The match finished 275 – 160 to Emmanuel College but the two teams could meet again in the final as Imperial have a chance to snatch a semi-final place if they win their next match.
During the game, Mr Guttenplan correctly identified the Radcliffe line as the demarcation point in 1947 between India and Pakistan and showed off his mental arithmetic calculating prime numbers.
In turn Mr Amit knew Seward’s Folly was the name given to the United States’ purchase of Alaska.
Mr Amit told the JC in December that he believed physics was a good basis for general knowledge.
He said: “My father left complicated physics books, just out of my reach, tempting my curiosity, when I was young.
“Everybody thought I was going to study history or English but I discovered that both my history and English teachers had studied physics as undergraduates, so it made me realise that physics is a very good base for everything.”
His team will play again on March 8 to secure a place in the semi-finals.
