Cambridge's weird admissions questions include: "How would you poison someone?"

<p>Or they probably are also looking to see if you read a lot. I read a lot of real life detective stories and there was actually case that was detailed by a detective to show how one MD used caster bean to kill her husband slowly. If you read a lot in the news, you may also stumble on the riccin as the poison. In the last few years, there was a case of poison an ex-Russian in London. Newspaper probably mentioned similar case of poison by the Russian such as Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian writer and journalist who was living in London, died after a man stabbed him with an umbrella, which injected a ricin pellet.
[Poisoned:</a> spy who quit Russia for Britain - Times Online](<a href=“Latest news & breaking headlines | The Times and The Sunday Times”>Latest news & breaking headlines | The Times and The Sunday Times)</p>

<p>But I’m sure they won’t fail a student on a simple question but rather if a student fails on multiple questions. The question is can students think on their feet because sometimes good grades are probably earned by just being a grind.</p>