YEAH University Challenge is back

Depressing programme. It makes you feel utterly stupid!

According to our good friend wikipedia, UCL have never won, but to be fair, very few universities outside Oxford and Cambridge have ever won. The only ones to have done so (starting with the earliest) are:

Leicester
Sussex
Keele
Durham
Bradford
St Andrew's
Dundee
Open University
Manchester
Warwick

My only aim in life is to get on University Challenge. Although as Lampeter have only ever appeared twice, I'm not too hopeful.

I can undeerstand why LSE and imperial arnt there cause theyre so specialised that theyd get ruiined by science questions (LSE) and arts questions (imperial).

Yes, and one of those times was against Exeter, where they trounced a load of 21-year-olds with a team of 50-year-olds. Frankly I think that shouldn't be allowed.

It's funny how the science questions could be so easy - and everything else impossible!! For me, at least?!

It's the other way around for me, I'm afraid.

Same here (suppose that's why we're doing English and Eau's doing Chemistry...). I like literature and music ones best.



I got 31 questions right last night, which is the most I've ever got. *is geekily excited*

I was surprised by Durham's defeat last night. I am very much against the process of allowing individual Oxbridge colleges to compete. Do you think if Durham or York moved to a more Oxbridge-like collegiate system where teaching was done in the colleges that they would be allowed to compete the way Oxbridge do? Of course not!

I believe the rules for entering University Challenge allows unis to submit as many teams as they want, so it could be done.