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University Challenge

April 2024

  • Imperial College London's team on screen

    ‘Astonishing speed!’: the University Challenge final reviewed by last year’s winner

  • Newspapers reporting on King Charles’s health are seen on a newsstand in London

    Brief letters
    What the papers say is still seen by many who don’t buy them

  • The Imperial College London team on University Challenge

    A challenge to the BBC’s Oxbridge bias

  • John Torode, left, and Gregg Wallace dish up a new series of Masterchef

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Gregg and John celebrate 20 years of MasterChef

March 2024

  • Amol Rajan and Grace Dent

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S6 Ep 5: Amol Rajan, broadcaster

  • Gorgianeh and her Christ Church, Oxford, team in the episode, with octopus mascot in centre

    Tory peer pays damages after alleging University Challenge mascot was antisemitic

January 2024

  • Amol Rajan in a. suit standing in front of a colourful set in blue tones, with two dfour-person desks side by side showing the names of two universities

    ‘We need jungle, I’m afraid’: how University Challenge went viral on the rave scene

    A quote from Amol Rajan, host of the highbrow British quiz has inspired a stream of samples in tracks – and invitations for him to perform live

December 2023

  • Amol Rajan on University Challenge

    BBC called to defend ‘elitist’ format of University Challenge

  • Amol Rajan

    University Challenge special axed over lack of support for disabled contestants

July 2023

  • Ayo Edebiri, left, as Sydney, with Jeremy Allen White as Carmy, in season two of The Bear, intently preparing food in a kitchn

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Bear; The Sixth Commandment; Rosie Jones: Am I a R*tard?; University Challenge – review

  • A group of Basque children, refugees from the Spanish civil war, are pictured on the sea front at a holiday camp at St Mary's Bay, Kent, in 1937.

    Brief letters
    How my grandmother welcomed Basque child refugees

  • Amol Rajan wearing a suit and orange tie on the set of University Challenge

    TV review
    University Challenge review – Amol Rajan is lighter, kinder and more passionate than Paxman

  • Quizzical … New University Challenge host Amol Rajan.

    New host, new set, same fiendish questions: behind the scenes with the all-new University Challenge

29 May 2023

  • Jeremy Paxman hosts his final edition of University Challenge

    ‘So goodnight from me. Goodnight’: Jeremy Paxman departs University Challenge, gentle at last

    After decades of savage put-downs, Paxo poignantly bows out of the quiz show amazed at the students’ knowledge, not their stupidity
  • University Challenge final 2023.

    ‘Some of the questions were devastatingly easy!’ – the University Challenge final reviewed by last year’s winners

    Even though some starters for ten were painfully basic, this final was a corker – and incredibly poignant too, for Jeremy Paxman’s farewell

    • Jeremy Paxman: five of the most memorable University Challenge moments – video

    • Jeremy Paxman: memorable lines from a master of the scathing put-down

    • Jeremy Paxman bows out as host of University Challenge

April 2023

  • Reading University and Imperial College in last year’s University Challenge final.

    University Challenge was biased towards Oxbridge when I worked on it, and it still is. But there’s a fix

    Lillian Crawford
    A third of the teams competing come from just two universities. How can that not be elitist, asks freelance writer Lillian Crawford

March 2023

  • A high landscape view of Oxford.

    Fingers on buzzers… are Oxford and Cambridge students really the best?

    Letters: Jennifer Highwood and Prof David Thomas weigh in after Frank Coffield’s complaint that University Challenge favours Oxbridge entrants
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