University Challenge First round - Magdalen, Oxford v. Robinson, Cambridge

The Teams

Magdalen, Oxford

Aidan Woo

Lily Costa-Ferreira

Benjamin Sharkey (Capt)

Sasha Walker

Robinson College, Cambridge

Michael Shipman

Jessica Cronin

Eve Temmink (Capt)

Otis Moran

I shan’t lie to you. Last week’s Quizzy Monday being on Tuesday messed up my schedule for the whole week, and being ill on Wednesday onwards didn’t help a great deal either. Okay, enough of my problems.

Jessica Cronin took the first starter for Robinson recognizing two works with jungle in the title. They rode their luck a little with the second of a set of bonuses on cities named after Roman Emperors but still took two. Skipper Eve Temmink was the first to buzz for the next starter which seemed all the way along to be pointing to Mondrian, as indeed it was. I only knew one of the botanicals used to flavour gin for the next set and so did Robinson. The next starter showed that it often pays to have someone with a good working knowledge of Tudor history on your team as neither recognized fairly obvious clues to the surname Seymour for the next starter. Sasha Walker recognized references to perennial crowd pleaser Kurt Godel in the next starter. It was nice to see the Trolley Problem, known to all of us used to doing a big shop in Tescos on a wet Tuesday getting namechecked in a bonus set on double effect thinking. Magdalen had one of these. Sasha Walker took her double with the picture starter identifying the sites of Agra and Petra. More maps showing locations of two world heritage sites brought a well earned full house to Magdalen. The splendidly titled To Pimp a Butterfly (sequel to the album why The Hell Would You Want To - ) brought Aidan Woo his first starter. Diseases named after places brought just one correct answer on a gettable set. So, after a lively first period the score on 10 minutes stood at 55 – 35 to Magdalen.

Michael Shipman took his first starter on Archimedes of Syracuse and Robinson faced three bonuses on Romanesque architecture in England. One of which they answered correctly. They weren’t all easy to be fair. Michael Shipman then came in too early for the next starter allowing Magdalen to identify the dessert Charlotte. Captain Benjamin Sharkey took that one. US Secretary of State William Henry Seward provided two bonuses. Seward was badly injured by the conspirators who murdered Abraham Lincoln. A very interesting figure. For the next starter Lily Costa-Ferreira knew the word horror  - surprised that nobody had it after the Heart of Darkness clue but there we are. Fandom in fiction was a really interesting bonus theme for the next set but only the last question on Turning Red proved gettable for any of us. So to the music starter and Lily Costa-Ferreira took her double with The Stooges. Sadly I don’t think that they ever had a line up where they were just a trio. Other 60s songs with titles mentioning dogs brought two bonuses. Our second baby elephant walk inducing starter passed me by completely but Sasha Walker said the answer was insulator and I ain’t about to argue with that. French chemist Henri Braconnot and his discoveries gave me a lap of honour for knowing chitin. Magdalen took two and let’s be honest, they seemed to be bossing this stage of the match. This continued when Benjamin Sharkey knew that Henry II was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine. He seemed awfully pleased to get a set of bonuses on places commemorating battles of the Napoleonic Wars. They took two. Various places with words for Cross in their name fell to Sasha Walker. The poems of Elizabeth Bishop – written before she was a character in Corrie? – brought a single bonus. Aidan Woo knew that the work referenced in the next starter focuses on Indonesia. Memorial or Ceremonial Gates provided one bonus – a rush of blood to the head from the skipper prevented it being two. Didn’t matter. It looked to me as if they were already over the event horizon by 20 minutes as Magdalen led 180 – 45.

