{"id":703,"date":"2009-02-26T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2009-02-26T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T15:28:28","slug":"gail-trimble-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Gail Trimble Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in the UK we have a TV show called University Challenge<\/a> where teams of students from British Universities compete in a general knowledge quiz.\u00a0 I don’t watch it often but when I do I usually feel very pleased with myself if I manage to answer more than a couple of questions or so – my general knowledge isn’t anywhere near as good as I would like it to be.<\/p>\n

The most recent series of the show was won by a team from Oxford’s Corpus Christi College<\/a> but the star of the show was undoubtedly 26 year old Gail Trimble who has been heralded as possibly the greatest contestant in the show’s history. Jeremy Paxman, the show’s host, referredto her performance as an \u201cintellectual blitzkrieg”<\/a>.\u00a0 I haven’t seen any of the shows she was in but I have read accounts and I am deeply impressed<\/strong> by the breadth and depth of this woman’s knowledge.<\/p>\n

The reason I am bringing this up is up is because of the amount of people who have vilified her both online and in print.\u00a0\u00a0 As far as I can tell, the principal complaint is that she knows too much and that annoys people.\u00a0 That’s right….she has been ridiculed for being clever<\/a>!\u00a0 How depressing.<\/p>\n

Well Gail, on the faint off chance that you are reading this\u00a0 I would like to congratulate you and your team for so soundly ‘opening a can of whup-ass’ on Manchester (The University that employs me for those who don’t know).\u00a0 I salute you and in the spirit of the fabled Chuck Norris<\/a> (and Jon Skeet<\/a> of Stack Overflow fame) I offer the following Gail Trimble ‘facts’.<\/p>\n