75 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - 800m and Roger Bannister. 11 bonus - Jesuits, Preston, Ballarat, Toronto, Pastels, Constantinople, Kind Hearts and Coronets, It Always Rains on Sunday, Ealing, Jack Draper, Tom Daley
Yes I should have got that one as well!
The questions seem a lot harder in these quarter finals
95 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - A Suitable Boy, White Heat, 4th, Camera Obscura, Vienna, Greenwich. 7 bonus - John Clare, Autumn, Petra, Trappist, Leicestershire, Damien Hirst, Canaletto
The Nailbourne chalk stream in East Kent has re-emerged in the last few days. Also known as the "Waters of Woe"
The quarter finals seem to go on for ever
65 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Rubens, Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1840s. 7 bonuses - New Zealand, Verdi, The Rachel Papers, Henry James, Millais, Constable, Pontius Pilate
85 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Gustave, celluloid, veld. 11 bonus - Elizabeth Barret Browning, Idi Amin, Kinsey, Alice Springs, Lady Day, Candlemas, Lammas, Cherbourg, Norman, Age of Innocence, Carmen
100 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Desmond, Richard III, Odense, Portugal. 12 bonus - Arsenic and Old Lace, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Rochester, Brecon, Bury St Edmunds, Tennyson, Josephine Baker, Boar, Doncaster, Henry IV
60 on #UniversityChallenge - only 2 starters Turin and Apricot. 8 bonus - Nightingale, Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Sydney, Duke Ellington, Carmen Jones, Passchendaele, Edward IV
110 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - BRIX, Pius, Bosnia War, Erskine, Holbein, Chas I, Alexander. 8 bonus - Goethe, Crystal Palace, Arrabbiata, Clipper, Van Gogh, Garrick, Rosalind, All About Eve
100 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bristol/Bath, Margaret Mitchell, Beamish. 14 bonus - Britten, Robert Redford, Alan Ladd, Leo DiCaprio, Salome, Neon, Hoover, Chrysler, Baikal, herbal, Hemingway, Thurso, Sunderland, Yttrium
I thought I remembered Paxman used to do that in every Christmas episode.
I'm sure there was something he "corrected" but he'd actually got the wrong pronunciation and the team was correct!
He's very rude and condescending to the teams this year
Amol Rajan is so bloody condescending to the teams in this competition, I've gone right off him!
Baguette, John Adams, Grover Cleveland, Tehran
165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - Schubert (Unfinished), Belgium, E-U, Thomas, Warfarin, John Ruskin, R. L Stevenson, Snapdragon. 17 bonus - Waterloo, Latvia, Slovakia, Murmansk, Lithuania, Millennium Stadium, Dvorak, pomegranate, partridge, Audobon, Burne Jones, Durer, Jimmy Connors
musk, Freud, Arvo Part, Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten, computer aided design
205 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 31/12/25 13 starters - Cubism, Vilnius, vector, Sound of Music/Silence, nick, Charles I, Steffi Graf, starling, lungs, Istanbul, Stockton/Darlington, Houdini, 2. 15 bonus - Jaws, John Williams,Waterford,Genoa, St Helena, Scott Mctominay, Barbizon,Angelus,Van Gogh
Lancaster team were very slow to get their answers out!
165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 30/12/25 Starter- Penguin,Baltimore,Finland,Josephine,Stomach,Cumbria,Crete, Phantom,Herod. Bonus-Penny Mordaunt,Pat Barker,Elaine Paige,beauty,bamboo,Thailand,Carly Simon,calamine,calorie, Orgreave,Somme,Winchester,Reading,Gloucester,Moonst/one Day in life of ID
165 #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 29/12/25 Starter - Lune, road narrows,Bizet,Ceausescu, royal, Rossetti, Help!, pins and needles, Beau Brummell. Bonus - school, hospital, level crossing,Garnier,Tchaikovsky, Gentiles,angel,AE Housman, Box Hill,Watership Down,El Greco,trisect, hops, trumpet, Gershwin
Wasn't Adam Mars-Jones a pompous git though?!
175 #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 28/12/25 starter -Leeds, asbestos,12 Days of Crimbo,Salieri,Star of Bethlehem, Christina Rosetti,Gabriel,pansy,holly,Brecon Beacons. bonus -Mark Haddon,kestrel,merlin,Brum,Beach Boys,Riga,Warsaw, Belgrade,Truro,9,Turn Of The Screw,Leviathan,Metastasis, Hogarth,Manet
All in the Family, The Sweeney, Humperdinck, Ravel, chamois, Bath
#ChristmasUniversityChallenge from 24/12 - 155 for me. 5 starters - Bing Crosby, litmus, 100m, Untouchables, basting. 21 bonus - Marxist, grouse, partridge, shandy, Monaco, Enoch Powell, Barbara Castle, Thatcher, Scylla, Moses/Aaron, Eurythmics, UB40, Beatrix Potter, John Osborne, Poldark...
140 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - ice, Barbara Hepworth, fluke, Mendelssohn, Gold Rush, Joan Sutherland, projection, Pyrenees. 12 bonus - chess, cartilage, tonsils, Sex Pistols, Vaughan Williams, Copland, Barry Gibb, Kiri Te Kanawa, Olivia Newton-John, Landseer, yew, pony
French Connection, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Annie, Meet Me In St Louis, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre, Triage, Tapir, Rapier, Halifax, Essex
215 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starters - frontier, Australia, Lucy, Speed skating, Alfred the Great, cod, Davos, caber. 27 bonus - census, Egypt, turtle doves, Le Corbusier, newt, curling, bobsleigh, ice hockey, Linz,Sachertorte, Alcaraz, Wilander,Alberta,A Bridge Too Far,Poseidon Adventure
