Chlo Spinks

Chlo Spinks
Noted subjects	Music, Pop Culture, Psychology, Niche Literature
Past colleges	Oxford Brookes (2018-2022)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Chlo Spinks was the omnipresent Social Sec for both Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities during her 2018-2022 Business and Marketing Management degree.

She is known for trailblazing such events as Drink Talk Learn (DTL), Who Posted That, and Jungle Quiz, and alternative quiz structures such as Music Stem Addition, Movie Movie Mashup, Uneducated Guess, and many more.

Background

Growing up Jewish in London, Chlo was overly involved and enthusiastic from a young age. Running Jewish summer camps for over 8 years, having a nationally recognised online presence, and auditioning for record labels created a concoction of a woman with safeguarding training, a belief that with enough determination you can achieve anything, and the enthusiasm to commit a bit too hard to the bit.

Chlo is also a music writer for magazines such as Gigwise and RIOT and is always open for commissions.

Quiz career

Chlo has played both for Oxford and against them with Oxford Brookes. Notable highlights include playing on Oxford's committee team during varsity, helping them to secure the win, achieving a second bracket place at BSQC with Brookes, and consistently first lining Pride and Prejudice. Pub Quiz achievements include multiple wins at the Gardeners Arms and Big Society.

As the Social Sec of both Oxford and Oxford Brookes Chlo focussed on bringing them together for events such as Drink Talk Learn (DTL) and Jungle Quiz. This has notably created memorable moments such as Mehmet Tatoğlu wrestling a catgirl maid and the infamous metal-band-names-to-boat evening.

Credits

Writing and Tournament Directing

• Chaos Quiz 1
• Chaos Quiz 2
• Chaos Quiz 3
• Trashtourn 5000
• NOW: That's What I Call A Tournament
• STEM Tournament
• Chalamity Packet(s)
• OUQS Mixed
• Various Unnamed

Tournament Directing

• 2021 Last Chance Saloon
• 2021 ACF Winter

Notes

• Tom can usually be spotted at quiz tournaments wearing one of his signature dark-blue Oxford Brookes Racing polo shirts. He owns three of them.
• As a player, Tom is known for his low power and neg counts. This characteristic is exemplified by his statslines of 7/57/0 at 2017 BSQC and 48/0 at 2017 ACF Fall.
• Out of 17 tossups on four-wheeled motorsport Tom has heard in a competitive setting, he has successfully converted 15. Of the remaining two, one could not be converted by his motorsport-knowledge rival Edmund Dickinson due to the moderator reading the answerline aloud before the neg, and the other was made before Tom realised the tossup was on motorsport while playing on the same team as Edmund. As a result, Tom claims to have never been beaten to a four-wheel motorsport tossup, and Edmund Dickinson has never converted a motorsport tossup while in the same room as Tom.
• Tom regularly competes in various quiz formats, including the Quiz League of London and written Grand Prix quizzes. Based on results from the World Quizzing Championships, Tom lays claim to being the best quizzer to come from Wallonia, by virtue of being the only one.