University Challenge

University Challenge is a British quiz programme that premièred in 1962. University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 21 September 1962 to 31 December 1987, presented by quiz master Bamber Gascoigne. The BBC revived the programme on 21 September 1994 with Jeremy Paxman as quiz master. The show is produced by Granada Television (re-branded as ITV Studios in 2009). It was filmed at Granada Studios in Manchester from its inception until the studios closed down in 2013; it is now filmed at MediaCityUK in Salford.
== Links To Peel ==
thumb|330x330px|Jeremy Paxman on University Challenge asking questions related to John Peel's Festive Fifty, broadcast on 30th December 2015.
Peel mentioned on his 03 December 2002 show that University Challenge was one of those TV programmes he likes watching:
:"I was watching 'University Challenge' at the weekend, which is one of those programmes that I do like to watch because every once in a while I can astonish the Pig by coming up with the right answer to something. That's the advantage really of a public school education as it was, when I went to school, because it enables you to speak for about twenty seconds on almost any subject under the sun, but there's really nothing about which you know a great deal. Why did I mention that? Because Edinburgh University lost, and the Pig and I were sitting on our sofa. We liked the Southampton people, but we felt amazingly sorry for the Edinburgh University people, which we always do. Does that make us rather soft and pathetic people? I think it probably does." Southampton University lost in the next round (2nd Round) to Warwick University, who also lost in their next round (quarter-finals) to University of Sheffield, who also lost in their next round (semi-finals) to Birbeck University Of London, who ultimately beat Cranfield University in the final to win University Challenge.
In an interview with Katie Shimmon of The Guardian published on 26th July 2004, Peel mentions University Challenge as one of the TV programmes he likes. 
Jeremy Paxman asked questions on University Challenge relating to John Peel in 2014 under the section of "bands that had their first real break through courtesy of a John Peel session" and in 2015 for the Christmas version on the topic of "John Peel's Festive Fifty".
== External Links ==
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* BBC
* IMDB
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