University Challenge first began in 1962 when Granada Television took the bold step of introducing an intellectual quiz show which was rather less glitzy than the traditional game show formats ...

A brilliant University Challenge whiz has been hailed as an "absolute machine" after playing a critical role in Imperial College London's total thrashing of the University of Oxford's Wadham College.

University Challenge viewers were left 'staggered and disappointed' after contestants failed to answer one particular question on a recent episode. The BBC show, hosted by Amol Rajan, 41 ...

It was a battle for the survival of the quiz show fittest as Edinburgh took on Darwin College, Cambridge for a place in the quarter-finals of University Challenge. With St Andrews losing to a team ...