Well, there it is. The graduates rounded off a very mixed 2020 with a brilliant Christmas Quiz, organised by Sam, Kouki and Mihai and won by the Reading team. There were ten rounds, each contributed by a different team, covering all the important topics - rubber gorilla costumes, french verb endings and The Weather Girls' second biggest hit.
To see us off for the holidays we have a fusion-themed carol, written by Kwan Tuakli!
Merry Christmas everyone.
Well rest ye merry citizens,
Let nothing you dismay,
For fusion power our saviour's,
But 30 years away,
To save us from the fossil fuels,
We've burned up to this day,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy,
Deuterium and tritium,
Together we will bind,
A charged mess of plasma soup,
Magnetically confined,
To generate more energy,
Than that which we consign,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy,
More tritium we need to breed,
To sustain fuel flow,
Lithium we will bombard,
With neutrons as we go,
'Cause if we don't, we will not have,
Enough as we all know,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy,
Fear not, said Ian Chapman,
Let nothing you affright,
Fusion is our saviour,
A fire burning bright,
To free all those who trust in it,
From fossil power, that blight,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy,
Well rest ye merry citizens,
Let nothing you dismay,
For fusion power our saviour's,
But 30 years away,
To save us from the fossil fuels,
We've burned up to this day,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O-oh tidings of comfort and joy.