In the last essay, which I highly suggest reading before this, I mentioned how University Challenge is widely known as the world’s hardest quiz. I may as well tell you now how you should go about trying to win University Challenge.  Sure, the quiz is insanely hard, but here’s the thing: the questions themselves are not actually that hard. The quiz appears to be so hard because the questions appear to be random facts that you could only know about a topic if it’s your life’s work. And indeed, the questions appear to induce knowledge flows that are actually quite…

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