University Challenge

University Challenge (UC) is a British television quiz show hosted by Jeremy Paxman. It is an official spin-off of the College Bowl program, though its format is closer to common quizbowl format (i.e. bonuses all worth five points unlike College Bowl's variable value bonus).

It has come under fire for allowing different colleges of Oxford and Cambridge to play as separate teams (i.e. Magdalen College, New College, and Oriel College, all of Oxford), allowing them a proportionally better chance at winning as an institution.

Format

There is a musical clue at around the halfway point, and two picture clues about one-quarter and three- quarters of the way.

Past results

Year	Winners	Runners-up
1995	Cambridge	Oxford
1996	Imperial	London School of Economics
1997	Oxford	Open University
1998	Oxford	University of London
1999	Open University	Oxford
2000	Durham	Oxford
2001	Imperial	Oxford
2002	Oxford	Imperial
2003	University of London	Cranfield University
2004	Oxford	Cambridge
2005	Oxford	University College London
2006	Manchester	Cambridge
2007	Warwick	Manchester
2008	Oxford	Sheffield
2009	Manchester	Cambridge
2010	Cambridge	Oxford
2011	Oxford	University of York
2012	Manchester	Cambridge
2013	Manchester	University College London
2014	Cambridge	Oxford
2015	Cambridge	Oxford
2016	Cambridge	Oxford
2017	Oxford	Cambridge
2018	Cambridge	Oxford
2019	Edinburgh	Oxford
2020	Imperial	Cambridge
2021	Warwick	Cambridge
2022	Imperial	Reading

External links

• Wikipedia entry
• University Challenge page on bbc.co.uk
• the 2006 film Starter for 10 is named for the British equivalent of "for 10 points" and follows the Bristol University UC team