"revived in 1994 by the BBC, although still produced by Granada Television (now as part of the ITV Studios), using the original format with minor differences and presented by Jeremy Paxman. During the show's hiatus, a special edition of the show was made, not by Granada but by BBC Television, as part of a themed evening of programmes dedicated to Granada Television. It was presented by Bamber Gascoigne, and screened on BBC2 on 28 December 1992. The teams included one of students from Keble College, Oxford, which had fielded the winning team in the final 1987 season; and a graduates"
"Bamber Gascoigne Arthur Bamber Gascoigne (born 24 January 1935) is a British television presenter and author, best known for being the original quizmaster on ""University Challenge"", which ran from 1962 to 1987. Gascoigne is the elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne (himself the son of Brigadier-General Sir Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne) by his marriage in 1934 to Mary Louisa Hermione O'Neill, a daughter of Captain the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill and Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes. His great-grandfathers include Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, and Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill. He is a nephew of Sir"
"University Challenge 2016–17 Series 46 of ""University Challenge"" began on 11 July 2016 on BBC Two, and finished on 10 April 2017. This series of the long running quiz show has drawn larger audiences than usual thanks to a collection of interesting characters, most notably Eric Monkman from Wolfson College, Cambridge, who has been described on Twitter by many viewers as ""the most intense contestant ever"". Each year, a Christmas special sequence is aired featuring distinguished alumni. Out of 7 first-round winners, the top 4 highest-scoring teams progress to the semi-finals. The teams consist of celebrities who represent their alma"
"of directors of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He is a patron of the Museum of Richmond. Gascoigne and his wife, Christina (née Ditchburn), whom he met at Cambridge, have lived in Richmond, London, since the late 1960s. In 2014 Gascoigne inherited West Horsley Place from his aunt and godmother Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe. Bamber Gascoigne Arthur Bamber Gascoigne (born 24 January 1935) is a British television presenter and author, best known for being the original quizmaster on ""University Challenge"", which ran from 1962 to 1987. Gascoigne is the elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne"
"maters. University Challenge 2016–17 Series 46 of ""University Challenge"" began on 11 July 2016 on BBC Two, and finished on 10 April 2017. This series of the long running quiz show has drawn larger audiences than usual thanks to a collection of interesting characters, most notably Eric Monkman from Wolfson College, Cambridge, who has been described on Twitter by many viewers as ""the most intense contestant ever"". Each year, a Christmas special sequence is aired featuring distinguished alumni. Out of 7 first-round winners, the top 4 highest-scoring teams progress to the semi-finals. The teams consist of celebrities who represent their"
"Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull Eric Monkman (born c. 1988) and Bobby Seagull are academics and television personalities based in the United Kingdom. They came to fame as a result of appearances on the 2016–17 season of the BBC Two quiz show ""University Challenge"". Monkman was captain of the Wolfson College, Cambridge team, and Seagull was captain of the Emmanuel College, Cambridge team. They met in the semi-final where Wolfson won, but were beaten by Balliol College, Oxford in the final. They presented the BBC Radio 4 programme ""Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure"", and wrote the quiz book ""The Monkman"
"the book ""Jonathan Livingston Seagull"""". Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull Eric Monkman (born c. 1988) and Bobby Seagull are academics and television personalities based in the United Kingdom. They came to fame as a result of appearances on the 2016–17 season of the BBC Two quiz show ""University Challenge"". Monkman was captain of the Wolfson College, Cambridge team, and Seagull was captain of the Emmanuel College, Cambridge team. They met in the semi-final where Wolfson won, but were beaten by Balliol College, Oxford in the final. They presented the BBC Radio 4 programme ""Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure"", and wrote"
"from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi, beat a team of management students from the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. The Indian winners of the 2003–2004 season went on to beat the finalists from the UK show, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. UC India is produced by BBC World India, and Synergy Communications, co-owned by Siddhartha Basu, who also hosted the show. University Challenge University Challenge is a British 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"
