Jesse Honey
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Quizzing
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| Representing England | ||
British Championships (BQC)
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2010 Derby | Singles |
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2010 Derby | Pairs |
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2012 Lichfield | Singles |
| IQA World Championships | ||
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2012 Lichfield | Singles |
IQA European Championships
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2010 Derby | National Team |
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2010 Derby | Club |
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2011 Bruges | Club |
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2012 Tartu | National Team |
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2013 Liverpool | National Team |
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2013 Liverpool | Singles |
Jesse Honey (born 1977) is an English urban planner and quiz player from
World Quizzing Championship
(individual title) 2012.
Life
Honey, the son of an English father and American mother,
TV / Mastermind
In the 1990s he won Blockbusters.
In the 1998–99 series he lost the semifinal of University Challenge as part of a team from Durham University, who controversially lost to the Open University.[citation needed] He won the Mastermind 2010 series, in the final achieving a record total score of 37 in the John Humphrys era of the programme.
In a further tournament called World Champion Pat Gibson on pass countback (Gibson 36 points, no passes; Honey 36 points, two passes).[2]
Competitive quizzing
He has also won nine English Grand Prix events as of June 2012, made the Top 10 of the
World Quizzing Championships three times straight 2007 to 2009 and in 2010 won a British Quizzing Championships Bronze medal in the individuals and a Silver with partner Sean Carey at pairs. For a long time he stood in the shadows of England's four world champions Kevin Ashman, who holds the overall Mastermind record with 41 points, the aforementioned Gibson, Olav Bjortomt and Mark Bytheway
and thus only made the national squad after Bytheway's premature death in 2010.
In the
European Champions 2007 to 2009 in the line-up Bjortomt, Dr Ian Bayley, Stainer and Mark Grant, the team won Silver in 2010 losing to Kevin Ashman's Milhous Warriors. In pairs he teamed up with Bayley at the EQC 2010, creating a duo of 2010 season winners as Bayley had won Brain of Britain
season 2009/2010 but did not medal. In 2012 he won several British Grands Prix and won the WQC with a world record score.
External links
- Bio at Quizmeisterschaften Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- BBC interview (UK only)
- Norgesquizforbund interview