Dorjana Širola
Dorjana Širola is a Croatian quizzer. She has been the highest placed woman at the World Quizzing Championship from 2005 to 2011, and again from 2013 to 2018, with seven overall top 20 finishes during this period.
She was also the winner of the BBC University Challenge quiz in 2002 as a member of the University of Oxford, Somerville College team and the winner of the University Challenge: The Professionals quiz in 2006 as a member of the Bodleian Library team. She is the only person to have won both UC and UCP and the only person who has won University Challenge twice on two different teams. She also appeared on the BBC series Only Connect with a team called the ‘Junipers’.
At the European Quizzing Championships she has won Gold, three Silvers and two Bronzes with her club "Europalia", Thomas Kolåsæter, Holger Waldenberger ), as well as a Bronze in Pairs with Holger Waldenberger. Since 2015 she has captained the Croatian national quizzing team.
