Questions

A lot of you seem keen to get your hands on your own sets of University Challenge-style questions, so here's a few pointers.

University Challenge's own questions are set by a professional quiz-writing company from Merseyside, Century Quiz, along with a group of individuals that include Martin Heighway (Open, 97) and Phil Jones (Magdalen, 98).

There are two current books with questions from the show; one is the University Challenge Quiz Book, though is now four years old. The second is UC producer Peter Gwyn's University Challenge: The First 40 Years, telling the history of the show, and containing anecdotes as well as 250 sets of starters and bonuses.

If you would like your own sets of UC-style questions however, then I can strongly recommend BuzzerQuiz, a society run by finalists from University Challenge that write questions for both student and non-student tournaments, such as the Cambridge and Oxford University Quiz Societies annual inter-collegiate tournaments. If you want to run your own buzzer tournament, or need to get your hands on past question sets to practice for the TV show then drop me a mail.