{"id":677,"date":"2015-11-30T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=677"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:25:09","slug":"the-tax-dodgers-claim-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2015\/11\/30\/the-tax-dodgers-claim-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Tax Dodgers&#8217; claim victory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School held its second annual\u00a0pub quiz on 26 November in Origins. The event was a great success and saw some 20 teams entering;\u00a0a mix of both staff and students, with some highly\u00a0inventive names such as &#8216;Kent Stop Quizzing&#8217;, &#8216;The Hedge Fund Ninjas&#8217;, &#8216;The Keynesianators&#8217;,\u00a0&#8216;Quizzee Rascals&#8217; and &#8216;The Archbishop of Banterbury&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bill Collier did a great job as MC and\u00a0questionmaster for the evening,\u00a0using his invigilation skills to look out for cheating, his examiner skills during\u00a0the peer-marking and, of course, his maths in the totalling of the scores!<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations go to this year&#8217;s\u00a0winners (in reverse order):<\/p>\n<p>3rd &#8230; &#8216;Our Drinking Team has a Trivia Problem&#8217;<br \/>\n2nd &#8230; &#8216;The Archbishop of Banterbury&#8217;<br \/>\n1st &#8230; &#8216;The Tax Dodgers&#8217;!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Tax Dodgers&#8217; were presented with the first prize of\u00a0\u00a3100 worth of vouchers, School of Economics hoodies and a bottle of champagne.\u00a0Thanks\u00a0to everyone who took part and made it such a great night &#8211;\u00a0you can take a look at the photos on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.921032461320596.1073741834.315780165179165&amp;type=3\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Facebook page<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School held its second annual\u00a0pub quiz on 26 November in Origins. The event was a great success and saw some 20 teams entering;\u00a0a mix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2015\/11\/30\/the-tax-dodgers-claim-victory\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}