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Twitter competition winners announced

21 June 2011

To celebrate universities week (13-19 June) UCL News ran a competition on twitter to find the best piece of trivia about UCL.

We asked our twitter followers to submit their facts about UCL of 140 characters or less, and using the hash tag #UCLtrivia. We were looking for facts that reflect the whole range of activities and personalities of UCL. Research findings, celebrity visits, weird artefacts - the more eclectic the better!

We had a great response from the 4,500 people who follow @uclnews on twitter. In the end, the winning entry went to Charlotte Frearson from the UCL Institute of Archaeology who astounded us by unveiling the relationship between labs in her institute and the famous film character Indiana Jones.

Many thanks to everyone who entered.  The winning #UCLtrivia tweets are as follows:

1st Prize
Charlotte Frearson (@loftroll)
#UCLtrivia Labs in UCL Inst. of Archaelology were funded, in part, by the sale of Indiana Jones' hat and whip from Harrison Ford himself!

2nd Prize
UCL Advances (@UCLAdvances)
#UCLtrivia The internet became international when UCL became the first place to connect to it outside of the US

3rd Prize
Professor Paul Driscoll (@pcdriscoll)
#UCLtrivia Chas Darwin wrote that he liked living on Gower St (site of Darwin Bldg) because it was 'so quiet' (!)

Special mentions go to the following entries:

  • Alisha Riseley (@foxlingua)@uclnews UCL's motto translates as 'Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward' #UCLtrivia
  • UCL Advances (@UCLAdvances)#UCLtrivia UCL's Professor Jack Drummond coined the name 'vitamin' and was the first to propose the existence of Vitamin C.
  • Dyah Widiastuti (@dyahwie)#ucltrivia UCL was the first secular-based university in the UK
  • UCL Advances (@UCLAdvances)#UCLtrivia After the General Election of 6 May 2010, the House of Commons contains eight alumni of UCL.
  • Schrodinger's Kitten (@schrodingerskit)#UCLtrivia Cheese Grater Magazine spearheaded Cash For Tache, and it raised £1,500! http://bit.ly/lwKRdE
  • Dr Gail Davies (@gailfdavies)#UCLtrivia The lost portrait of surgeon Marcus Beck used to 'haunt' UCLH, with hospital staff covering it each night

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