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Apr 6, 2017 · Famous for its split-screen display, eccentric student contestants, difficult questions and intimidating host, University Challenge has been an almost constant fixture on our screens for more than 50 years.
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Sep 2, 2022 · I challenge you to take these starters for 10 (based on real-life questions from the show), and we’ll tell you exactly how well you’d do on University Challenge: Related stories recommended by...
Aug 9, 2021 · There’s no denying that University Challenge is one of the trickier game shows on TV, with viewers constantly trying to outdo the students by guessing the answers before they do.
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University Challenge is a British television quiz programme which first aired in 1962. University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 21 September 1962 to 31 December 1987, presented by quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne. The BBC revived the programme on 21 September 1994, the programme's 32nd anniversary, with Jeremy Paxman as the quizmaster.
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- Ted Loveday. Aka the Cambridge University student who answered no less than ten starter questions – often before Jeremy Paxman could even finish asking them.
- Gail Trimble. Possibly one of the smartest people ever to walk through the University Challenge doors, Corpus Christi captain Gail helped her team win a convincing victory after correctly answering two-thirds of all her team’s questions – only to have it snatched away after it transpired one of her fellow team members had already left the college while the series was being filmed.
- Ralph Morley. Will forever be remembered as the man who stood up to Jeremy Paxman when he couldn’t quite understand how he managed to correctly answer a question about Margaret Thatcher. ‘
- Kaamil Shah. The Kingston-Upon-Thames native didn’t quite break the internet when he appeared on the show in 2015 wearing a black leather vest and chunky neck chain – but he certainly came close.
Apr 15, 2020 · University Challenge is memed relentlessly, partly because of the bizarre and insanely nerdy answers shouted out with pride, but every so often because a contestant has a deeply funny surname.
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Questions and answers from previous weeks of the Viewer Challenge. Monday 7th December. Question: "We must leave exactly on time - From now on, everything must function to perfection."
