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University Challenge
Creato da:
Genere: Talk | Famiglia |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t6l0
Numero di stagioni: 54
Numero di episodi: 2005
Data prima messa in onda: 1962-09-21
Data ultima messa in onda: 2025-03-31
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In a 2000 match, when Paxman asked the teams, "The names 'Cheesemongers', 'CherryPickers', 'Bob [...]
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The oldest contestant on the regular series to date was the then-73-year-old Mrs Ida Staples. S [...]
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The 1972 winners were awarded "a magnificent prize of 19 etchings by British artist Elizabeth F [...]
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Two series from the Bamber era (1986/87) featured eight individual weeks of tournaments. Teams [...]
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In a match between Kings School of Medicine and Dentistry, London and Keble College, Oxford in [...]
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Bamber Gascoigne used to check the questions himself and would personally re-write any which di [...]
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Dr Ian Bayley competed twice on UC, originally on behalf of Imperial College, London, who reach [...]
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During the Paxman era, the opening match of the first fourteen series saw the losing team quali [...]
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Germaine Greer, special guest for the 1997 Grand Final, had been so convinced that a team of ma [...]
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Stephen Fry appeared in an episode in 1980, representing Queen's College - University of Cambri [...]
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Special editions have included a Red Dwarf-themed edition, cleverly re-titled Universe Challeng [...]
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When Miriam Margolyes appeared on the show representing Newnham College (Cambridge) in 1963, sh [...]
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Several former contestants (including at least two champions) have become question-setters for [...]
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In a quiz show feature in Radio Times, Stephen Fry named University Challenge as the quiz show [...]
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In the early days the show had a varying score for bonuses, which was announced by the chairman [...]
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In the later 2007 series, producers managed to confuse the audience by showing two picture ques [...]
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In 1970, a Mrs Westgate from Southampton complained to listings magazine TV Times about the Cam [...]
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The all-time lowest score was 10 points achieved by Sussex University in 1971.
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The highest score of the Paxman Era so far was Open University's 415 points against Charing Cro [...]
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The 1971 champions, Churchill College, Cambridge, revealed on the 'Reunited' series that both t [...]
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The highest match score of all time was University College, Oxford's 520 points in 1987, versus [...]
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In the 2000/2001 series student from Downing College, Cambridge was apparently researching a Ph [...]
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In 1999, Paxman asked the victorious Open University team what they would do with the trophy, g [...]
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Corpus Christi College, Oxford, were retrospectively disqualified from the 2008-9 series after [...]
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At least two contestants have returned to university in their later years solely to try to appe [...]
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Stephen Fry holds the record for the most appearances on the programme for a non-host. He repre [...]
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During the early years Bamber once successfully covered up a swear-word on camera. One contesta [...]
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Jeremy Paxman only accepted the role of host after a chance meeting with his predecessor. In a [...]
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A 1975 first round match featuring a University of Manchester team tried to derail the show by [...]
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The glass-effect background behind each team in the first modern incarnation read "University C [...]
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University Challenge features in David Nicholls' bestselling comic novel Starter For Ten, which [...]
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In 1999, Paxman showed a British tourist sign: "For ten points, simply tell me what it is". New [...]
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In the 1998 Final, Professor Richard Dawkins announced that he was hoping to see A-Levels scrap [...]
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At least two finalists from the regular series have gone on to win different series. Dorjana Si [...]
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Newspaper reports in 1994 suggested that other people considered for the role of question-maste [...]
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In 2003, Benjamin Zephaniah stated that he once told his mother that one day he'd get on 'Unive [...]
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Bamber's favourite question: "If A stands for Artichoke, B for Because, C for Curriculum, and D [...]
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At its peak, the programme pulled in 12 million viewers.
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A picture round occurred in the 1985 Grand Final match between the Open University and St Andre [...]
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Many of the 1962-1971 episodes are missing from the archives.
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In the original incarnation, the series final was a "best of three" tournament between the semi [...]
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The lowest score for the Paxman era so far is 15 points, achieved by Exeter in a quarter-final [...]
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Jesse Honey, who was in the Durham University team that made the semi-finals in the 1998-9 seri [...]
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Aaron Bell, part of the victorious St John's College, Oxford team in 2001, went on to become th [...]
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In the 1984 series, the captain of a team from York University was apparently unable to get his [...]
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Contrary to the impression you might get from watching Jeremy Paxman's reaction to unexpected r [...]
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In the Paxman era, few episodes have gone to tiebreaker. The record for a series is 3 tiebreake [...]
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Speciali
1992
164
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1
Stagione 1
1962
61
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2
Stagione 2
1963
62
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3
Stagione 3
1965
42
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4
Stagione 4
1966
40
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5
Stagione 5
1967
44
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6
Stagione 6
1968
45
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7
Stagione 7
1969
47
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8
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1970
40
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9
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1971
40
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10
Stagione 10
1972
39
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11
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1973
38
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12
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1974
35
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1975
42
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1976
36
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1977
43
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1978
41
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1980
37
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1980
40
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1981
42
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1983
39
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1984
33
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1986
39
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1987
42
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1994
27
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1995
27
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1996
27
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1997
27
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1998
31
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1999
31
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2000
31
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2001
31
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2002
31
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2003
31
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2004
31
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2005
31
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2006
31
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37
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2007
31
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2008
31
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2009
37
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2010
37
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2011
37
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2012
37
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2013
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2014
37
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2015
37
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2016
37
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2017
37
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2018
37
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2019
37
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2020
37
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2021
37
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2022
37
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53
Stagione 53
2023
37
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54
Stagione 54
2024
36
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Cast
Amol Rajan
Roger Tilling
Cast tecnico
Clare Parody
Holly Laffy
Peter Gwyn