Finally Eve Temmink managed to elbow her team back into the game recognizing the picture starter, a terracotta warrior and the dynasty during which it was created. More pictures of artifacts followed and Robinson identified two of the dynasties in which they were created. Nobody in either team seemed to know that as well as the Floor, the Vault is the only other discipline to feature in both women’s and men’s gymnastics. Eve Temmink knew that a malar rash is a sign of Lupus. Insects brought couple of bonuses. The skipper was quite rightly throwing caution to the wind with her buzzing, but sadly lost five with the next which allowed Aidan Woo in with Guyana. Cattle deities in world mythology promised something interesting and delivered, but only one of them was answered correctly by Magdalen. Sasha Walker won the buzzer race to give the term protectionism. The ballet Swan Lake gave another two bonuses. The excellent Sasha Walker won another buzzer race to identify Lombardy for the next starter. A full house on velodromes followed. The next starter was an old quiz chestnut about the gemstone that was believed to prevent a drinker from becoming drunk – yeah, hope springs eternal was correctly answered by Jessica Cronin. Geological terms derived from Celtic languages yielded one bonus. Benjamin Sharkey knew the Abbasid empire for the next starter. Trilogies named after a city didn’t add to the Magdalen total, but it would have just been gilding anyway. I’ve never drunk Kombucha and frankly having listened to its description I don’t plan to do so any time soon. Eve Temmink took her team into triple figures with it. They took one bonus on departments of France and the contest ended during the next starter. Magdalen won by 245 to 105. And that, ladies and gents, is the first round done.

Curiously there was next to nothing between both teams’ BCRs – Magdalen was the slightly better with 50% while Robinson’s was 48%. However, Magdalen had earned almost twice as many bonus to attempt.

Amol Watch

Sorry Amol, but 19 minutes in is just too late to say there’s plenty of time left. There isn’t. Say – still enough time to get going - if you’re this far into the show. Mind you, it’s better than saying – Robinson, are your buzzers still working? -  so fair play to you.

Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of The Week

Orleans was named after the Roman Emperor Aurelian.

Baby Elephant Walk Moment

Including an early example of exponentiation to express very large numbers, the Sand Reckoner is a work by which ancient thinker, in which he attempts to estimate how many grains of sand could fit into the universe? It was written as a letter to Gelon II, the King of Syracuse. Yes, the mention of Syracuse made it obvious it had to be Archimedes, but goodness me we had to wade through so much dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum to get there.

Repechage qualifiers

Sheffield	170
SOAS	170
Imperial	160
New College, Oxford	150

Mastermind 2026 First Round Heat 13

Welcome to Quizzy Tuesday, folks. Yes, blessed be the name  of international football, and even quizzy Monday must make way. Still, at least this week’s Mastermind had probably my biggest banker subject of the whole series so far. I’ll come to that.

First of all though we had Paddy Moore, answering on the films of Billy Wilder. Now, don’t get me wrong, I think that Billy Wilder was great and “Some Like It Hot” is still one of my favourite films. But this didn’t bring me many points though. 1 to be precise. I didn’t think they were any easy set at all. Paddy struggled manfully with it, but a relatively modest 6 meant that there was going to be a substantia hill for him to climb in the second half. David Niven told a wonderful story about Billy Wilder. On a trip to Europe his wife had asked him to obtain a bidet. Unable to do so he telegrammed her saying ‘Unable to obtain bidet stop. Suggest handstand in shower stop. “

If you’d suggested to me before the start of the show that I’d earn more points on Neil Diamond than on Billy Wilder then I would have been surprised. But that’s exactly what happened, with me taking 2. Davina Keby-Beck had obviously prepared thoroughly and she sailed through to a double figure score of 10.I took 2 on this and to be honest that’s two more than I had expected. Cracklin’ Rosie, a song apparently about a girl’s unhealthy love of pork scratchings, was one of them.

Yes, my banker for the night – and possibly for the whole of this series, was the Apollo Space Program, which was offered by Anjaneya Bapat. I scored 9 on this round, which incidentally is the same score that Anjaneya achieved. We didn’t get all of the same questions mind you. I had that Ed White, killed in the tragic Apollo 1 capsule fire, was the first American to walk in space – and if I’m honest I thought that was one of the easier questions. But then Anjaneya got a hard one I didn’t so fair’s fair.

Richard Carr brought the round to an end with his specialist set on the Battle of Normandy. Fair play, he knew his stuff. I used to take parties of schoolchildren to Normandy every year, and learned a fair bit about the Normandy campaign during these trips. People think that once D Day had happened the war in Europe was virtually all over bar the shouting, but this wasn’t the case at all, and the Battle of Normandy saw some of the hardest fighting at any time in any theatre of the war. Richard’s knowledge was certainly up to the demands of the task and he top scored with an excellent 11.

So to Paddy Moore fell the daunting task of returning to the chair after seeing the lead set at a score five points higher than what he had achieved in his specialist. And fair play, he really gave it a good old lash. Paddy added 12 to his score for a total of 18. In my heart of hearts I did not think it would quite be enough, but nonetheless it was a great effort.

