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2026-03-31 18:07 UTC

RE: https://mas.to/@kityates/116322494087080473 When i was an undergrad my Uni had the bright idea of entering individual colleges in University Challenge seemingly not realising that if a third of us were Oxbridge bright but unlucky, that meant two thirds of us ... weren't. As a result I competed in our college team in the pre telly phase. I am not a quizzer, and was probably not the best pick for this, but when you split your pool in that way ... I got all the maths questions wrong because I thought the answers couldn't possibly be that easy. I don't think they expect their constituency to be mathematicians.

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  • @chiffchaff@tech.lgbt 2026-04-01 09:37

    @sesquipedality@mendeddrum.org The chemistry ones always seem to be very easy. I studied chemistry a bit, but I'm in no way an expert in it any more than many other subjects, but it seems a bit unbalanced to me. Maybe chemistry is one of those niche subjects that no one really knows very much about unless you're an actual chemistry student?

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