There have\u00a0been hundreds of miles of accumulated column inches produced about the 2009 season of the British quiz programme ‘University Challenge’.<\/p>\n
The primary reason for many of the column miles – in the run up to the final – was Gail Trimble, a leading member of the Corpus Christi (Oxford University) team, one of the two teams of finalists.<\/p>\n
In the (media inspired) hype running up to the final Gail was dubbed ‘The Human Google’ because of her ability to regurgitate facts and figures with the speed of a savant.<\/p>\n
An idiot savant, perhaps.<\/p>\n
You’ll see, in a moment, why I make what many outsiders may feel to be such an unkind statement.<\/p>\n
The secondary reason for a similar amount of column miles was the post-Final revelation that one of the Corpus Christi team (Sam Kay) had left student life (even though he had stated in the Final that he was studying chemistry) and had taken up employment as a trainee accountant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.<\/p>\n
Naturally it didn’t take the mainstream media long to unearth this deception and the Corpus Christi team have been stripped of their 2009 Season Championship title for failing the eligibility test.<\/p>\n
And there, as Shakespeare would have put it, is the rub – the point of the title to this post.<\/p>\n
Sam Kay, a member of the Corpus Christi University Challenge Team that won (and a week later lost) the 2009 Season Championship may have been bright<\/em>, but he wasn’t very intelligent was he?<\/p>\n But let’s not forget one thing.<\/p>\n The Team Captain for Corpus Christi must<\/em> have known about Sam Kay’s change in circumstance too, no? I find it incredible to believe that this could not have been the case.<\/p>\n And who was the Team Captain for Corpus Christi?<\/p>\n Step forward Gail Trimble, aka ‘The Human Google’.<\/p>\n As the title of this post has it once again, being ‘bright’ does not mean being ‘intelligent’ and this leads back to\u00a0my earlier reference of Gail perhaps being\u00a0an idiot savant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have\u00a0been hundreds of miles of accumulated column inches produced about the 2009 season of the British quiz programme ‘University Challenge’. The primary reason for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}