Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Monday, 10 April 2017

IQ Masters

Another tight contest on TV as the final of University Challenge pitted Balliol (Oxford) against Wolfson (Cambridge), teams I had become familiar with over the weeks due to the convenient scheduling of the programme on BBC2 between the two episodes of Coronation Street on ITV; Balliol won out but the real fun is in getting a correct answer yourself (I’m happy with three or four in the half hour) particularly if neither team know it – score one to me last night as I correctly, and appropriately, guessed the author attributed with the first use of the word ‘nerd’, thanks to my long term study, or at least repeated reading to three children, of the works of the man: Dr Seuss.

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