A test of memory and knowledge where teams of students from two Universities are asked a series of notoriously difficult and particularly specific questions.
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. One team is knocked out with the other progressing to the next round until there is finally a series champion. Hosted by Amol Rajan, previously by Bamber Gascoigne (1962–1987) and Jeremy Paxman (1994–2023),
