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'''Brendan Bethlehem''', aka '''bweb'''<ref>The concatenation of his initials, Brendan William Evaristos Bethlehem, which has been noted for its humorous sound. He sometimes goes by B. W. E. Bethlehem.</ref>, is a quizbowl player who studies Linguistics at [[Cambridge]] and is the incumbent President of the Cambridge University Quiz Society. From North London and educated at the extremely posh Westminster School, he is noted for being able to buzz well on almost all the distribution and for having a humourous surname.
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'''Brendan Bethlehem''', aka '''bweb''', is a quizbowl player who studies Linguistics at [[Cambridge]] and is the current President of the Cambridge University Quiz Society. From North London and educated at the extremely posh Westminster School, he is noted for being able to buzz well on almost all the distribution and for having a humorous surname.
  
 
==University Career==
 
==University Career==
  
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Brendan took an unorthodox approach to the start of his quizbowl career by playing the 3-dot [[Penn Bowl]] as his first tournament. At that tournament he posted a characteristic statline of 6/6/8. Throughout the rest of the 2023/24 he played various tournaments on both Cambridge A and B, most notably leading Cambridge B to the top bracket at the [[2024 British Student Quiz Championships]]. He was also the top scorer of the team that won the 2024 Cambridge Intercollegiate Quiz, and was elected Vice-President of CUQS.
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Brendan started playing quizbowl in the 2023/24 season, starting with Penn Bowl and then playing various tournaments on both Cambridge A and B, garnering a reputation for powering a lot and negging even more. Most notably he led Cambridge B to the top bracket at the [[2024 British Student Quiz Championships]], narrowly losing to Imperial A after a protest was resolved in Imperial's favour.
  
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It was one of the most impressive debut seasons in UK quizbowl history, with [[Thomas Hart]] stating that Brendan was "the best new player to have come onto the circuit in my four years on it" and [[Andrew Fisher]] describing him as "the best new quizbowl player the UK has had since [[Seoan Webb]]". In the 2023/24 UK Player Poll, Brendan placed 16th on the overall ranking and dominated the newcomers ranking, being ranked 1st by 62% of the voters.  
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Since July 2024, Brendan has been the President of Cambridge University Quiz Society, succeeding [[Rhys Lewis]]. He is also currently serving as [[UKQB]]'s Outreach Officer. He has head-edited for British Novice 2025 and COOT 2026.
  
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In the midst of all of this quizbowl, Brendan was filming the 2024/25 series of [[University Challenge]], where he represented Christ's College alongside [[Anniko Firman]], [[Linus Luu]], and team captain [[Oscar Despard]]. The humourous combination of his college and surname was much remarked-upon online. Christ's comfortably defeated Exeter College, Oxford in their first-round match and their second-round game against St Edmund Hall, Oxford will be aired on the 20th of January.
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Brendan formed part of the Christ's College, Cambridge team which won the 2024/25 series of [[University Challenge]] along with captain [[Oscar Despard]], [[Linus Luu]] and [[Anniko Firman]], defeating [[Warwick]] 175–170 in the final. The humorous combination of his college and surname ("Christ's Bethlehem") was much remarked-upon online.
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At the beginning of the 2024/25 quizbowl season, Brendan received two promotions. After [[Rhys Lewis]] was unable to stay at Cambridge for his masters year, Brendan became President of CUQS and due to [[Harrison Whitaker|Harrison Whitaker's]] graduation, Brendan replaced him on Cambridge A. As part of that team, he cleared the field at the UK Mirror of [[ARCADIA]]. He also had success at open tournaments, being on the winning team at the open mirror of [[WaShBowl]] (El Otoño del Pop Cultura) and the UK mirror of [[ARGOS]] (Cien Años de Quizboledad).
 
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Latest revision as of 20:27, 30 December 2025

Brendan Bethlehem
Bweb.jpg
Noted subjects Belief, Linguistics, History, Biology, Chemistry, Classical Music
Current college Cambridge (2023-)
Stats HDWhite • NAQT

Brendan Bethlehem, aka bweb, is a quizbowl player who studies Linguistics at Cambridge and is the current President of the Cambridge University Quiz Society. From North London and educated at the extremely posh Westminster School, he is noted for being able to buzz well on almost all the distribution and for having a humorous surname.

University Career

Brendan started playing quizbowl in the 2023/24 season, starting with Penn Bowl and then playing various tournaments on both Cambridge A and B, garnering a reputation for powering a lot and negging even more. Most notably he led Cambridge B to the top bracket at the 2024 British Student Quiz Championships, narrowly losing to Imperial A after a protest was resolved in Imperial's favour.

Since July 2024, Brendan has been the President of Cambridge University Quiz Society, succeeding Rhys Lewis. He is also currently serving as UKQB's Outreach Officer. He has head-edited for British Novice 2025 and COOT 2026.

Brendan formed part of the Christ's College, Cambridge team which won the 2024/25 series of University Challenge along with captain Oscar Despard, Linus Luu and Anniko Firman, defeating Warwick 175–170 in the final. The humorous combination of his college and surname ("Christ's Bethlehem") was much remarked-upon online.

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