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And Guttenplan 62!

Thanks! Trimble had 46 according to Weavers week www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver'...

Do you know what the record for most individual starters in a series is? Madgwick must be close

Thanks for helping me stay sane

It's been a bad weekend for Arsenal, but while fans can understandably wallow with the angst until the next game, the team, the manager, and the club, have to do it differently.

Today's blog.

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Old Friends (Montclair, NJ) YouTube video by Pinegrove - Topic

Best version of an awesome song www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaoa...

I Have Changed And Manipulated Space Here we are for the last two quarter-final matches. This series has been going for nearly nine months and comes to a close in three short weeks. Before that, I've got some reviewing to do. I write th...

Review of University Challenge QFs 9&10, just in time for the first semi-final tomorrow #UniversityChallenge

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Ex-Tory minister Crispin Blunt pleads guilty to possession of crystal meth Former prisons minister appears in court to admit four drugs charges stemming from raid on his Surrey home

Not the drug you'd expect to see him with etc.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE) John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

this explains a lot. apparently the BBC promised Davidson that they would edit out any swearing, but despite having a 2-hour delay they didn't do that. instead he was miced up from 40 rows back variety.com/2026/film/aw...

Wild that this kind of stuff isn't the driver (lol) of economic policy in every country in the world.

University Challenge returns tonight after a three-week Winter Olympics-based hiatus

Edinburgh take on Merton with the first semi-final place up for grabs #UniversityChallenge

Rock ice, from a walk with mum and dad

Not to be deliberately contrary because it absolutely isn't what they say it is, but is it from the Sound of Music song?

making a mountain out of it

Absolute Slam Dunks Imperial and Warwick have played each other three times in University Challenge history. First in the 1996 semi-final, which Imperial won, and then in the quarter-finals and semi-finals of 2021, both ...

Review of Monday's match between Imperial and Warwick #UniversityChallenge www.quizposting.com/absolute-sla...

Reverting to the Time Domain Darwin vs Sheffield Darwin made it through to the quarter finals by making a mockery of my round two predictions and knocking off the number two-rated Merton College, so I won't be making the same mi...

Review of last week's #UniversityChallenge www.quizposting.com/reverting-to...

A Farewell to X I joined Twitter in October 2009 and immediately followed Stephen Fry, Jenson Button, Barack Obama and Jake Humphreys. Not quite a nightmare blunt rotation, but not the dream one either. Obama followe...

Review of last week's #UniversityChallenge, in which I finally leave Twitter www.quizposting.com/a-farewell-t...

could possibly get around that by having some spaces reserved for teams who weren't on last year, or within the past five years. Or a space reserved for a new team. They already select based on a number of factors other than team strength, so could continue doing that with some added caveats

We already knew they were smart enough to suffer

Do you mean in terms of teams? If so I think I agree. You could end up with the same teams returning over and over if they had players who popped off

The College Sports Piece It's too late to say Happy New Year, so I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'm going to say well done to Durham, who became the first quartet in University Challenge history to retain their trophy in ...

review of last week's #UniversityChallenge, in which I propose a major change to the show semi-seriously www.quizposting.com/the-college-...

A classic of the genre

Ancient DNA Edinburgh and Trinity have played only once in UC history, with Edinburgh winning a quarter-final match in 2022. Trinity came into this as slight favourites (to me, in terms of winning likelihood), bu...

Review of last week's University Challenge www.quizposting.com/ancient-dna/

Stitch Incoming Two things happened this week which made me feel old. First, I was jumping up and down in my kitchen (not sure exactly why, the reason being lost in the ensuing pain) and rolled my foot in a way that...

Stitch Incoming - Review of R2.3 (Southampton//Imperial) and R2.4 (Bristol//Warwick) #UniversityChallenge www.quizposting.com/stitch-incom...

Septuple Negatives November is National Novel Writing Month. Or at least it was, before the NaNoWriMo organisation crashed and burned at the altar of AI (everything is AI, these days). Instead, then I'm calling it LoMoW...

My review of Monday's #UniversityChallenge, which had seven incorrect interruptions www.quizposting.com/septuple-neg...

Not So Neighbourhood Watch SOAS played UCL in their first round match, and I estimated their proximity to be among the highest of all non-collegiate University Challenge teams, with the walk between their campuses coming in und...

Review of Monday's #UniversityChallenge

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Power Up Storm Amy whacked our power out for two days last weekend. Which means that for once I have a good excuse for not getting round to writing my review of Imperial vs Churchill. Of course, I could have w...

Review of the last two first round matches

Imperial vs Churchill one of my fave matches of the series so far #UniversityChallenge www.quizposting.com/power-up/

Welcome to the Show Isn't it infuriating when something you've heard a million times but never really taken on board turns out to be right? Sipping a coffee on the sofa, a casual morning, I take out my notebook. Take ou...

Review of Monday's #UniversityChallenge, featuring a major realisation about the quality of my writing

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Award Winning? This morning I entered a writing prize. Or rather, I'm not sure if I entered it, because when I originally tried to submit - with about 15 minutes to spare before a deadline I've known about for more ...

A rare weekend post - Monday's #UniversityChallenge review

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