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# I read something about Corpus Christi - Oxford
and even though this guy was not a student at the time of the finals the girl (I think it was Trimble) accounted for 66% or so of all the correct answers so she could have carried them even without the non-student bloke.

www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?University_Challenge_not_very_challenging_for_Gail&in_article_id=553208&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=
(, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 20:56, archived)
# I think that is crap
yes she knew pretty much everything but as the team captain answers most of the questions you can't really accredit all the points to her.
(, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 20:57, archived)
# I don't watch University Challenge was just something I read in the Metro
(, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 21:03, archived)
# It was the story I was ranting at.
Had you watched it you would have seen that on numerous occasions she turned to the girl next to her to nod that they both knew the answer. Had she not been the team captain the percentage may not have been so high.

edit: admittedly I haven't read the article.
(, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 21:08, archived)