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* [[Character Tics]]: Gail Trimble was noted for smiling and flicking her hair every time she got a starter right (which was a lot), another contestant would take a drink of water every time he buzzed-in correctly, and the unfortunate [http://lystellion.livejournal.com/84288.html Jacob Funnell] got told off by Paxman for adopting a pose resembling Rodin's ''The Thinker'' whenever he was conferring.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses|Contestants Are Geniuses]]: The questions are really, ''really'' difficult. Of course, it appears that some contestants actually ''are'' geniuses, given how much they can get right.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Corpus Christi, Oxford vs. the University of Exeter in 2009, although that [[Canon
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Jeremy Paxman.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Corpus Christi, Oxford won the 2008-09 contest under the leadership of the famously incredibly knowledgeable Gail Trimble, but were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player in the final. Said player apparently put down the date his course was going to end on the entry sheet, but none of the producers questioned the fact that it ended before the competition. Furthermore, the 2008 and 2004 winning teams had one ineligible player each, but no one got disqualified on either of those. This led to all sorts of controversy over the ambiguity of the rules and annoyance at the producers, with whom the responsibility to check these things lies. It wasn't a particularly happy ending for the Manchester team who were given the title instead, as one of them commented that they didn't really feel like they'd won.
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* [[Insufferable Genius]]: A surprisingly popular view of Gail Trimble. Also, George Woudhuysen, captain of the 2009-10 St. John's Oxford team was considered this by a lot of people, probably primarily due to his habit of nodding to his teammates when he got something right.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Jeremy Paxman may be a tad on the belligerent side, but he's usually pretty good about consoling the teams who lose and is apparently a fairly welcoming guy in person.
* [[Level Five Onix]]: Despite being supposedly the United Kingdom's top universities, Oxford and Cambridge teams can be anywhere from astoundingly knowledgeable to utterly hopeless. For years the lowest score achieved under Paxman was by New Hall, Cambridge (35 points), and since the 2009 Corpus Christi, Oxford vs. Exeter match [[Canon
** You say that... it ''was'' a semi-final
* [[Long Runners]]: Just look at the dates above.
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