and difficult than in previous years

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85 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - York Minster, Colonel, Vulgar, Hogarth, King John. 7 bonus - Gaucho, waltz, Ravi Shankar, Burne Jones, Titian, Ken Russell, speedway

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75 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - 800m and Roger Bannister. 11 bonus - Jesuits, Preston, Ballarat, Toronto, Pastels, Constantinople, Kind Hearts and Coronets, It Always Rains on Sunday, Ealing, Jack Draper, Tom Daley

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Yes I should have got that one as well!

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

The questions seem a lot harder in these quarter finals

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95 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - A Suitable Boy, White Heat, 4th, Camera Obscura, Vienna, Greenwich. 7 bonus - John Clare, Autumn, Petra, Trappist, Leicestershire, Damien Hirst, Canaletto

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The Nailbourne chalk stream in East Kent has re-emerged in the last few days. Also known as the "Waters of Woe"

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The quarter finals seem to go on for ever

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65 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Rubens, Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1840s. 7 bonuses - New Zealand, Verdi, The Rachel Papers, Henry James, Millais, Constable, Pontius Pilate

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85 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Gustave, celluloid, veld. 11 bonus - Elizabeth Barret Browning, Idi Amin, Kinsey, Alice Springs, Lady Day, Candlemas, Lammas, Cherbourg, Norman, Age of Innocence, Carmen

2 months ago 2 0 0 0

100 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Desmond, Richard III, Odense, Portugal. 12 bonus - Arsenic and Old Lace, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Rochester, Brecon, Bury St Edmunds, Tennyson, Josephine Baker, Boar, Doncaster, Henry IV

3 months ago 3 0 0 0

60 on #UniversityChallenge - only 2 starters Turin and Apricot. 8 bonus - Nightingale, Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Sydney, Duke Ellington, Carmen Jones, Passchendaele, Edward IV

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110 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - BRIX, Pius, Bosnia War, Erskine, Holbein, Chas I, Alexander. 8 bonus - Goethe, Crystal Palace, Arrabbiata, Clipper, Van Gogh, Garrick, Rosalind, All About Eve

3 months ago 2 0 0 0

100 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bristol/Bath, Margaret Mitchell, Beamish. 14 bonus - Britten, Robert Redford, Alan Ladd, Leo DiCaprio, Salome, Neon, Hoover, Chrysler, Baikal, herbal, Hemingway, Thurso, Sunderland, Yttrium

3 months ago 1 0 0 0
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I thought I remembered Paxman used to do that in every Christmas episode.

3 months ago 0 0 1 0

I'm sure there was something he "corrected" but he'd actually got the wrong pronunciation and the team was correct!

3 months ago 1 0 0 0

He's very rude and condescending to the teams this year

3 months ago 2 0 1 0

Amol Rajan is so bloody condescending to the teams in this competition, I've gone right off him!

3 months ago 0 0 1 0

Baguette, John Adams, Grover Cleveland, Tehran

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165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - Schubert (Unfinished), Belgium, E-U, Thomas, Warfarin, John Ruskin, R. L Stevenson, Snapdragon. 17 bonus - Waterloo, Latvia, Slovakia, Murmansk, Lithuania, Millennium Stadium, Dvorak, pomegranate, partridge, Audobon, Burne Jones, Durer, Jimmy Connors

3 months ago 0 0 1 0

musk, Freud, Arvo Part, Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten, computer aided design

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