"1987. It was hosted by Peter Sinclair. The series was revived in 2014 with Tom Conroy as host. ""University Challenge"", hosted by Magnus Clarke, ran in Australia on the ABC from 1987 until 1989. In the 1988 series, the University of New South Wales defeated the University of Melbourne in the final by 245 points to 175. ""University Challenge India"" started in summer 2003, with the season culminating in the finals of March 2004 where Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE), Mumbai, beat Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. The 2004–2005 season finale saw a team of undergraduate engineering students"
"University Challenge (New Zealand TV series) University Challenge is a long-running New Zealand television quiz show, running originally from 1976–1989 before its revival in 2014 after a 25-year hiatus. The format was based on the British show of the same name, which was itself based on the American ""College Bowl"". It is currently produced by Cue TV in Invercargill. At its inception in 1976, University Challenge was hosted by Peter Sinclair, though he was briefly dropped in the late 1970s and replaced by University of Otago lecturer Richard Higham. Sinclair returned after just two seasons, and continued in this capacity"
"""choker"" (see Q&A link). He appeared on the quiz show ""Fifteen to One"" four times, finishing as a series runner-up in 2002. He captained the University of Nottingham team to the quarter-finals in the 1999/2000 series of BBC's ""University Challenge"", and according to the credits of the show as of 2012, is currently a question setter. When he appeared on the Channel 4 quiz show ""Grand Slam"" in 2003, commentator James Richardson described him as the ""Wayne Rooney of the quiz world."" In 2007, Bjortomt competed in ""The National Lottery People's Quiz"" and was the first contestant to qualify for"
"of the Channel 4 quiz ""Fifteen to One"", winning the first show he featured in and qualifying for the grand final, in which he became the series runner up to Dave McBryan. David Stainer David Stainer (born 4 May 1978) is an English quizzer. He was born in Exeter and studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oriel College, Oxford. He works as a solicitor in the City of London. In 1999 he reached the final of the ""University Challenge"" as Oriel captain but was beaten there. He won the BBC Radio 4 series of ""Masterteam"" in 2001 with Ian Bayley"
"George's College, University of London. Bunny is a nickname given by her family; as a baby her dark eyes made her resemble a currant bun. Bunny Guinness Peta ""Bunny"" Guinness (née Ellis; born December 1955) is a chartered landscape architect, journalist and radio personality who is a regular panellist on the long running BBC Radio 4 programme, ""Gardener's Question Time"". She also writes a weekly column in the ""Sunday Telegraph"". She presented The Great Garden Challenge on Channel 4 in 2005. Guinness gained a BSc honours degree in horticulture at Reading University, after which she qualified as a landscape architect"
"Dorjana Širola Dorjana Širola (born 9 June 1972) is a Croatian quizzer, linguist and anglicist. She was the highest placed woman at the World Quizzing Championship in seven years from 2005 to 2011, in 2013, and again in 2017. She was also the winner of the University Challenge (UC) quiz in 2002 as a member of the University of Oxford, Somerville College team and the winner of the University Challenge: The Professionals (UCP) 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"
"Christmas University Challenge Christmas University Challenge is a British quiz programme which has aired on BBC Two since 2011. It is a spin-off from University Challenge that airs daily over the Christmas period, and features teams of noteworthy alumni from British universities competing in the same format as the parent show. The current holders are Keble College, Oxford, who won the 2017/18 edition. The 2011 series was won by Trinity College, Cambridge whose team of Robin Bhattacharyya, Daisy Goodwin, John Lloyd, and Edward Stourton beat the University of Warwick's team of Vadim Jean, Daisy Christodoulou, Christian Wolmar and Carla Mendonça."
"David Stainer David Stainer (born 4 May 1978) is an English quizzer. He was born in Exeter and studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oriel College, Oxford. He works as a solicitor in the City of London. In 1999 he reached the final of the ""University Challenge"" as Oriel captain but was beaten there. He won the BBC Radio 4 series of ""Masterteam"" in 2001 with Ian Bayley and David Brewis. Bayley was also one of his teammates in the QLL club ""Broken Hearts"", they have won three European Quizzing Championships in a row (2007–2009), the other two are former"
"criterion in case multiple teams have the same number of points. University Challenge (New Zealand TV series) University Challenge is a long-running New Zealand television quiz show, running originally from 1976–1989 before its revival in 2014 after a 25-year hiatus. The format was based on the British show of the same name, which was itself based on the American ""College Bowl"". It is currently produced by Cue TV in Invercargill. At its inception in 1976, University Challenge was hosted by Peter Sinclair, though he was briefly dropped in the late 1970s and replaced by University of Otago lecturer Richard Higham."
