UC At Christmas

I’m not going to review every edition of Christmas UC this year, but I don’t mind saying it was a pleasure to see it back last night as the lead in to Mastermind. The University of Reading were comfortably beaten by Emmanuel College. I was delighted to see Emmanuel’s team including Rory McGrath, this year’s host for November’s GetConnected Charity evening, and a decent quizzer in his own right. I enjoyed last night, since it’s worth the price of admission watching JP biting his tongue when one of the teams comes out with a silly answer. In particular there was one member of the Reading team – they were doing it for charity so no names – no pack drill - who came out with the totally irrelevant answer of ‘sausage’ for one question , and then reckoned that Madeira is a Commonwealth country – wrong on both counts. Perhaps a little too much of the BBC sherry partaken before the show, there. A comfortable win for Emmanuel there.