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Here’s today’s Twitter snarking about this evening’s episode of University Challenge. I apologise for my directness; I assure you that I’m not as bitchy as it seems. 8:06pm: Cambridge's Powell: the # UniversityChallenge Gimp Apex. 8:08pm: I do love a # UniversityChallenge contestant who's speech impediment precludes them from saying the subject they're studying. # Powell 8:09pm: Oscar Powell: a Boris Johnson love-child. 8:13pm: Cambridge's Langley used to present Look Around You. 8:16pm: Oscar Powell will be a future Tory Prime Minister. Mark my words. 8:18pm: I'd like to ruffle Russell's fluffy hair whilst singing Proclaimers hits at Clegg. 8:22pm: If Wood and Sowood married each other and then double-barrelled their names, they'd end up as Mr & Mrs Wood-Sowood. 8:25pm: The sexual tension between Paxman and Woods is palpable. 8:26pm: Powell has a poster ...

For me, no Monday would be complete without a spot of Twitter bitching about the teams competing in that night's University Challenge. It’s my least appealing characteristic, second to the features sprouting from the front side of my head. I’d been unable to luxuriate in my predilection for student-contestant unpleasantness for few weeks, due to BBC2 airing a handful of Celebrity UC specials; those quasi-famous participants weren’t good fodder. This week, I was back with a vengeance. See below for Monday's posts; they weren't big or clever. 8:08pm: Queen's Belfast's Mallon could kill you with one look. 8:09pm: Paxman, channelling Alan Partridge. # Moribund 8:10pm: Clegg and Russell look like children dressed as the middle-aged. 8:11pm: Sowood nearly burst while saying "Pulsar". 8:13pm: Mallon drank from the wrong grail in The Last Crusade. 8:15pm: Bon Jovi? BON JOVI?! ...