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It's depressing when they get them wrong, but as long as I get them right I'm not too bothered. In general, they know much more about much more than I did at their age.
Musical illiteracy apart, good to have UC back. (But Quizzy Monday.....yuk) Thought the Peterhouse team-leader superbly cool, calm, collected and calculating.
But the most impressive guy from Riga blew them all (inc. Paxo) out of the water by delivering the Russian name for 'Firebird' in his correct answer to a later question!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
But the most impressive guy from Riga blew them all (inc. Paxo) out of the water by delivering the Russian name for 'Firebird' in his correct answer to a later question!
- yes, and he seemed even to be translating the title for himself, as if he'd never heard the English version before.
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
Kellogg College, Oxford (didn't know there was such a thing).... known to its friends (quoth Paxo) as...
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Corpus Chrispi
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
One of the opposing team from Christ's College, Cambridge is called Kitchen. Rather enjoying the call from the bloke who announces who's rung:
"Christ's Kitchen!"
Sounds like a Batman exclamation...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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