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Balliol College; Imperial College London.
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Ian Bayley
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He is largely known as a strong team player winning the European Championships three times straight from 2007 to 2009 with "Broken Hearts" (ft Olav Bjortomt, David Stainer and Mark Grant) and the English national team in 2004. As such his name appears on the Mark Bytheway trophy, being the trophy awarded by the British Quiz Association to its champions. In addition, he has represented the University of Oxford in the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament run by NAQT, one of the world"s foremost buzzer competitions.
His scores compared respectably alongside some of the leading American buzzer quiz players.
He also made an appearance on Who Wants to be a Millionaire as a "phone a friend". In 2012 he was ranked 14 in the world rankings based on performance since 2009 in both the European and World Quiz Championships.
His specialist subjects were Tchaikovsky, Doctor Who in the 1970s, and American Presidents of the 19th century. In the final, he answered questions on paintings in the National Gallery.
Ian Bayley attended Merchant Taylors" School, Crosby near Liverpool.
He studied computing at Imperial College London and then took a Doctor of Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, also in computing. He represented both institutions on University Challenge — Imperial in the 1996-1997 series and Balliol in the 2000-2001 series. He is currently a lecturer in computer science at Oxford Brookes University having previously lectured in the School of Design, Engineering & Computing at Bournemouth University between 2002 and 2004.
As a result of a mispronunciation in Tallinn during the 2005 European Quizzing Championships, he is often known by the nickname of "Iron" Bayley.
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With his double partner Pat Gibson he also won the European pair championships in 2005 and the British Championships (IQA) in 2006 (there are no world championships for teams and pairs, just individuals, so this is the highest possible title). In individual competitions he has thus far won just one title, the British Championship in 2001. In 2010 he won the final of the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 quiz Brain of Britain, scoring more points than the other three contestants put together. In April 2011 he was crowned British Broadcasting Corporation after his win in the show"s 2011 series final (actually recorded in October 2010). He was part of the England side that won the 2004 European Quiz Championships, won the 2005 European Pairs Quiz with Pat Gibson and the Club competition in 2007 to 2009 with his club Broken Hearts (who also play The Quiz League of London). Bayley took part in the 2008-2009 series of and got to the final where he scored 28 points, but was beaten into second place by Nancy Dickmann (30 points), the first female winner for twelve years. He attempted again in 2011, and this time won the final on Friday 15 April 2011, beating Peter Reilly to win the title.
