TV Series

Series Name:	University Challenge
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1962 - Now
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Game Show
Rating:	7.7 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	19 Have Seen
» Search eBay #AD » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.


Selected Cast	Bamber Gascoigne as Presenter (1962-1987)
	Jeremy Paxman as Presenter (1994-)

Notes

Colleges and University from around the UK take each other on. Started on ITV before the BBC revived it in 1994. There have been 44 series with 1655 episodes to date.

Comments and Reviews


MR B PAGE 8th Feb 2022		R.I.P. Bamber Gascoigne, you`re one of my greatest quizmasters and I do like University Challenge so much,especially I like the music questions most of all and you`ll be sadly missed.



zabadak 6th Sep 2018		Cunning :happy:



carey jeggs 5th Sep 2018		Al Murray doesn't have this trouble. They were all male.



zabadak 3rd Sep 2018		Pay attention 007, Joan Miro is male... :wink:



carey jeggs 31st Aug 2018		I never joke,007



zabadak 30th Aug 2018		I assume you were joking about Joan Miro... :erk:



carey jeggs 29th Aug 2018		In the new gender neutral version we've been promised perhaps there will be more questions about female painters e.g. Andrea Del Sarto, Alma Tadema & Joan Miro.



zabadak 25th Oct 2017		Was the latter that gem "Hey Cole Porter"? :erk:



carey jeggs 24th Oct 2017		Hilarity on last night's show.On the music round Edwin Starr's War was played and a contestant thought it was T Rex.Almost as good as the one a few months ago when a Bo Diddley record was identified as being by Cole Porter.



Pridesale 13th Jul 2017		I do not remember learning what 'e' was. I knew it existed in the use of 'natural logarithms ( which is actually useful for some statistics work and radio circuits with amplification gains on variable pots which are often log cabrated rather than being linear for growth. Quote: carey jeggs 7th Sep 201 Starter for ten Negative e to the i pi is equivalent to what? Contestant buzzed in with -1 Wrong. Contestant from other team went for +1 and got it. So any negative number raised to a negative power will (in the abscence of another multiplier ) give a positive number outcome. i is the Square Root of '-1' an imaginary number since any number squared will give a positive answer so we need to trick the solution. I presume there is a defined relationship between e and pi, such that the outcome of 1 is guaranteed.



Magic Marmalade 9th Feb 2017		After last year, I think we start counting the years from zero again. (Or start counting backwards :)



YankeeDisc SUBS 9th Feb 2017		Paxman is a bully, with mostly highly strung or zonked out undergrads "on the rack" subject to his utterances......If he tried that with me, well you figure it out. Bamber was a God.....too clever for this world, why I'll bet he had a bowl of Ambrosia under his desk during transmission. I didn't get to uni, but I'm suprisingly good on getting correct answers to questions on Paintings by old masters, some middle History, classical music, and Geography, and don't get me started on the third reich.......forget about maths, physics, and geneaology, just not my scene. MDCCCLXXIX.............WHATS THE YEAR? Clue, my paternal grandfather's year of birth.



Quad5point1 SUBS 4th Nov 2016		I don't know about him not having anything worth saying, you just have to watch two of the series he wrote and presented for the BBC The Victorians and Empire, for me they were just superb.



Pridesale 3rd Nov 2016		Paxo was on 'This Week' I think last week, being interview, he is a dreadful waste of space having no opionions of substance or worth (no it wasn;t This Week, it was C4s 'The Last Leg'



Magic Marmalade 1st Nov 2016		It's important to remember some simple rules when taking part in University Challenge: 1. Never look the Paxman directly in the eye; The Paxman regards this as a challenge to it's authority. 2. The Paxman's vision is based on confidence and contempt; Do not draw the Paxman's gaze by being overly confident, or underly confident... in fact, just sit there if at all possible and say nothing. 3. The Paxman regards a failure to answer an impossibly complex question correctly as an affront to humanity, and only goes to exacerbate it's profound air of being a quiz show presenter entirely against it's will; Remember, the key feature of Paxmanian behaviour is to always give the impression of wanting to be almost anywhere but where it is at any given moment. 4. The Paxman regards a failure to answer a simple question correctly as a hanging offence: Do not linger!!! 5. The Paxman will, on occasion, accept an answer that is close enough to that printed on it's card... but will demand your soul in exchange later.... be prepared to trade. As the Paxman undoubtedly would say if broadcasting rules would permit: "Untill next time... Piss off and leave me be!"



Pridesale 13th Oct 2016		Strange over the years my score has generally remained the same, even since pre-teens watching London Weekend broadcasts on Sunday Lunchtime. (4)



zabadak 11th Oct 2016		Thank God that was edited out as well!!! :eek:



Magic Marmalade 10th Oct 2016		Recent controversy: Pac-man said in an interview that some of the starter questions were edited out if they had too long a string of unanswered questions... ..great, so it's not enough that these (for the most part) kids are exponentially smarter than me in the first instance, they are made to appear even more so for editorial reasons. No wonder I had that University Challenge based melt-down that time when I was trying to keep up with them, and ended up cracking under the pressure, and running down the road in my underpants, weeping, and attempting to recite Pi to fifty thousand decimal places.



zabadak 15th Sep 2016		I thought the answer was David Beckham... :sad:



carey jeggs 7th Sep 2016		There was one of those questions this week. Starter for ten Negative e to the i pi is equivalent to what? Contestant buzzed in with -1 Wrong. Contestant from other team went for +1 and got it. I usually say 2.



Magic Marmalade 28th Aug 2016		I usually aim to get 5-10 answers right, and usually get about 3-4 :( But one tip is that when it comes to the highly complicated maths questions, the rule of thumb is that the more convoluted the question, the simpler the answer... just answer: 1, 0, or -1, and it's a fair bet you're near the mark. (Like the pub quiz football questions, just answer Uruguay :)



zabadak 7th Jul 2015		Toxteth O'Grady! :thumbsup:



BiggieTembo 7th Jul 2015		Monk De Wally De Honk?



harley 7th Jul 2015		The Young Ones version was better:



Monolith 7th Jul 2015		How do these people know this stuff Book learnings



zabadak 6th Jul 2015		How do these people know this stuff :eek:

Add a Comment or Review about this TV show

This TV Series: Add Image : Add Video : Add Missing Info : Make Correction : Add to List : Add See Also : Add Tag : Edit Images : Show Image Data : Credits : BBCode