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The disturbing side of quizzing by Somerville’s Captain

Perhaps the most surreal aspect of appearing on University Challenge is watching how you go down online. My friends and I tracked the response to me on Twitter with a mixture of masturbatory fascination and abject horror, and were met with a sea of creepy, sexually explicit and insulting tweets. I’ve been asked (note “asked”; I’ve not quite reached the heights of self-obsession necessary to propose such a feature) to list my five favourite below, so here they are:

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Being caked in make-up under hot studio lights in a thick jumper clearly didn’t do me any favours.

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HONK. What people think they can infer about your sexual preferences is alarming(ly accurate).

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You could look up “hungry power bottom” but it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The second was an exceptionally creative insult; I was actually trying to smile subtly at my grandma in the audience, but I did look like a bit of a cunt/amphibian so fair.

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Perhaps the creepiest of the tweets, but I’m classing this as being ‘papped’ and thus the start of my ascent to fame.

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