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So Mark Damazer, former Controller of Radio 4 and current Master of St Peter's, Oxford, powered Gonville & Caius, Cambridge to victory in Christmas University Challenge.  He took 50 points in starters, out of a total of 175, with answers on Radetzky, Graham Greene, Shakespeare's various Antonios, Lord Russell and the Berlin Wall.

There were lacunae. Sherlock Holmes needs re-reading, and he should re-visit the difference between left and right, at least in terms of England's 1966 World Cup-winning full-backs.

Now, surely, onto Brain of Britain. Mr Davies giving Mr Damazer a go at the silent buzzer would be fun.