- Jesse Honey
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Medal record Quizzing Competitor for England British Championships (BQC) Bronze 2010 Derby Singles Silver 2010 Derby Pairs IQA European Championships Gold 2010 Derby National Team Silver 2010 Derby Club Gold 2011 Bruges Club Jesse Honey (born 1977 in Bath, Somerset) is an English quiz player best known for winning the Mastermind series 2010 and becoming a member of the English National team later in the year.
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Life
Honey, the son of an English father and American mother, grew up in Bath but later moved to London. He studied Japanese at Durham University and took a Master's degree in Town planning at University College London. He works full time as a town planner and is therefore the only quiz amateur in the national team.[1]
Mastermind
His first major TV appearance was winning the Mastermind series 2010, in the final achieving a record total score of 37 in the John Humphrys era of the programme. In a further tournament called Champion of Champions he even established a new record for specialist subjects reaching 23 points with "Flags of the World". He beat David Edwards but was edged out in the last round by reigning World Champion Pat Gibson on pass countback (Gibson 36 points, no passes, Honey 36 points, two passes).[2] Honey had previously scored impressively on University Challenge: he appeared as part of team from Durham University in the 1998-99 series - the team reached the semi-finals, before being knocked out by the Open University.
Competitive quizzing
He has also won five English Grand Prix events (Oxford 2007, Rochester 2009, Northampton 2010, Rothwell 2011, and Rochester 2011), 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 Quiz League of London he replaced David Stainer at the world's most successful club "Broken Hearts",[3] three time 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.
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Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- Contestants on British game shows
- IQA team event gold medalist
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