LONDON (Reuters) – She's being hailed as Britain's cleverest student, a shy, bespectacled and amazingly quick-minded Latin scholar who has romped away to win the country's hardest quiz show almost single-handedly.
Gail Trimble, 26, is playing down the excitement surrounding her team's victory in the annual University Challenge on Monday, but the nation is abuzz at her polymath performance on the quiz, a favourite on TV for nearly 40 years.
Coming from behind, Trimble's four-person team from Corpus Christi college at Oxford University raced away to beat sharp rivals from Manchester by 275-190, with Trimble answering most of the dauntingly difficult questions without hesitation.
It was a typically barnstorming performance from the team captain, who has a tendency to laugh excitedly when she knows the answer, even if she seemed nervous at the start as Manchester moved into the lead and the pressure was on.
"The realm that according to Aristophanes was built by the birds to separate..." the questioner asked, getting only that far before Trimble buzzed to interrupt and correctly answer "Cloud Cuckoo Land" to impressed gasps from the audience.
"Which letter of the alphabet occurs most frequently in the line 'To be or not to be, that is the question?'" she was asked, buzzing immediately to correctly answer 'T'. Her quiz answering technique has been described as "intellectual blitzkrieg."
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