Anjaneya could not match it. Mind you, he didn’t have to match it exactly. He was three points to the good after the specialists and thus needed 9 and 2 passes for the outright lead. Well, he did only take two passes. Sadly though he only managed a perfectly respectable 8 correct answers.

Davina Kesby-Beck was a further point ahead with 10 on the specialist round, and this meant that if she could match Anjaneya’s GK performance then she would go into the lead. Well, shebettered Anjaneya in one way, managing to answer every question and thus not incur any passes. Sadly though only 7 of these answers were correct. This meant that she too finished with 17, a respectable score but not a winning one.

So, only Richard remained. I think that either he had decided beforehand that passin rather than guessing was his preferred option. Either that or he opted for the tactic on the hoof as the round progressed. It was getting pretty late on and he still hadn’t reached the target. A late rally, though was enough to see him over the line and to put daylight between himself and the trailing pack.

Well, done Richard, best of luck to you in the semi finals. As for Mastermind, well, I’ll see you on Monday, where you belong.

The Details

Paddy Moore	The Films of Billy Wilder	6	2	12	1	18	3
Davina Kesby-Beck	Neil Diamond	10	0	7	0	17	0
Anjaneya Bapat	The Apollo Space Program	9	0	8	2	17	2
Richard Carr	The Battle of Normandy	11	0	9	6	20	6

University Challenge Round 1 Imperial University v. Churchill College, Cambridge

The Teams

Imperial

Rahim Dina

Eugenia Tong

Oscar O’Flanagan (Capt)

Justin Keung

Churchill College, Cambridge

Ella McGovern

Matt Hasler

Sam Webber (Capt)

Shiv Sheshan

For the first starter last night, it suddenly became clear that the figure Karl Marx described as a splendid fellow was Spartacus. Which makes sense, after all, I am Spartacus. Oscar O’Flanagan had that one. Games that won a BAFTA – no, me neither – saw Imperial take a couple of passes and a near miss. An incorrect Imperial interruption gave Churchill the full question and allowed Shiv Sheshan to answer Equatorial Guinea. 3 questions on Shelley brought 1 correct answer. You had to wait and wait with the next starter that required the name of an artist, then when Third of May was mentioned Justin Keung leapt to his buzzer and gave the correct answer of Goya. Transition metal complexes. Imagine my delight when Amol announced the next bonus subject. At least Imperial had two of them – which is two more than I did. A relatively gentle picture starter showed the flag of Fiji. Shiv Sheshan’s twitchy buzzer finger gave away 5, and Eugenia Tong came in with the correct answer. More flags with representations of fruit on them brought a pair of bonuses to Imperial. Amol announced a Maths starter. It was all too easy for Justin Keung who knew lambda calculus almost before Amol had asked for it. From Greek letters to Greek Mythology for the bonuses – figures whose names began with Pro. Imperial managed just one, much to the obvious irritation of their skipper. Steady the buffs, mate. This brought us to the 10 minute mark, with Imperial leading 60 – 15.

Oscar O’Flanagan recognised the character Julia from Orwell’s 1984. When I first read it 1984 was still several years in the future. Zang Tumb Tumb (surely a character in Star Wars Part 1) surprisingly brought me two bonuses while Imperial took 1. Imperial lost five of their hard won points with the next starter while Shiv Sheshan gave the correct answer of Paraguay. Unusual items in the collection of the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds only yielded 1 bonus. Shiv Sheshan recognised a reference to Thucydides for the next starter. Notable academicians buried in Gottingen brought a single bonus which took us up to the music starter. Nobody recognised a little bit of Holst. Smithson – surname of two numpties who did a lot to promote horrible brutalist architecture in the UK, brought Rahim Dina his first starter. This earned the music bonuses on classical compositions based on jigs. There you go. Nul points. Nobody knew about archaeophytes for the next starter. Rahim Dina took a double by recognising a description of the film 81/2 and this brought bonuses on Errollyn Wallen, alright, Errollyn ‘Who?’ Wallen.I had a surprising full house, while Imperial managed 2. Imperial came in too early for the next starter but lost fve, but nobody in the Churchill team had good enough French to get the pronoun mon. Shiv Sheshan knew the aboriginal concept of Dreamtime for the next starter. The Seven Wonders of the Peak was a new one on me, but two bonuses on the subject fell to Churchill. It was Imperial who led by 95 – 65 though.

