Gail Trimble (born 13 August 1982[1]) is a British academic specialising in Latin poetry and literary form.
While her team won the challenge, they were subsequently disqualified after it was found that one of her teammates had finished his studies while the show was being recorded.
[10] While a postgraduate student of Latin literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 2009, she gained media attention by her performance on the BBC television quiz programme University Challenge.
[12] However, the team was disqualified after an investigation revealed that her teammate, Sam Kay, had finished studying at Corpus Christi while the series was being recorded.
[16] Trimble appeared in Series 13 of the BBC Quiz show Only Connect in 2017, as the captain of the "Meeples" team, accompanied by husband Tom West, and brother Hugh.
[22] In 2009, Trimble was elected as a junior research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge[23][24] and held the position for a year before returning to Oxford as a senior faculty member.
[25][27] Trimble is a practising Anglican, and sang in the choir at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, in Oxford.