Cambridge

Overview

The Cambridge Quiz Society is the official quiz bowl team for the University of Cambridge, located in sunny Cambridge in England. Though the facebook membership numbers in the 100s, only about 20 people come to practice consistently. The official twitter account can be found here.

History

While the history of Cambridge University is filled with success and glory, the history of its Quiz Bowl team is not. The Cambridge Quiz Bowl team has just recently achieved its first victory over Oxford, a success motivated primarily by strong players like Sam Cook and Elysia Warner. Unfortunately, due to a serious back injury sustained by Elysia and Sam Cook's graduation, this is unlikely to be repeated.

Performances

A strong core of "novice" players contributed to success at the 2016 VCU Novice tournament in london.

Cambridge teams additionally performed very well at MTU with all 4 Cambridge temas handily defeating a strong Oxford A and an upset with Cambridge B defeating Cambridge A.

At 2016 ACF Fall's UK site, Cambridge A cleared the field taking both a strong Oxford A and a strong Oxford B to pound town. Notable negs included Elysia Warner buzzing with beethoven after only hearing "this composer". A new Cambridge A composition revealed to other teams that it is, in fact, big boy season.

Hosted Tournaments

• Penn Bowl 2016

• MUT 2016

• Cambridge Open 2017

Notable Players

• Ewan MacAuley, a strong physics and chemistry player whose skills were sharpened by playing at Oxford as an undergraduate, and dulled by playing at Cambridge as a PhD student.

• Sam Cook, a geography specialist

• Florence Chen, since graduated, a harvard undergraduate who played while getting a master's degree. Played at VCU Novice despite not being a novice.

• Tomas Kesek, since graduated, a strong player who despite being a physician by training failed to get biology questions

• Oliver Sweetenham, a top tier literature and history player specializing in the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Elysia Warner † a strong linguist cut down in her prime in a dispute over time limits during a practice session. Specialized in creoles and the musical Hamilton. A fan of the transcendentalist works of William Cullen Bryant

• Matthew Nixon, a musical and mathematical savant

• Daniel Chiverton, a specialist in mathematics, religion, and westerosi politics

• Ephraim Jacob-Jacobus Levinson, a fiesty competitor who studies the works of Steven Wallace

• Tom Hill, a disciple of the famous quizzer Bobby Seagull who specializes in Sicilian religious persecution between 1120 and 1129

• Bobby Seagull, whose twitter can be found here

• Theo Howe, a trash and east asia specialist

• Vitalijs Brejevs, a musical scholar studying the works of Stravinsky

• Julian Sutcliffe, a fan of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

• Sarah Binney, a physicist turned philosopher and one of the pub quiz managers