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University Challenge 2014–15

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Air date
  
July 14, 2014

Winner
  
Gonville and Caiu

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Series 44 of University Challenge began on 14 July 2014 on BBC Two. This was the 21st series to be broadcast on the BBC. It was won by the team from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

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Results

  • 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 (current highest scoring losers, teams that won their first quarter-final match, teams that won their second quarter-final match having lost their first, or teams that won their first quarter-final match and lost their second).
  • 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.

    • Final

  • The trophy and title were awarded to the Gonville & Caius Cambridge team comprising Ted Loveday, Michael Taylor, Anthony Martinelli and Jeremy Warner. Loveday later claimed that he had "learned his answers on Wikipedia".
  • The trophy was presented by Will Self, who claimed to have known "about 35%" of the answers.

    • References

    University Challenge 2014–15 Wikipedia
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