The last Schools Challenge quiz

[raven]

Firstly, Bristol have given me a conditional offer, AAB with A in Chem. I would like to take a long-hoped for minute to be smug. They said it couldn't done. They said I was crazy. But I've done it. As UCAS are now telling me, I have conditional offers for PPE at Oxford and Medicine at a top medical school off the same UCAS form in the same year. I've done it.

Sigh.

Moving on to less momentous topics, there is the schools quiz. Which was this afternoon, and very much of the fun. Everything went off as planned, and my team and I sat down for our first match at about two thirty. And we lost it. But it's nothing like when I was in Lower Five; we lost by about a hundred points (as opposed to six hundred formerly) and sat out for the next match. The team that lost that one played us, and we totally thrashed them, eight hundred to five hundred. Somewhere near the end we got onto a roll, getting four or five starters in a row and all the bonuses. Fab.

It was only afterwards that I started getting depressed. My last year as captain! I'll never do this again. "Unless you get onto University Challenge," Mrs Colvin said solemnly, and I laughed.

This year's best howlers:

Quizmaster: What holiday is celebrated in Russia on January 7th?

Caldy captain: (in all seriousness) May Day.

QM: What country do the Faroe Islands belong to?

Me: Denmark.

QM: Where would one eat smorgasbord?

Me: Denmark.

QM: What nation was Britain at war with in the late eighties?

Me: ...Denmark?

Nul points.

QM: And for your bonuses, Merchants' - spellings.

Me, team, Mrs C: *hysterics*

Gayathri: Can I do these?

All: *on floor*

[Lest we should forget, Gayathri is officially Britain's best speller.]

QM: In Red Dwarf, what character was played by Chris Barrie?

Me: Rimmer.

QM: Christian names?

Me: Arnold Judas.

All: *blink*

Lastly -

QM: What did PG Wodehouse's initials stand for?

Some bloke on other team: PARENTAL GUIDANCE!

So we didn't win, but we didn't lose disgracefully.

Anyway. I got home, watched The Fifth Race and am shortly to watch Moebius. Was thinking about going off on a small rant about the British school system, as I have been asked to do so, but that will come later. Right now I think coffee may be in order.

Comments

[apestaartje.livejournal.com]

Bristol have given me a conditional offer
Congratulations! ::dances:: What's PPE again?

What country do the Faroe Islands belong to?
Me: Denmark.
You got no points for that? I also thought they belonged to Denmark.

QM: Where would one eat smorgasbord?
I would've said Norway for some reason.
Other option would be: a restaurant. They have to give you points for that.

QM: What nation was Britain at war with in the late eighties?
Part of me wants to say Argentina and the other part of me wants to say Falkland Islands. lol

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

PPE - Philosophy, Politics and Economics. *joins in dancing*

Yes, we got points for the Faroe Islands. Nothing else! Smorgasbord is from Sweden and we were at war with Argentina!

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

MUMS LETTING ME WATCH IT yahoooooooo Daniels well....you sure theres slash? Is it early on? I saw the bit where he kept grabbin him

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

That's cute! Later on, yes. Slash.

[tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com]

Firstly, Bristol have given me a conditional offer, AAB with A in Chem. I would like to take a long-hoped for minute to be smug. They said it couldn't done. They said I was crazy. But I've done it. As UCAS are now telling me, I have conditional offers for PPE at Oxford and Medicine at a top medical school off the same UCAS form in the same year.

That's amazing! Fantastic!

Errrr...what's an AAB? What's an A? What's a PPE and what's a conditional offer?

(As an American, of course, the first thing I think is "Go to Oxford! Go to Oxford!" Because it's all old and venerable and shit.)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Venerable, indeed! Oxford will be my first choice when I come to accepting/declining these.

Okay - A is a grade at A-level (they go down to E, and after that you fail). A-levels (actually, AS/A2 levels) are board exams you take when you finish school, and usually you do three subjects (I'm doing four).

Bristol will accept me to their course if I get an A, another A, and a B in my A-levels. Hence the fact the offer is conditional - if I don't get the grades, I don't get the offer.

It's complex, I know. I actually plan to make a post explaining the concept.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

You? Rock the great green earth.

(Pelham Grenville, by the way. *grins*)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*g* Thank you!

And yes, consider me enlightened. No-one knew the answer. It was embarrassing. :)

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

You are the best!
You are going to go PPE, right?
Yay schools challenge! Yay you!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Oh, yes, PPE. Definitely.

And yay you for the University of Alberta! You rock. :)

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Have I said thanks for your yay? If I haven't, then, thanks!
Next year is going to be exciting and full of changes for both of us, I think.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the uni!!
xx