University Challenge: Summary

SUMMARY

  • Airs Next:BBC-1 at Monday 8:30 PM (30 min.)
  • Status:Returning Series
  • Premiered:September 21, 1962
  • Show Categories:Game Shows, Reality
Long-running quiz show based on the US format "College Bowl". Two teams of four students representing inistitutions of higher education, answer questions of a generally more difficult standard than most quiz shows. The original ITV incarnation started on a winner-stays-on system with teams retiring after three victories and the top-scorers returning for a knock-out phase at the end of the series, later changing to the straight knock-out system carried through to the BBC revival. Long-running quiz show based on the US format "College Bowl". Two teams of four students representing inistitutions of higher education, answer questions of a generally more difficult standard than most quiz shows. The original ITV incarnation started on a winner-stays-on system with teams retiring after three victories and the top-scorers returning for a knock-out phase at the end of...

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  • 7.6
    kill4it's avatarmember since: Nov 29, 2006
    The Bottom Line: "Informative"

    A highly challenging quiz that pits the best that the UK university system has to offer against each other. ...Continue »

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Show Score 6.5 fair
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