This week,Oscar Powell wowed viewers with his exaggerated facial expressions, becoming the latest contestant to be jokily lauded as a future prime minister. But what became of the last four headline-making eggheads?Fingers on the buzzer. Heres your starter for 10: who is the most current University Challenge contestant? The acknowledge this week has to be Oscar Powell, and a suit-wearing geological-science student with Boris Johnson hair,from Peterhouse College, Cambridge, or whose exaggerated facial expressions absorb earned him a legion of online fans. Asked to identify Je T’aime by Serge Gainsbourg,he stuck out his tongue, screwed up his face, and bit his hand and scratched his head. As one Twitter admirer told him,he won “not only #universitychallenge but the nation.
Of course, Powell is not the first contestant to become an overnight sensation after appearing on the show. But what happened to other breakout stars?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com