Thorsten Zirkel

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Thorsten Zirkel (born November 11, 1977 ) is a German quiz player .

Life

Zirkel grew up in Celle and graduated from the Hermann-Billung-Gymnasium there in 1997 . He has a degree in banking and has lived in Hanover since 2001 .

Career

In 2006 he took part in the RTL quiz show Wer wird Millionär? part and earned 16,000 euros. In 2013 he was the winner of the ZDF show Der Quiz-Champion and won 500,000 euros.

In the ARD show Quizduell-Olymp , he has been one of three quiz experts since the first season (2015), against each of whom two prominent candidates compete.

Zirkel is one of the top players of the German Quiz Association (DQV), of which he has been a member since 2012. In 2014 he was the overall winner of the DQV's Germany Cup. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of the DQV national quiz team. In 2016 he was German quiz champion in singles.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facebook post from "Quizduell im Erste". November 11, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Own statement in the program Quizduell-Olymp from September 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Christopher Menge: Celler Thorsten Zirkel fights in the ZDF broadcast at Kerner for 500,000 euros. (No longer available online.) Cellesche Zeitung, December 1, 2013, archived from the original on August 2, 2018 ; accessed on August 2, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cellesche-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ a b Felix Harbart: Smarter than Knopp. Hannoversche Allgemeine, December 5, 2013, accessed on August 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Germany Cup 2014 - overall ranking. German Quiz Association, accessed on August 2, 2018 .
  6. ^ Vanessa Engelhardt: National team. Deutscher Quiz-Verein, February 24, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ German Quiz Championship - Singles 2016. German Quiz Association, accessed on November 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Circle, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German quiz player
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1977