university challenge – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:47:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg university challenge – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Where work does improve your mind… https://shepline.com/2009/02/23/where-work-does-improve-your-mind/ https://shepline.com/2009/02/23/where-work-does-improve-your-mind/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:47:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/where-work-does-improve-your-mind/ It’s not often that I can say that work has actually improved my mind. Like Corpus Christie in the University Challenge final, I came from behind in the last five minutes of the contest to storm through with success. In my case it was just three correct answers but I think that it might have been three in a row! 🙂 One of the questions was where does the prefix petro come from, as in…

I shouted out rock! And I was right. I only know this because after months of working on the Journal of Petrology archive I actually found out what the hell Petrology meant. And hey, it got me a UC point!

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