Introduction

Wikipedia for University Challenge (source for the description)

1. University Challenge is a British television quiz programme which first aired in 1962.

2. The current title holders are Durham University.

Team structure

Teams consist of four members and most represent a single university (The exceptions to this are colleges of the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of London and formerly the University of Wales which enter independent teams).

Tournament structure

1. The current tournament format used for each series is that of a direct knockout tournament starting with 28 teams.

2. The fourteen first-round winners progress directly to the last sixteen.

3. Two matches, involving the four highest scoring losing teams from the first round, whose losing scores often exceed winning scores in other first-round matches, fill the remaining places in the last sixteen.

4. Teams in the quarter-final round (last eight teams) have to win two matches in the round to progress to the semi-finals.

5. Equally, teams must lose two quarter-final matches in order to be eliminated from that round. The pairings for matches are often chosen in order to keep stronger teams apart.

Question format

1. Starter questions are answered individually and are worth ten points.

2. An incorrect interruption of a starter question incurs a five-point penalty

3. The team answering a starter correctly gets a set of three bonus questions worth a potential fifteen points, for which they can confer.

   1. Sets of bonus questions are thematically linked.

   2. They rarely share a connection with the preceding starter question, except when they are bonuses following a picture or music question.

   3. Generally, there are three separate bonus questions worth five points each.

4. It is the team captain's responsibility to give the answer to the bonus questions unless another member of the team is specified with the phrase "Nominate [name]". The team member so named may then give the answer instead.

5. The pace of questioning gradually increases through the show.

6. The sound of a gong signals the end of the game. At this point, the game immediately ends, even if the quizmaster is halfway through asking a question.

7. In the event of a tied score at the sound of the gong, a sudden death question is asked, the first team to answer correctly being deemed the winner; this is repeated until a team either gives a correct answer to a question or is deducted five points for an incorrect interruption to a question.

As the tournament progresses over the next year, I will resolve teams which get knocked out or disqualified to NO. The last team remaining will resolve to YES. In case of the tournament being canceled or the winning team being undeterminable, I will N/A the question.