Pat Gibson
Patrick Gibson ( born 1961 ) is an Irish world-class quiz player and four-time world champion of the International Quizzing Association ( IQA ) 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2013. He is the only player to both the amount of one million ( English in this case pounds ) in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ( in Germany as a Millionaire? known) win as well as the prestigious BBC Double the annual finals of Mastermind and Brain of Britain 2005 2006 could decide for themselves.
In 2007, he managed the Wettkampfquizzen the great success and drew his rival Kevin Ashman on several occasions, places and was only British Champion ( BQC ), then quiz champion (repeat of the double success of 2010). Since late 2009 he has been full-time professional in the Eggheads and thus teammate of Ashman.
Life
The restrained occurring Gibson is originally from Galway in Ireland and is a qualified civil engineer. Due to an economic crisis in his home father of two moved in the 1980s to the western English Wigan, a suburb of Manchester, and worked the next few years as a software developer for the state-owned bookmaker Totesport.
2002 Gibson took his first British championships ( in Sports Quiz is the residence of the deciding factor), which at that time were still taking place and came on the seventeenth place under the banner of BQA. He worked consistently using self- written software to its weaknesses and played three nights a week in various quiz leagues. In 2003 he was therefore already in the sixth and still weak visited trial of the 2003 World Cup this year founded the World Association IQA even second behind the Englishman Olav Bjortomt. 2004 was the year of his breakthrough into the world top. He won in April at the Million Millionaire, then only worked half a day and took the vacated time to learn, later in the year he won his first World Cup and European Championship individual medals. Since then, he also plays for the English national team ( Ashman, Bjortomt, Gibson, Mark Bytheway ), with whom he was 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012 European champion. In 2005, he triumphed at the Mastermind final years. His specialist subjects in the three rounds that he had to do was the television series Father Ted, Iain M. Banks and Quentin Tarantino. With the English champions from 2002 Ian Bayley, who also years winner of Brain of Britain in 2009, he won the European Championship in 2005 and 2006, double the British championship, which is now called BQC. In traditional radio quiz Brain of Britain in 2006, he won the annual finale, but later lost the multiannual final against his team-mate Mark Bytheway. 2007 Gibson was the most successful year to date. He won first place at the IQA World Championships in singles and the British Championship in singles, won gold at the European Championship individual bronze, and with the national team. 2008 and 2009, he dabbles in a played in KO system excretion broadcast Are you an Egghead? To qualify as a new Eggheadsspieler. In this mission - the main transfer Eggheads - plays a team of professionals to amateur challengers, the original five members were increased to seven. He arrived in this excretion ironically twice on his friend and ex - Telefonjoker Mark Kerr, who by leveling multiple benefited in 2008 Choice and beat him, only to fail in the next round even, new Egghead was this year the outsider Barry Simmons. 2009 Gibson won the rematch and continued in the final against another ex- million winner of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in person by David Edwards by. In 2010 he again won the BQC and the World Cup and was three times European Champion in doubles (this time with Ashman ), his club " Milhous Warriors" and the national team, the single - EM went to Olav Bjortomt and remains the title, which is still in Gibsons collection missing. In 2011 (world record 186 points ) and 2013 he became world champion.