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University Challenge 2024–25
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The 54th series of University Challenge began on 12 August 2024 on BBC Two, and ended with the final on 12 May 2025, when Christ's College, Cambridge beat the University of Warwick for their inaugural championship, while also being the first Oxbridge winners in seven years.[1][2]
Results
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- Winning teams are highlighted in bold.
- Teams with green scores (winners) returned in the next round, while those with red scores (losers) were eliminated.
- Teams with orange scores had to win one more match to return in the next round.
- Teams with yellow scores indicate that two further matches had to be played and won (teams that lost their first quarter-final match).
- A score in italics indicates a match decided on a tie-breaker question.
First round
Highest scoring losers play-offs
Second round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
In what was the most closely contested final seen in the revival era of University Challenge, Warwick led for almost the entire match, having held sizable scoring margins of 125 to 40, and 175 to 115; the latter being held with less than five minutes to go.
Christ's, however, clawed their way back, and ultimately tied level on the final starter-for-ten, after Anniko Firman identified Agamemnon as the Greek ruler whose translated line in Book 11 of Homer's Odyssey was used to create the title of the 1930 William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying. They then correctly answered one of the resulting bonuses before the gong, to complete their comeback victory and end the series unbeaten.
- The trophy and title were thus awarded to the Christ's College, Cambridge team of Anniko Firman, Brendan Bethlehem, Oscar Despard and Linus Luu, leaving the Warwick team which consisted of Ananya Govindarajan, Thomas Hart, Oscar Siddle and Benjamin Watson as the runners-up.
- The trophy was presented by Sir Ian McKellen in a separate ceremony at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge.
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Spin-off: Christmas Special 2024
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A spin-off Christmas series has been aired since 2011, featuring distinguished alumni.
First round
Out of seven first-round winners, only the top four highest-scoring teams progress to the semi-finals.
- Winning teams are highlighted in bold.
- Teams with green scores (winners) returned in the next round, while those with red scores (losers) were eliminated.
- Teams with grey scores won their match but did not achieve a high enough score to proceed to the next round.
- A score in italics indicates a match decided on a tie-breaker question.
Semi-finals
Final
Having taken the lead on the final starter question, the winning Durham University team consisted of Liz James, Tracey MacLeod, Carla Denyer, and Sophia Smith Galer, who beat Queens' College, Cambridge and their team of John Zarnecki, Stephanie Merritt, Jenny Kleeman and Richard K. Morgan.
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