YTU Staff Fun Facts

May 2021's competition! Its simple, facts are on the left and faces are on the right in RANDOM ORDER. Match the fact to the person for points, the person with the most points wins! Remember to record your guesses using the google form!

BE WARNED: To make it harder there are several decoys.....

Person 1

As big fans of Battlestar Galactica, person 1 and their partner managed to sneak nine references from the show into their wedding day.


Person 2

Person 2 once tandem skydived from 15,000 feet.

Person 3

When person 3 was 10 years old they open auditioned to play Lyra Belacqua in the film 'The Golden Compass'.

Person 4

As one of their previous jobs, person 4 worked selling boat trips to Alcatraz Prison.

Person 5

Person 5 has a pet snake called Nancy.

Person 6

At age 11, person 6 got stung by a poisonous scorpion and had to be rushed to hospital to get an antidote.

Person 7

Person 7 has ties to the descendants of the Russian Royalty.

Person 8

Person 8 once baked and decorated 220 cupcakes in a single day.

Person 9

Person 9 spent their early career days un an electroplating factory suspended over big open tanks of cyanide-based chemical solutions. 

Person 10

Person 10 was once in a film with an actor from neighbours and the man who played Mr Muscle in the adverts

Person 11

Person 11 once spent 3 weeks staying in a house in the middle of Ragunan Zoo, Jakarta with the lady who lived there. She was known as "Mother Teresa of the Orangutans" and had an orangutan playground in the back garden.

Alex Dean


Izzy Coleman


Laura Doherty

Michelle Watson

Camila Maturana

Liz Cook


Lauren Burke

David Torgerson


Ailish Byrne



Rachel Carr

James Cragg

Jude Watson

Katherine Jones