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QuizSoc Committee (2005-06)

You can contact the committee by sending us an e-mail.


Stephen Fry (Honorary President)

To be patron of QuizSoc represents for me the summit of an otherwise flabby and inconsequential career. I boast to all my friends about this role and gloat with pleasure as they claw the air in frothing envy.

Enjoy your membership of this august sodality. Remember that the Battle of Bannockburn was fought in 1314 and that Wilhelm Roentgen pioneered X-Ray photography and you really cannot go wrong. Remember too that I love you desperately.

Picture of Stephen Fry
Picture of Hayley West, QuizSoc President 2005-6 Hayley Griffith (President)
Jon Griffith (Treasurer) Jon is married.
No really!
...we can't believe it either.
Picture of Jon Griffith, QuizSoc Treasurer 2005-6
Picture of Christopher Handscomb, QuizSoc Secretary 2005-6 Christopher Handscomb (Secretary)

Christopher attempts to bring an element of Latin flair to the quiz society committee. Sadly, he generally finds himself constrained by the conventions of quizzing to writing questions on Motown and Public Transport. Find out more about Christopher at his own website.

Jacob Hupart (International Affairs) Picture of Jacob Hupart, QuizSoc International Affairs 2005-6
Picture of Paul Beecher, QuizSoc Intelligence Consultant 2005-6 Paul Beecher (Intelligence Officer) Paul is presently in exile. Any thoughts he may have had of fleeing to faraway, sunnier, climes were trumped by the attraction of Cambridge's quiz culture.
Joshua Karton (Legal Adviser) Joshua Karton is the committee's resident shyster. A member of the New York State Bar, he enjoys eating, drinking, and beating his friends at Trivial Pursuit. Genus Edition only, please.
Sean Blanchflower (Emeritus Member) As the society's emeritus committee member, Sean is not so much retired from quizzing as being pensioned off. Alas he peaked too early in his career when he won 'University Challenge' with Trinity as an undergrad, and after several poundings by Oxford founded the Quiz Society here to help exact revenge. He is now Head of Research in a Cambridge software company and emerges annually to help read questions in the ICC.

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