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University Challenged at Christmas (6) (25.12.16)

In my keenness to cover yesterday’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special on Twitter, I neglected to do the same with the same day’s Christmas University Challenge. As with Friday’s show, which I missed when it went out and then covered in a iPlayer-and -smart-phone faux-Twitter simulation, I watched my forgotten episode today (see below). It seems my last blogs of 2016 will be mostly tweet summaries, which is a laidback way to round things off; next year, I’ll post just a single word here a day. Magdalene - Cambridge Vs. St Hilda's - Oxford (25.12.16) 6:45pm If you’re lucky, I'll show you my distinguished alumni. 6:46pm: Note Paxman gave Patrick Moore the prefix 'popular’, while Brian May was just 'Queen guitarist'.  6:47pm: Film producer Newell doesn't look very happy about it.  6:47pm: "Clemency". Of course. 6:48pm: Imagine how high pitched a Jimmy Somerville college would be. 6:...