"under University Challenge rules. (The UK teams won in both years.) There have been two television appearances since then; the 1984 tournament semi-finals and finals aired on NBC, hosted by Pat Sajak (of Wheel of Fortune fame), and the entire 1987 tournament on Disney Channel, hosted by Dick Cavett. The University of Minnesota won both iterations. In 1970, modern quiz bowl invitational tournaments began with the Southeastern Invitational Tournament, and the circuit expanded through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These tournaments increasingly made various modifications to the College Bowl format, and came to be known as quiz bowl. Earlier invitational"
"the mind rather than crush the spirit still exist."" On 13 September 2016, ""The Museum of Curiosity"" won the Rose d'Or in the radio talk show category. The Museum of Curiosity The Museum of Curiosity, formerly titled The Professor of Curiosity, is a comedy panel game on BBC Radio 4 that was first broadcast on 20 February 2008. It is hosted by John Lloyd (Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, and later at Southampton Solent University). He acts as the head of the (fictional) titular museum, while a panel of three guests – typically a comedian, an author"
"Cheshire. Christopher Hughes (quiz contestant) Christopher John ""Chris"" Hughes (born 14 August 1947) is an English television personality and one of Britain's leading quizzers. Hughes was born in Enfield, Middlesex, and educated at Enfield Grammar School. He worked as a train driver and railway worker. He has been a winner of ""Mastermind"" (1983), ""International Mastermind"" (1983) and ""Brain of Britain"", 2005. He is one of only five people ever to have won both ""Mastermind"" and ""Brain of Britain"". He also appeared on ""The Weakest Link"" on 24 September 2001, and was voted out in the final elimination round without answering"
"Christopher Hughes (quiz contestant) Christopher John ""Chris"" Hughes (born 14 August 1947) is an English television personality and one of Britain's leading quizzers. Hughes was born in Enfield, Middlesex, and educated at Enfield Grammar School. He worked as a train driver and railway worker. He has been a winner of ""Mastermind"" (1983), ""International Mastermind"" (1983) and ""Brain of Britain"", 2005. He is one of only five people ever to have won both ""Mastermind"" and ""Brain of Britain"". He also appeared on ""The Weakest Link"" on 24 September 2001, and was voted out in the final elimination round without answering a"
"that were not screened on its partner channel TV2. When TVNZ's Dunedin studio was closed and TVNZ moved premises to Auckland, they decided to drop the show. In July 2014, 25 years after TVNZ stopped producing ""University Challenge"", Cue TV revived the show with station owner Tom Conroy as host. Some of the science questions were replaced with more populist material to enable greater involvement from the audience at home. It began airing on Prime in November 2014. As with the British show, ""starter"" questions are answered individually ""on the buzzer"", and are worth 10 points. The team answering a"
"remains very popular in Britain. The show, and the catch phrase used by Gascoigne (and later Paxman) before each toss-up question, ""Your starter for 10,"" was the inspiration for the novel ""Starter for 10"", and the subsequent film. A New Zealand version of ""University Challenge"" ran from 1976 to 1989, and was revived in 2014. An Irish version of the competition called ""Challenging Times"" ran between 1991 and 2002. It was sponsored by The Irish Times newspaper, and presented by Kevin Myers, then a columnist with that newspaper. Over the course of the show, University College Cork had the most"
"""University Challenge"" quiz team in the mid-1980s, in ""Starter for 10"". He was directed by David Nicholls, who adapted the film's screenplay from his own book. The British-American production was given distribution in the UK on 10 November. In spite of the positive buzz, the movie flopped at the box office, unable to recover its production costs of £5.7 million. Forest Whitaker had suggested McAvoy to director Kevin Macdonald for the role of Nicholas Garrigan in 2006's Academy Award-winning low-budgeted ""The Last King of Scotland"". McAvoy portrayed a Scottish doctor who becomes the personal physician to dictator Idi Amin (played"
"team of celebrity alumni who had previously appeared on the programme as students, including journalist John Simpson and actor Stephen Fry. This show was preceded by a short documentary about the show's history. Bamber Gascoigne's final appearance as host was in ""Universe Challenge"" in 1998 (see below). The show has, since its revival in 1994, featured a number of teams of postgraduate and mature students, whose participation has been criticised. The Open University (OU) won the 1999 series with a team whose ages averaged 46. In the quarter-final, they narrowly beat a slightly younger team from part-time and mature student"
