Queen’s in quarter finals of University Challenge- tune in tonight!

Tonight comes the night every Queen’s student has been looking forward to with baited breath. At 8pm we will finally get to witness our very brightest students battle it out against Southampton University in the much awaited quarter-final of University Challenge.

Queen’s last won the famously challenging quiz in 1981 and this years team has been the second to make the quarter finals from Queen’s.

The Queen’s University team of Suzanne Cobain, Gareth Gamble, Joseph Greenwood and Alexander Green with University Challenge host Jeremy Paxman

The team makes for a formidable  opposition, with each specialising in a diverse range of subjects and with team member Gareth Gamble already proving his in depth knowledge of Victoria Sponge cake in the last round. Joseph Greenwood, an Irish Theatre PhD student has said  “Appearing on University Challenge is an amazing and slightly surreal experience” and credits his fellow team mates wide breadth of knowledge on their success so far.

The quarter-final will be shown on BBC2 tonight at 8pm.  Do your bit and tune in, what better way to recover from the shock of our first day back than to watch Jeremy Paxman push students to the very brink of their intellect? Who knows, there’s also the possibility that watching our brilliant braniacs  may  inspire you to actually attend your 9am lectures this term.