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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- Jeremy PaxmanQuestion-master (1994- )
- Bamber GascoigneHost (1962-1987, 1993)
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A highly challenging quiz that pits the best that the UK university system has to offer against each other. ...Continue »
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6.5
fair
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