Can you score more than 50% on this University Challenge quiz?
Can you score more than 50% on this University Challenge quiz?
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Ever since it first aired way back in 1962, University Challenge has been one of the hardest quiz shows on television.
It's so fiendish that even getting one question right in an episode can feel like an achievement, and four or five makes you feel like a bona fide genius (even while the students on screen are notching up hundreds of points).
So we've decided to put you to the test - how many of these questions used on the show itself can you get right? It's multiple choice, which makes things much easier, but despite this you've still got a tough job getting full marks here. Good luck!
Which structure was begun in 1173 as the third and final structure of its city's cathedral complex? Designed to be 56 metres high, improvements to the foundations since 1990 have diminished its distinctive aberration.
"We must leave exactly on time - From now on, everything must function to perfection." Whose words were these, spoken to a station-master and quoted in 1939, part of the mythology that the trains always ran on time under Fascism?
The Light Programme was the forerunner of which BBC radio channel, to which it changed its name on September 30, 1967?
The novels Midnight’s Children, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Robinson Crusoe and Tristram Shandy all open with which word?
Add together the number of letters in the surnames of the Prime Minister who came to office after the 1945 general election and his two successors. What prime number results?
The national flag of which Central American country is unusual, in that it depicts human beings. In this case, two woodcutters. It gained independence from the UK in 1981.
Which English term for a time of day is derived ultimately from the Latin phrase meaning the ninth hour after sunrise calculated according to the Roman method?
When playing golf, I hook my first shot, which lands 200 yards due north of the tee and 210 yards due west of the hole. How far is it from hole to tee?
Noted for its yellow limestone architecture and taking its name from the Gallic tribe of the Medio-Matrici, which city on the River Moselle is the capital of the French region of Lorraine?
In chemistry, what is the name for the combination of several molecules to form a more complex molecule, usually by a step- or chain-growth mechanism?
The naked torso of a woman, an inverted tuba and a cane-bottomed chair – all made to resemble clouds – loom ominously against a clear blue sky in Threatening Weather, a painting by which Belgian surrealist?
Species in which family of seabirds include Roseate, Sandwich and Arctic, the last of which is noted for the distance of its migratory flights?
Which former Soviet country saw the Orange Revolution of 2004, in which protesters successfully challenged a presidential run-off election that had given victory to the pro-Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych?
Which Alfred Hitchcock film of 1951 features Farley Granger as tennis star Guy Haines, who finds himself involved in a murder plot?
What surname links a bagpipe-playing Canterbury pilgrim in Chaucer; a Henry James novella of 1878; the author of the trilogy Sexus, Plexus and Nexus, and the playwright husband of Marilyn Monroe?
Which year marked the first publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the start of Captain Cook’s final voyage and the Declaration of Independence by the American colonies?
The name of what restricted substance is an anagram of an adjective that means “pertaining to large expanses of sea”, for example the Atlantic?
Used in Japanese cuisine, the yuzu, sudachi and mikan are among fruit of which genus?
In a work of 1964, Evelyn Waugh observed that “Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write…” What?
And finally... Which decisive battle is commemorated in the name of a Paris Metro station one stop from the Gare du Nord?