So far, then, a pretty unremarkable contest between two decent teams. At this point Matt Hasler found the range with his buzzer to answer that the latin phrase given meant The Once and Future King.The Masque of The Red Death provided two bouses and narrowed the Imperial lead to 10 points. Matt Hasler very quickly recognised a still from A Matter of Life and Death for the second picture starter. Other films chosen for Royal Film Performances saw Churchill take just one of a pretty gettable set. Justin Keung took the next starter knowing that L means Lossless. Who knew? (Not me). Index fossils saw a welcome namecheck for trilobites. (I’ve always liked trilobites). We both took a full set on these. The Bourbons – the dynasty rather than the biscuits – brought another starter for the impressive Shiv Sheshan. Two bonuses on the year 1325 were taken, and only a mishearing by the skipper prevented a full house. All square. He made amends by recognising a description of Swahili for the next starter. A full house on transcription systems gave Churchill a 25 point lead, and put them in striking distance of at least a repechage score. Shiv Sheshan’s starter answer on the border between India and Pakistan pushed them even closer. The endocrine system brought me a lap of honour for guessing hormones was the answer to the first bonus. The couple that Churchill took guaranteed they would be back during the series. Could Imperial match them? Oscar O’Flanagan knew that La Scala means the stairway. A full house on Korean cuisine pushed them to the brink. The skipper also knew the term Recombination in relation to the history of the Universe. The one they knew on tidal islands put them into the repechage at least. Matt Hasler sealed the deal for Churchill, though, knowing that German words for tide and ghost combine to form the word zeitgeist. GONNNGGGGG! Churchill had won with 175 – 160.

Well, who would have thought that the contest would develop the way that it did after that start? For the record Imperial had a BCR of 50% while Churchill had a slightly better 54%. I’m glad that both teams have gone through, it would be a shame for one to have had to leave after that.

Amol Watch

Amol, sir, I loved your work in the last third of the contest, as your speed of delivery was equal to the speed of the contest.

Interesting Fact That I Didn’t Already Know Of The Week

An administrative area of Paraguay is named after rather nondescript US president Rutherford B. Hayes.

Baby Elephant Walk Moment

The chemical messengers used by the endocrine system were given what name from the Greek ‘to arouse’ by physiologist Ernest Starling, who discovered the example of secretin with William Bayliss? Dum de dumdum dum dum dum dum dumdum.

Repechage Table

   

Sheffield	170
SOAS	170
Imperial	160
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New College Oxford	150
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Lancaster	145
Trinity Hall, Cambridge	135
Grenn-Templeton, Oxford	130
Durham	120
Cardiff	115
Linacre, Oxford	115
Newcastle	105
Bath	70
Harper Adams	45

Mastermind 2026 Round 1 heat 12

Well, off we go then. Peter Glanvill kicked off proceedings with a good round answering on the Jurassic Coast. It’s beautiful, but not as exciting as Jurassic Park. I had 4 of these. To be honest I did think that the first couple could have been straight general knowledge questions, but hey, if it boosts my aggregate then I shouldn’t complain. The contender had obviously prepared well, and very little caused him much difficulty. A double figure score was a just reward, I thought.

Nest into the chair was librarian Phyllis Ramage. Phyllis was answering on the plays of Moliere. I’ll admit that four and a half decades ago when I was studying French literature as part of my A Level in French, her greatest dramatist was not on the syllabus. So I didn’t have any of these. I don’t know why, but the round did not work out for Phyllis. Maybe something was wrong about her preparation, but who knows? She scored 4, and it looked as if it was going to be a long evening for her.

Civil Servant Matthew McStea followed. Matthew was answering on Her Majesty the Queen – sorry, I’ll read that again, he was answering questions on the band Queen. I heard a good story when I was in Liverpool a couple of weeks ago. On the Magical Mystery Tour the guide told us that at a charity gala of some kind, the late queen mentioned to Sir Paul McCartney that she had some Beatles albums in the palace. To which Sir Macca replied, - that’s a coincidence. I’ve got some Queen albums -. Matthew might have done a little better than 7. Just from knowing some of the albums involved I had 4.

