Gail Trimble - University Challenge Champ 2009 - Super Brain's team disqualified!

In the Grand Final of the student quiz, the University of Manchester take on Corpus Christi College, Oxford in a bid to become series champions. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.
The BBC has disqualified the winners of University Challenge for breaking the rules by using a contestant who was no longer a student.

The title has been transferred to the University of Manchester, who were beaten by Corpus Christi College, Oxford on the TV quiz last week.

By the time the final was filmed Sam Kay, from Surrey, was working as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr Kay has apologised and said "it was never my intention to mislead anyone."

University Challenge champion Gail Trimble is being pursued by a lads' magazine for a 'tasteful photoshoot', she revealed today.
The star of the Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has caught the attention of TV quiz fans - and now no lesser bible than Nuts magazine.
The 26-year-old told BBC Breakfast: 'Would you believe it, my brother received a Facebook message from Nuts yesterday morning saying 'can we have your sister's email address, we want her to do a tasteful shoot'.
'So of course he sent them an answer saying, "Seriously mate, would you give your sister's contact details to Nuts?"'
Corpus Christi triumphed over Manchester University to be crowned winners of the competition, achieving victory by 275 points to 190 in the grand final of the BBC2 show.
Much of the team's success has been down to Ms Trimble, who scored two-thirds of her team's 1,200 points before the final.
Her vast knowledge, likened to an 'intellectual blitzkrieg', stunned even host Jeremy Paxman.
However some of the reaction has not been so pleasant, with hostile comments posted on blogs early on in the series.
She said she had not encountered such problems at school or university.
'Suddenly there's this thing that involves being in the public eye, and I find all this reaction to me, and I'm sure this wouldn't be the case if I wasn't a woman.'
It did not appear that Latin scholar Ms Trimble would be taking up any offers of photoshoots.
'It is nice when people are saying nice things about my appearance, and not nasty things, but it's sad that they feel it necessary to say things about my appearance at all.'
Asked what she would do next, she said she was working on her D. Phil.
'I'm coming towards the end of it, finishing within the next year, then an academic job, hopefully, that's what I want to do.'

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[Billinghaylad1976]

Leave her alone. Why do people mock those that are bright, whilst celebrating those who are dumb? We should be pleased that there are still people in this country with her intellect.

[adventlife]

CORPUSCHIRSTITRIMBLE!

That voice over guy got quite carried away.

[mgblue]

if i remember right the rest of her team were idiots lol

[1davidcampbell]

What an amazing girl!

[blehface3000]

CORPUSCRISTITRIMBLE!

[ErrrrrrRia]

What a girl! She is amazing, i wish i could have her knowledge!

[a2kr]

She outshone her team members 10 to 1, yet is still humble enough to say they all played well and she only did well because of her subject. This is what you call sportsmanship. It's a shame, in Britain, we value naked and dumb ladies with no talent - Cheryl, Jade, Kate, Jordan - to name a few..

[binlaydoff]

@PwnedDuck so agree

[DiabloMercy]

smart

[PwnedDuck]

@Bud1UK I don't want to live on this planet anymore



[skegpit]

I'd go for her.

[RelativelyHostile1]

the voice over guy is my hero ;)