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three times straight from 2007 to 2009 with "Broken Hearts" (featuring Olav Bjortomt, David Stainer and Mark Grant), and in 2004 with the English national team. With his partner

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he also won the European pair championships in 2005 and the

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in 2006. In individual competitions he won the British Championship in 2001 to take the Mark Bytheway trophy. In addition, he has represented the

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in the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament run by

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. In 2008, with Stainer and Grant, he won the first series of ''

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''. In 2010 he won the final of the

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''. In April 2011 he won the BBC quiz ''

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Personal details

Bayley studied computing at

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and then took a

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, also in computing. He represented both institutions on

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– Imperial in the 1996–97 series and Balliol in the 2000–01 series. He is currently a senior lecturer in

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having previously lectured in the School of Design, Engineering & Computing at

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between 2002 and 2004.

National and international titles (IQA)

He was part of the England side that won the 2004

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, won the 2005 European Pairs Quiz with

and the Club competition in 2007 to 2009 with his club ''Broken Hearts'' (who also play The Quiz League of London). In 2012 he was ranked 14 in the world rankings based on performance since 2009 in both the European and World Quiz Championships.International Quizzing Association, Rankings

''Mastermind''

Bayley took part in the 2008-9 series of ''

'' and got to the final where he scored 28 points, but was beaten into second place by Nancy Dickmann (30 points). His specialist subjects were

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in the heats, '' Doctor Who'' in the 1970s in the semi-finals, and

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of the 19th Century in the Grand Final. He attempted ''Mastermind'' again in 2010–11. Bayley's specialist subjects in the heats and semi-final were The Life and Work of

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and the

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. He made it once again to the Grand Final on Friday 15 April 2011, this time beating Peter Reilly to win the title. In the final, he answered specialist subject questions on paintings in the

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