Are you Oxbridge material? Here's how you can tell...

If you could attempt an answer to any of these questions then you might want to consider applying to study at Oxford or Cambridge. With nearly 29,000 students competing for 6,500 places every year competition for places at Oxford and Cambridge is intense.
• Why don't we just have one ear in the middle of our face?
• What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?
• Of all 19th-century politicians, who was most like Tony Blair?
• Here is a piece of bark, please talk about it. (Biological sciences, Oxford.)
• Are you cool? (Philosophy, politics and economics, Oxford.)
• At what point is a person "dead"? (Medicine, Cambridge.)
• Put a monetary value on this teapot. (Philosophy, politics and economics, Oxford.)
• Why can't you light a candle in a spaceship? (Physics, Oxford.)
Spokesman for the universities:
"Applicants should be aware that it might be in the interest of commercial companies to create the impression that the admissions interview at Oxford colleges is 'eccentric'. This is not the case. The aim of the interview is to assess each candidate's ability and potential on an individual basis," she said.
"What our admissions tutors are looking for is how well candidates can explain what they know, and whether they can apply their knowledge to a new problem or argue their position."
A Cambridge spokesman said: "There's no need to have special training for Cambridge interviews. Indeed, applicants who are 'over-rehearsed' tend to come across less well than students who are natural and spontaneous."


THIS IS REALLY FUN - IF WE ONLY WE HAD TIME - WE SHOULD CONTEMPLATE SUCH QUESTIONS DURING GP