Friday 18-10-2019 - 13:02

Your colleges will be hosting trials for Durham’s University Challenge Tournament, an event that pitches Durham students against each other to find the ultimate quiz champions. Contestants for the BBC’s University Challenge will also be selected from those taking part in the Durham tournament. To find out when your college’s trial is taking place, contact your SU Rep.

We’ll also be hosting trials for the Wild Card team (for any students who can’t make their college trial) in the SU on 23, 24 and 25 October at 16:00-17:00 in Meeting Room 2. You only need to come along to one trial.

To get you in the mood for quizzes, we thought we’d share one of our own. Each question is a clue to one of the sixteen colleges or Dunelm House.

We’ll be posting the answers soon, so keep your guesses to hand if you want to see how well you’ve scored.

DURHAM COLLEGES QUIZ

1.    During the 1966 world cup, the Soviet team apparently stayed at this college whilst playing their games in Sunderland.
2.    There’s a section of roof nicknamed the fish bowl here because it is overlooked by so many windows.
3.    On the college day here, students hold a massive water fight.
4.    This location’s most prominent feature was supposed to be a car park.
5.    Some students from here were so against plans to become a mixed college that they marched on the University’s offices. 
6.    This location used to be the stables for the castle.
7.    Students from here once contacted John Denver for a fresh rendition of Take Me Home before realising he had died in 1997.
8.    The Rolling Stones gave a special concert here.
9.    Parts of this location have since been handed over to Cuth’s and Hatfield.
10.    This college likes to theme things (such as their blog) around trains.
11.    There’s a staircase to nowhere here.
12.    Students used to have to ring the big bell in the gatehouse in order to be let in here if they were back after 22:00.
13.    The namesake of this college met and fell in love with their future spouse at a ball in Durham.
14.    The architect of this building also designed Churchill College, Cambridge.
15.    The second largest parquet floor in Europe is here.
16.    Roger Moore was apparently once a member of this college but denied ever having been…
17.    Long ago, far in the mists of time – no one can say for sure when – a group of intrepid students from this college, or perhaps just one person (the legends differ) stole the Hatfield Lion from deep within its college grounds. On its safe arrival at the college, stripes were painted onto this lion turning it into the mightier tiger. And thus, this college’s mascot was born.