Gail Christiana Trimble (born 1982), is a fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. While a postgraduate student of Latin literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009, she gained attention by a series of exceptional performances on the BBC television quiz programme University Challenge, where she captained the Corpus Christi team from the second round and scored a notably high proportion of the team's points.
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Gail Christiana Trimble (born 1982), is a fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. While a postgraduate student of Latin literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009, she gained attention by a series of exceptional performances on the BBC television quiz programme University Challenge, where she captained the Corpus Christi team from the second round and scored a notably high proportion of the team's points.
In the final — which was broadcast on 23 February 2009 and watched by more than 5 million viewers, the show's highest audience share since at least 2001—Trimble scored 125 points in the last four minutes to lead her team to apparent victory. However, a week after the final was broadcast, her team was disqualified after an investigation revealed that her teammate, Sam Kay, finished studying at Corpus Christi while the series was being recorded.
She was described in the British press as a "TV quiz phenomenon" and the "human Google", and by a defeated contestant as a...
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