Before these matches, the lowest score was 35, reached by New Hall, Cambridge, 1997. Who is Will Higginson? Zizzy, Dom, Robert and Benjamin will take on Oxford's Corpus Christi College tonight on BBC 2 at 8pm, Press release issued: The 1985 series experimented with an actual two-tier set, which was discontinued the following year. It is the team captain's responsibility to give the answer to the bonus questions unless another member of the team is specified with the phrase "Nominate [name]". Registration for the 2021 University Rover Challenge is now open through October 28, 2020! The long service of its quizmasters, with only two presenters over more than half a century of broadcasting history; The split-screen presentation during the starter question phase, which appears to place one team physically above the other. Some information from this table was obtained from the web pages listed in "Special Series". [13], In 2009, Sam Kay, part of the team from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was accused of not being a student when the show was filmed. And it's got nothing to do with Paxman", "Clive James: 'At 16, my dress sense was in the first full flower of its baroque glory, "BBC tightens University Challenge rules in response to fiasco | Television & radio", "Siddhartha Basu: The quizmaster on his latest programme on BBC, the University Challenge (UC)", Southampton 'University Challenge' team interview, A full, illustrated behind-the-scenes account of the matches of the lowest-ever scoring team in the Paxman-era, by an Exeter contestant, Interview with the winning 2007 University of Warwick team, BBC Tightens University Challenge Rules in Response to Fiasco, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_Challenge&oldid=981667462, British television series based on American television series, Television shows produced by Granada Television, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia pages semi-protected due to dispute, Articles containing potentially dated statements from February 2019, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from October 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2018, Articles lacking reliable references from November 2013, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, College Bowl-University Challenge World Championship. Under quizmaster Jeremy Paxman, a low score of 15 was achieved by the University of Exeter in a quarter-final against Corpus Christi, Oxford, whose team captain Gail Trimble amassed 15 correct starter questions. The University of Manchester and Magdalen College, Oxford, have the highest number of wins, with four each, and are also the only ones to successfully defend the title the year after their win (Manchester's 2009 win came only after the original winner was disqualified). In the final years of the original Bamber Gascoigne era, the studio set genuinely was double-decker, although the split-screen effect returned for the revived series and has been used ever since; Long serving voiceover announcers, with only three in more than half a century – Don Murray-Henderson from 1962 until his death in 1971, then, A quiz themed around BBC science fiction situation comedy, The quiz was the subject of the hour-long BBC Two documentary, In 2014, a two part documentary narrated by, In March 2017 semi-finalist team captains, This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 18:40. [17], A few days later, it was also revealed that Charles Markland, a member of the 2008 winning team from Christ Church, Oxford, had transferred his studies to Balliol College halfway through the series.