Students from Balliol College, Oxford, have been named this year’s champions of University Challenge.
Here are some of the questions they answered to beat the hopefuls from Wolfson Cambridge.
Q: In which city of the Eastern Roman empire did Hypatia teach philosophy?
A: Alexandria
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Q: Associated with the philosopher Plotinus and the supreme principle known as the one, which late school of Greek philosophy did Hypatia espouse?
A: Neoplatonism
Q: Which lower case Greek letter represents in statistics the standard deviation of a…
A: Sigma
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— University Challenge (@UniversityChal) April 10, 2017
Q: Which German philosopher applied Newtonian principles to the Nebular hypothesis in his 1755 work Universal Natural History And Theory Of The Heavens.
A: Immanuel Kant
Q: In Earth science what four-letter term denotes the zone that separates the Earth’s crust from the mantle?
A: Moho
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