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University Challenge

University Challenge

Description: The popular academic quiz, hosted by Jeremy Paxman, who asks a series of traditionally difficult and particularly specific questions that require a deep and diverse education to be able to answer. The players of the quiz are two teams of four students, who usually represent a single university, or in the case of students from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the specific college to which they belong. The competition begins with 28 teams, with one team being knocked out and the other progressing to the next round until there is finally one series champion.
Genre: Game-Show
Year Released: 1962
Number of seasons: 29
Number of episodes: 423
First episode air date: September 21, 1962
Theme Song: College Boy
Production Locations: Granada Studios (1962u20132013); Dock10 studios (2013u2013present)
Presented By: Bamber Gascoigne (1962u20131987), Jeremy Paxman (1994u2013)
Networks: BBC, BBC Two, ITV
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