"far fewer students – numbering in the hundreds rather than thousands – than most universities. This was one ostensible inspiration for a 1975 protest, in which a team from the Victoria University of Manchester (which included David Aaronovitch) came second to Downing College, Cambridge, when they started a round by answering every question ""Che Guevara"", ""Marx"", ""Trotsky"" or ""Lenin"", in the hope of making the resulting show unbroadcastable. It did, however, get broadcast, although only portions of the episode still exist in the archives of Granada TV. Granada banned the University of Manchester for several years. University Challenge was eventually"
"the University of Hull and their team of Rosie Millard, Malcolm Sinclair, Jenni Murray and Stan Cullimore. The 2015 series was won by Magdalen College, Oxford whose team of Robin Lane Fox, Heather Berlin, Louis Theroux and Matt Ridley beat the University of Sheffield and their team of Sid Lowe, Nicci Gerrard, Adam Hart and Ruth Reed. First Round Semi-finals Final First Round Semi-finals Final Christmas University Challenge Christmas University Challenge is a British quiz programme which has aired on BBC Two since 2011. It is a spin-off from University Challenge that airs daily over the Christmas period, and features"
"scorers were given a half day free from school, while anyone doing particularly badly was given a detention. The quiz is always introduced with the following Latin motto: """", which translates as: ""To know where you can find anything is, after all, the greatest part of erudition."" The quiz is popular with non-pupils, and has been published in ""The Guardian"" since 1951. The current quizmaster is Dr Pat Cullen, a retired general practitioner, who has been setting the quiz since 1997. He reports that he now checks questions by typing them into Google and changing them if necessary to make"
"Bunny Guinness Peta ""Bunny"" Guinness (née Ellis; born December 1955) is a chartered landscape architect, journalist and radio personality who is a regular panellist on the long running BBC Radio 4 programme, ""Gardener's Question Time"". She also writes a weekly column in the ""Sunday Telegraph"". She presented The Great Garden Challenge on Channel 4 in 2005. Guinness gained a BSc honours degree in horticulture at Reading University, after which she qualified as a landscape architect at Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University). She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University in 2009. She exhibits regularly at the Chelsea Flower"
"scientific question. Jon Tickle Jonathan Paul ""Jon"" Tickle (born 8 May 1974 in Norwich, Norfolk) is a television presenter in the UK, who initially rose to fame as a contestant on the fourth series of the British ""Big Brother"". He appeared before this, however, as a contestant on the gameshow ""Blockbusters"" in 1991. He was also a co-presenter on the Sky Digital television series """". He has an identical twin brother, Phillip. Tickle was allowed to return to the Big Brother house after having been evicted into the outside world (although during his second time in the house he was"
"a regular guest on Jonsson's team, where he had a pint of Guinness on his desk where all the other contestants had water. Will Self was replaced by dead-pan comic, Jack Dee for the 2008 15th Anniversary Special and for the 2009 series, which also saw Lucas' character, George Dawes, replaced by Angelos Epithemiou, a creation of comedian Renton Skinner. Contestants are often addressed by their surnames, in reference to ""University Challenge"". In addition to the 'regulars', the panel consisted of other celebrities from music, sports, politics and other fields. Some of the most memorable episodes included members who were"
"devised by Dr. Gerry Wickham of the University of Manchester's School of Mathematics. As the contestants performed the task, presenter Gordon Burns provided a commentary to viewers at home on the contestant's progress and advice on how to solve the puzzle. It is reputed that some of the intelligence tests featured took contestants hours to solve, with edited highlights of their performance in the round shown on the programme. At least one contestant was moved to tears by the difficulty of the puzzles. In 1990, Gordon Burns told contestants that over the years, some of the tests had taken 15"
"a hosting school cannot supply the equipment. While tournament rules do not specify a manufacturer, the Jaser Quizmaster system is the de facto standard in many regions. An electronic scoreboard, which can be projected onto an IWB or screen has been used in a number of Regional Finals and National Finals in recent years. Schools' Challenge Schools Challenge is the national general knowledge competition for schools in the United Kingdom. It uses the same quiz bowl rules as University Challenge, although it is affiliated with neither the game nor the television show. Schools Challenge was founded by Colin Galloway in"