University Challenge - Revision history

Oscar O'Flanagan: posting Ls

2026-04-20T20:14:05Z

posting Ls

2025-05-19T22:08:03Z

Bweb triumphant

2024-07-30T00:15:42Z

Past results

2024-04-08T23:55:59Z

Past results

2024-04-08T23:55:02Z

update

2023-10-06T12:44:53Z

Past results: typo

2023-08-30T21:06:21Z

swapped yucky asterisk for pristine footnote

2023-07-30T11:35:35Z

Updated and expanded

2023-04-20T18:58:21Z

2022-11-04T20:29:20Z

Past results: updated for winners wince 2017

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 '''University Challenge''' ('''UC''') is a British television quiz show in which teams of students from universities and colleges in the UK compete against each other in a knockout tournament. University Challenge was originally a spin-off of [[College Bowl]]. The programme first aired in 1962, being aired on ITV and hosted by Bamber Gascoigne until the show was axed after 1987. UC was revived in 1994, airing on the BBC and being hosted by Jeremy Paxman until the end of the 52nd series in 2023, whereupon he was replaced by Amol Rajan.
-[[Imperial College London]] has the most series wins, with 5 as of 2024. The University of Manchester and [[Oxford]]'s Magdalene College are tied for second with 4 wins each.
+[[Imperial College London]] and the University of [[Manchester]] are the joint most successful teams on the programme, with 5 wins each. [[Oxford]]'s Magdalene College, with 4 series wins, is the second-most successful.
 ==Format==
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 |Christ's, [[Cambridge]]
 |[[Warwick]]
 |}

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 |[[Imperial]]
 |[[UCL]]
 |}

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 ==Past results==
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 !width=20|Year

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 |2005
 |Corpus Christi, [[Oxford]]
-|[[University College London]]
+|[[UCL]]
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 |2006
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 |2013
 |[[Manchester]]
-|[[University College London]]
+|[[UCL]]
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 |2014
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 |[[UCL]]
 |}
 ==Notes==

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 '''University Challenge''' ('''UC''') is a British television quiz show in which teams of students from universities and colleges in the UK compete against each other in a knockout tournament. University Challenge was originally a spin-off of [[College Bowl]]. The programme first aired in 1962, being aired on ITV and hosted by Bamber Gascoigne until the show was axed after 1987. UC was revived in 1994, airing on the BBC and being hosted by Jeremy Paxman until the end of the 52nd series in 2023, whereupon he was replaced by Amol Rajan.
-Magdalene College ([[Oxford]]), the University of [[Manchester]] and [[Imperial College London]] are tied for the most series wins, with 4 wins each as of 2023.
+[[Imperial College London]] has the most series wins, with 5 as of 2024. The University of Manchester and [[Oxford]]'s Magdalene College are tied for second with 4 wins each.
 ==Format==
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 |[[Durham]]
 |[[Bristol]]
 |}
 ==Notes==

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 |2009
 |[[Manchester]]
-|Corpus Christi, [[Oxford]]*
+|Corpus Christi, [[Oxford]]<ref group="note">Corpus Christi College were originally declared the winners, but were disqualified after the final had aired when it was found that team member Sam Kay had not been a student at the time of filming.</ref>
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 |2010
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 |[[Bristol]]
 |}
-*Corpus Christi College, Oxford were originally declared the winners, but were later disqualified after it was found out that one of the team members had not been a student at the time of filming.
+==Notes==
+<references group="note" />
 == External links ==
 * [https://www.blanchflower.org/uc/index.html Blanchflower results page]

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