Quizzes

“Some people [were] upset that the final of University Challenge was between two all-male teams, on the grounds that this was ‘sexist’. Really? I live with a man who not only answers more questions on UC every week than I do, he often answers more than most of the contestants combined. Does this make me feel like a dumb blonde? On the contrary, I find the systemising male brain a rich source of comedy. For what does it profit a man to recall the Treaty of Westphalia, yet lose the worming tablets for the cat? He also arranges his books in alphabetic order within chronological. And his proudest boast is that while on holiday in North Wales in 1974, he won a hubcap identification competition. Who could compete with that? Who would want to?”