#christmasuniversitychallenge
100 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bristol/Bath, Margaret Mitchell, Beamish. 14 bonus - Britten, Robert Redford, Alan Ladd, Leo DiCaprio, Salome, Neon, Hoover, Chrysler, Baikal, herbal, Hemingway, Thurso, Sunderland, Yttrium
January 2, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Halfway through the final of #ChristmasUniversityChallenge and it’s gripping. Will @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social triumph??!
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - Schubert (Unfinished), Belgium, E-U, Thomas, Warfarin, John Ruskin, R. L Stevenson, Snapdragon. 17 bonus - Waterloo, Latvia, Slovakia, Murmansk, Lithuania, Millennium Stadium, Dvorak, pomegranate, partridge, Audobon, Burne Jones, Durer, Jimmy Connors
January 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Anyway, before a #ChristmasUniversityChallenge that DOESN'T feature @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social I will be catching up with Casio extra-curricular tasks (did I mention they flew me to Tokyo last August etc) and of course 2026 is the year that all your calculator wishes come true ... watch this space!
January 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Best evening on TV of the festive season for me: #BritishBakeOff , love the specials where contestants return; more #OnlyConnect & #ChristmasUniversityChallenge & then new #NightManager 😊
January 1, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Watching the #ChristmasUniversityChallenge match between, apparently, UCL and Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
205 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 31/12/25 13 starters - Cubism, Vilnius, vector, Sound of Music/Silence, nick, Charles I, Steffi Graf, starling, lungs, Istanbul, Stockton/Darlington, Houdini, 2. 15 bonus - Jaws, John Williams,Waterford,Genoa, St Helena, Scott Mctominay, Barbizon,Angelus,Van Gogh
December 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 30/12/25 Starter- Penguin,Baltimore,Finland,Josephine,Stomach,Cumbria,Crete, Phantom,Herod. Bonus-Penny Mordaunt,Pat Barker,Elaine Paige,beauty,bamboo,Thailand,Carly Simon,calamine,calorie, Orgreave,Somme,Winchester,Reading,Gloucester,Moonst/one Day in life of ID
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I am sooooo embarrassed about the Herod question … I will never live it down … #ChristmasUniversityChallenge
December 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I almost can’t watch … #ChristmasUniversityChallenge
December 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
165 #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 29/12/25 Starter - Lune, road narrows,Bizet,Ceausescu, royal, Rossetti, Help!, pins and needles, Beau Brummell. Bonus - school, hospital, level crossing,Garnier,Tchaikovsky, Gentiles,angel,AE Housman, Box Hill,Watership Down,El Greco,trisect, hops, trumpet, Gershwin
December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
10-12 @briteeyedviolet.bsky.social takes the lead in the series 2-3 #christmasuniversitychallenge
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
175 #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 28/12/25 starter -Leeds, asbestos,12 Days of Crimbo,Salieri,Star of Bethlehem, Christina Rosetti,Gabriel,pansy,holly,Brecon Beacons. bonus -Mark Haddon,kestrel,merlin,Brum,Beach Boys,Riga,Warsaw, Belgrade,Truro,9,Turn Of The Screw,Leviathan,Metastasis, Hogarth,Manet
December 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
12-7. Series levelled 2-2 🙂#christmasuniversitychallenge
December 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Quiz Night is back on a Sunday!

It's a Christmas miracle.

@BBCTwo gives us from 7pm onwards

Richard Osman's Festive #HouseOfGames

#CelebrityMastermind

#OnlyConnect
(a repeat: there are a couple of new Xmas specials next week)

#ChristmasUniversityChallenge
December 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
12 - 11 Episode 3 and I’ve narrowed the gap to 1 - 2 in the series. #christmasuniversitychallenge
December 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#ChristmasUniversityChallenge from 24/12 - 155 for me. 5 starters - Bing Crosby, litmus, 100m, Untouchables, basting. 21 bonus - Marxist, grouse, partridge, shandy, Monaco, Enoch Powell, Barbara Castle, Thatcher, Scylla, Moses/Aaron, Eurythmics, UB40, Beatrix Potter, John Osborne, Poldark...
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
140 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - ice, Barbara Hepworth, fluke, Mendelssohn, Gold Rush, Joan Sutherland, projection, Pyrenees. 12 bonus - chess, cartilage, tonsils, Sex Pistols, Vaughan Williams, Copland, Barry Gibb, Kiri Te Kanawa, Olivia Newton-John, Landseer, yew, pony
December 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Quiz Night is back after Christmas Day!

@BBCTwo gives us from 7.30pm onwards:-

Richard Osman's Festive #HouseOfGames

#CelebrityMastermind

#OnlyConnect
(a repeat oddly, as there are new Xmas specials next week)

#ChristmasUniversityChallenge

Bonus from @Channel4
#BigFatQuiz2025
Clash with UC 9pm
December 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
215 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starters - frontier, Australia, Lucy, Speed skating, Alfred the Great, cod, Davos, caber. 27 bonus - census, Egypt, turtle doves, Le Corbusier, newt, curling, bobsleigh, ice hockey, Linz,Sachertorte, Alcaraz, Wilander,Alberta,A Bridge Too Far,Poseidon Adventure
December 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
10 - 11 #christmasuniversitychallenge. Close but @briteeyedviolet.bsky.social held on to go 2-0 up in the series.
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM