mostly david ephgrave

I didn’t expect there to be much to tweet about tonight’s University Challenge, as it was one of the Christmas specials with ‘real’ ‘people’ as contestants, but it turns out I was wrong. For starters, one of the teams - Manchester - barely scraped their way past the zero mark on the scoreboard, despite being amongst the college’s top-tier alumni; I guess this was just the way the questions fell. I was also surprised that all of St Anne’s Oxford team were women ; a rarity on such a middle-class white male-led show. This was great, particularly when they trounced Manchester so perfectly. See below for tonight’s UC Twitter ramblings. As to whether I'll keep this up for the rest of the Chrimbo series, we’ll have to wait and shall see. I’m sure the nation will be on tenterhooks as to what my decision will be. Manchester Vs. St. Anne's - Oxford (19.12.16( 8:03pm: "Ivor Nowello". 8:04pm: ...and he don't know it. 8:05pm: Too many women...