University Challenge was the worst exam I have ever done

Examinations are the hallmark of medical education, and I hated every one. So why volunteer for another exam, with inevitable, predictable, public failure? Because it is iconic, because I am now in my f**k-it fifties, because life is short, work is hard, and this could also be frivolous fun—and fun should remain important. Further, this was Jeremy Paxman’s last series of University Challenge, and my household has a standing WhatsApp group to show off their answers. Others in my family score high teens and early twenties. I am lucky if I get perhaps two in total. I ummed and aaahed, torn by the potential outcomes of hilarity and humiliation. My husband, whose loyalty has never been in doubt, encouraged: “You should definitely do it. You don’t know anything about modern culture, sport, geography, history, or art, or . . . medicine . . . but, still, you should definitely do…
Read Original Article: University Challenge was the worst exam I have ever done »