So to Marcus Welsh who was answering on Mickey Mouse Cartoons 1928-35. Will there, I wonder, be any carping among the twitterati that he only had to cover 7 years’ worth of cartoons? I hope not because I imagine there were a large amount produced. I got 2 points to give me a double figure aggregate of 10. Marcus almost managed double figures on his round alone, but finished just short with 9.

I always feel for the contender who has to go first in the GK round having had a disappointing specialist. It must take a lot of determination to compose yourself and go back out there and give it your best. So well done to Phyllis for posting a respectable 8.

Matthew McStea did considerably better than 8. He looked a good bet for a double figure score throughout the round and got over that particular line with enough left over to take his score for the round up to 11. That gave him a competitive 18. Who knows – if he comes back this way in the future with a really competitive SS score, then we might well see him do very well.

Sadly Marcus Welsh could not do very well on his GK round. He scored 4 to take his total to 13. I’m not really sure what went wrong with the round. It didn’t seem to be a case of nerves getting the better of him. Sometimes when you get one wrong it can just set something off in your brain – get another ne wrong straight afterwards and a kind of brain fog can come over you. When you get right down to it, sometimes it just ain’t your night.

I wouldn’t say it was a simple matter then for Peter Glanvill to seal the deal. He still needed 9 for an outright win, and as we’ve seen, anything can happen in a GK round. But there was no fuss or drama in Peter’s round. He calmly and steadily kept answering what he knew and guessing what he didn’t and this was enough to bring him his own double figure round for an overall 20 and the win.

I’ll be honest, this one was a bit of a bread and butter edition of the show- much honest endeavour, but one’s socks remained firmly on one’s feet. Nonetheless, well done Peter – best of luck for the semi final.

The Details

Peter Glanvill	The Jurassic Coast	10	0	10	1	20	1
Phyllis Ramage	The Major Plays of Moliere	4	0	8	1	12	1
Matthew McStea	Queen	7	0	11	0	18	0
Marcus Welsh	Mickey Mouse Cartoons 1928 - 1935	9	1	4	3	13	4

University Challenge Round 1 Harper Adams University v. Strathclyde

The Teams

Harper Adams University

Alastair Ward

Rachel Henderson

John Owen (Capt)

Will Jones

Strathclyde

Matthew Johnston

Kate Lochrie

Jack Stirling (capt)

Tom McHugh

I’ll be honest, I was not previously aware of the existence of Harper Adams University – presumably named after the big guy with the enormous grizzly bear and the enormous beard whose life and times were on ITV on Saturday teatime in the early 80s. They were the first university in Shropshire. Well done! Strathclyde, unlike Harper Adams, has been this way before but have yet t reach their first semifinal. For the first starter the single word title of two gangster films always looked like it was going to be Scarface and this gave Strathclyde captain Jack Stirling his first starter. It would not be lonely for long. Records broken at the 2024 Uefa Men’s football championships brought the first full house of the contest. I’m really a bit surprised that my early lap of hour answer of white noise was not also given by either of the teams. I don’t know how I knew but when Amol asked for the city which Andrew Marvell represented in parliament I thought ‘Hull’. Maybe it was because he mentioned the river Humber in “To His Coy Mistress”, lascivious little devil that he was. The Philip Larkin reference confirmed it and Jack Stirling took his second starter. Cultural figures depicted in works by Salvador ‘Hello’ Dali brought two more bonuses.After both teams sat on their buzzers for a moment Tom McHugh identified the name Mercator with cartography. American molecular biologist Nancy Hopkins provided 3 soporific bonuses of which Strathclyde took none, but I guessed MIT. Harper Adams were in the horrible position already of having seen Strathclyde take so many consecutive starters that they were in danger of just accepting that they were going to be beaten to the buzzer. It called for an early buzz – even an incorrect one – for the next starter to break up the rhythm of the game as much as anything. They didn’t get it. For the picture starter we were shown a federal map of Germany and Jack Stirling identified the highlighted state of Saxony. The bonuses on towns or cities that have ducks named after them  I thought would surely include Aylesbury, and I couldn’t help wondering if the Austrian town of Rubber would also be included. It wasn’t, mainly because I just made it up. Strathclyde did not add to their score, but they had still completed a first period shutout as they led 70-0 at 10 minutes.

