Friday 19 August 2022 05:46 PM Amol Rajan's University Challenge nightmare! New host got 14/18 answers ... trends now

Incorrect answers:

1. Which British painter created the Triptych, that sold for more than $84m dollars in an online auction in 2020?

Amol passed – correct answer was Francis Bacon. 

2. An installation piece entitled The End resembling a swirl of cream with a cherry on top appeared on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth in July 2020. Who created it?  

Amol answered Mark Wynne – correct answer was Heather Phillipson. 

3. Which scientist created a gas combustion device with a metal collar to regulate airflow? 

Amol passed - correct answer was Bunsen (Bunsen burner). 

4. For your picture starter you’ll see a map of Texas: name the city?

Amol buzzed in, answered Austin – correct answer was Houston. 

5. From which Shakespeare play is the line ‘At Christmas I no more desire a rose. Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows’? 

Amol answered The Tempest – correct answer was Love’s Labour’s Lost.

6. Identify the locations of these US places in which events in the Virginia Slims women’s tennis tour took place? 

Amol answered Delaware first – correct answer was Philadelphia. 

7. Amol passed on the second. 

8. Give the names of these birds from a description: Amol answered yellowhammer - correct answer was goldfinch. 

9. Amol was timed out - correct answer was long tailed tit. 

10. Amol passed - correct answer was house sparrow. 

11. Name the book titles from the cover art: 

Amol passed – correct answer was Anatomy of a Murder. 

12. Amol passed – correct answer was Bonjour Tristesse

13. Named after a Canadian educational theorist, which proposition states that in a hierarchy each employee tends to rise to the level of their incompetence?

Amol answered Maslow - correct answer was Peter

14. Comet black telescope, lionhead and shubunkin are common breeds of what freshwater fish? 

Amol answered tuna - correct answer was goldfish. 

Correct answers:

1. Who wrote ‘It snowed last year too! I made a snowman and then my brother knocked it down. Then I knocked my brother down. Then we had tea’. 

Amol answered Dylan Thomas. 

2. In September 2020, Essex beat Somerset to win a trophy named after which England pace bowler. 

Amol answered Bob Willis. 

3. Name the book titles from the cover

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