I Got That One!

Our first Oxford Cambridge grudge match of the season and it did not disappoint! We saw a very spirited St Catharine side go through to the second round, and there is a chance for University College to get a second chance, which they certainly deserve.

Note, there is, unfortunately, a few audio bugs in the episode that we could not iron out, apologies for that! Hopefully, the gremlins are expunged next week.

Oh, what a corker of an episode that one was! Two fantastic teams duking it out, fantastic questions and characters aplenty, what more could you ask for? This is University Challenge at its absolute finest, including some genuinely stellar knitwear on both sides of the divide. It's a good thing that both teams are likely to come back for the second round; we need to see more from Chan and Co and how far this Imperial team is going to go.

Finally the match we've all been waiting for! This week sees series 51's highest scoring team yet in Edinburgh, complete with charming personalities, emphatic buzzing styles and all-round powerhouse intelligence. Listen on to find out what we thought of the teams, a mysterious question-setter with a penchant for UK geography, and how a Casanova may find himself in a rather unfortunate situation. Stay tuned till the end for our famed best dressed segment.

Tom cannot hide his bias as his Alma Mater Manchester faces off against the University of Exeter in this episode of  University Challenge.  Now that we are past the halfway point of the first round, we are definitely seeing more evenly matched teams facing each other than last year.

Now, this was a cracker of an episode, wasn't it? We had everything, lots of buzzes, a stellar team, and so many memeable moments. But, can you guess what our favourite was? With the first round halfway completed, we are starting to see the teams that have the potential to dominate the second round, and Trinity is definitely one of those with the most balanced team we have seen in a while.

Note, we do not own the rights to Jeremy Paxman's voice or guttural incantations. All rights belong to him and the BBC

Two more teams step into the ring, Reading with something to prove after last year's disappointing turnout and Strathclyde with quite a performance to live up two. What we got was a stellar performance with some fantastic deductive reasoning, excellent questions and the start of a fantastic working duo. Shame that we still can't agree on who the best dressed is...

And now we can't get the image of the reanimated corpse of Queen Mary herself facing off against Oxford, Brookes in this fifth episode of University Challenge. Join us as we talk about Dmitri Shostakovich's musings on a train to Italy sometime in the mid 20th century and Russia's greatest love machine. Stay tuned till the end for our famed best dressed segment.

Well, who could have predicted Ru Paul's Drag Race would be a bonus set in this week's University Challenge? We certainly didn't, and watching Paxman read out names like Bob the Drag Queen was quite a delight. So join us as we discuss this week's nailbiter of an episode, as well as some truly remarkable knitwear and Tom's assertion that Paxman asking about pennies and shillings borders on cruel and unusual punishment.

We have our first specialised university of the season as London Business School enters their second-ever University Challenge contest against Hertford College Oxford. Can the graduate college hold their own, or will the lack of domain breadth be their undoing? Also, we discuss fantastic national emblems, Tom's love of history and appreciate the importance of 90s music, plus a trip to stats corner and yet another disagreement about best dressed...

Another week, another chance to talk about University Challenge. This time we have UCL versus the first of probably many Oxford Colleges, St Hilda's which until 2008 was a female-only college. This match turned out to be a proper nail biter, with the teams being near level pegging for much of the match and nearly ending in a tie! We also discuss the much more diverse lineup, the tie between religion and science, and disagree about who is best dressed.

Music is the Brandenburg Concerto No.3, provided for free from chosic.com.