Burton student enjoys ‘one hell of a victory’ on BBC’s University …
Burton student Dan Grady has shown he has plenty of brain power – after helping his team storm to ‘one hell of a victory’ on BBC’s University Challenge. It was all level between Trinity College Cambridge and Dan’s University of Manchester before the latter buzzed in to get the tie-breaker correct.
And maths student Dan showed he could calculate enough correct answers after successfully buzzing in throughout the popular show to help add up the points. He was joined on the victorious Manchester team by genetics student Bluma De Los Reyes-White, from Massachusetts, Ilya Kullman, of London, who is studying medicine, and captain Hiru Senehedheera, of Letchworth Garden City, who is studying a PhD in materials.
The long-running BBC Two show returned last night (July 17) with new host Amol Rajan after previous quizmaster Jeremy Paxman announced his retirement last year. But it wasn’t the first time teams from Trinity College and Manchester have been on the show with the institutions featuring more than 50 times.
For Dan’s team, the University of Manchester was on the hunt for a record fifth series title with the average age of last night’s team just 22. But despite their younger years, the four students smashed their way through a wide range of challenging questions.
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By the end, both teams were level on 175 points each in what host Amol had branded ‘one hell of a game’. But on the tie-breaker it was captain Hiru who buzzed in to land the crucial answer and seal the win. Amol told the team: “You’ve pulled off one hell of a victory”.
Dan Grady on the show (Image: BBC)
But could you get some of the questions right that Dan had the answer for? The answers are below the questions.
Questions
1) Which Austrian writer-director created the 1997 psychological horror film, Funny Games, which he remade shot for shot in 2007 in English?
2): So named due to band members after staring at their feet as they played, which altern…(Dan buzzed in before the host managed to finish the question)
3): The name coined by Danish linguist Otto Jesperson in 1909 to describe changes in pronunciation of words in English between 1350 and 1700.
4) Published in 1966, which novel begins in Jamaica shortly after the Slavery Abolition Act on a derelict plantation called Coulibri where protagonist Antoinette Cosway… (again, Dan buzzed in before the end of the question)
Dan Grady conferring with his team mates (Image: BBC)
5) The Irish author of The Doctor’s Dilemma, a 1906 play centred around the ethical difficulties of having only finite medical resources. His other works include Widowers’ Houses and Man and Superman.
6) The English author of the Brass Butterfly, a 1958 play set in the third century Rome about a scientist who invents anachronistic weaponry and technology leading to catastrophe. His other works include the novels The Spire and Rites of Passage.
Tie breaker (answered by Hiru): Founded in 1984, in reaction to the lack of gender diversity in the art world, which activist art group created the 1989 poster ‘Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into…’
New host Amol Rajan with Dan Grady’s Manchester team (Image: BBC/Lifted Entertainment, Part of ITV Studios/Ric Lowe)
Answers
1) Michael Haneke
2) Shoegaze
3) The Great Vowel Shift
4) Wide Sargasso Sea
5) Bernard Shaw
6)William Golding
Tie breaker)Guerrilla Girls
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