Olav Bjortomt
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Olav Bjortomt is one of the UK's most respected Quiz players. He was the winner of the 2003 World Quizzing Championships.
He works for The Times newspaper in London and has set the daily Times2 quiz since July 2005. In 2001 Bjortomt was joint winner of The Guardian's overall Student Journalist of the Year award.
He has appeared on Fifteen to One four times, finishing as a series runner-up in 2002. He captained the University of Nottingham team to the quarter-finals in the 1999/2000 series of BBC's University Challenge. When he appeared on the Channel 4 quiz show Grand Slam in 2003, he was described by one commentator as the "Wayne Rooney of the quiz world."
He is half Filipino and half Norwegian.
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