The next starter was interesting as an example of a question in which all bar one word could have been removed from it, and someone would still have probably been able to answer it. That word was Solidarity (Solidarnosc in Polish IIRC) and it enabled John Owen to get Harper Adams rolling. They were given a very gettable set on the History of the People’s Republic of China, and they took two. Laphet Tokhe, as well as being the star of one of South east Asia’s least popular sitcoms, is also a Burmese dish that uses tea leaves. Sounds delicious. Rachel Henderson took that one to continue the Harper Adams mini revival. (incidentally, if Victoria Beckham had kept her maiden name, then Harper Adams could have been named after her daughter. Or vice versa.) Film director Kevin Macdonald brought just the one bonus. Jack Stirling took his 4th starter knowing that the Three Mile Island nuclear accident took place in the state of Pennsylvania, or as it nearly became, the ‘Ell of a State of Pennsylvania. ( I do apologise). A gentle bonus set on female protagonists in the Old Testament brought a full house. Nobody recognised Gladys Knight and he Pips for the music starter. Did you know that they were first to have a hit with Heard it through the Grapevine? Oh, you did. Ok. Surprisingly nobody had epigenetics for the next starter. (Don’t be daft, of course I didn’t.)Jack Stirling took starter number five with portraits by Frida ‘Monty’ Kahlo. The music bonuses on three songs played in the first ever series of Soul Train saw Amol hang his head when they gave the answer of Eartha Kitt for Curtis Mayfield on Move On Up. They took none of the bonuses on 54 year old soul. Jack Stirling took a 6^th starter knowing the great triumvirate of golf and it seemed as if Harper Adams were falling back into the mindset that prevented even the Hail Mary early buzz that the situation was calling for. Mataphor and analogy in 20^th century science wins the prize for the most unusual bonus theme in this show and it brought Strathclyde one bonus. Would you believe I had a full house? I have always loved ‘Alice in Wonderland’ which all of the answers referred to. John Owen recognised a description of Iain Banks’ first novel, Gustav Mahler brought 1 bonus. At just after the 20 minute mark Strathclyde led by 120 to 45.

Various clues brought Jack Stirling his 7^th bonus with the adjective Large. I wonder if they would have got to Eddie if we’d had the full question? A set on poetry brought nowt. So to the picture starter which turned out to be starter number 8 got Jack Stirling. He recognised the work of Botticelli.One bonus on other depictions of the Annunciation extended the Strathclyde lead to 100. The northernmost municipality of Germany gave Kate Lochrie her first starter. Cryptic crossword setter bonuses proved to be insoluble. The next starter was basically a long winded way of asking – what is the capital of Spain? – and Tom McHugh won the buzzer race for that one. Italian American physicist, Fermi (who was much more successful than his compatriot, Softi – actually I really am sorry for that one) did at least provide a couple of bonuses. Jack Stirling completed his set of 9 starters with the next on Nitrogen and Hydrogen. The Lake District brought two bonuses to leave Strathclyde teetering on the brink of a double century. Tom McHugh’s answer of Francis Fukuyama saw them cross it. Which was about it. The gong sounded just after the reading of the first bonus. Strathclyde won by 205 – 45.

In all honest this was not a great match at all. That’s the way t goes sometimes. For the record Harper Adams recorded a BCR of33.3% while Strathclyde didn’t do all that much better with 45.1%, but they won so many bonuses even this small advantage was always going to tell.

Amol Watch

“His Dad’s younger than me!” exclaimed a horrified Amal about the youngest scorer at the Euros. You should worry mate. I’m probably old enough to have taught his Grandad.

Amol issued his first encouragement to Harper Adams at 9:26. Did it work? Well, what do you think?

Amol revealed that as well as Bertrand Russell, his hero is Bob Marley. I’d love to have been a fly on the wall for the conversation those two might have had.

Interesting Fact That I didn’t Already Know Of The Week

I have heard of crossword compiler Torquemada, but I didn’t know he was the first to compile a crossword made entirely of cryptic clues. Nice one!

Baby Elephant Walk Moment

With the Latin binomial Danio rerio, what model organism has Hopkins used to study the roles of various genes in development and cancer progression? The organism is so named for the striped patter on its scales.

Repechage Table

Sheffield	170
SOAS	170
New College Oxford	150
Lancaster	145
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Trinity Hall, Cambridge	135
Grenn-Templeton, Oxford	130
Durham	120
Cardiff	115
Linacre, Oxford	115
Newcastle	105
Bath	70