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University Challenge - Lowest Scores
Not much is known about the lowest scores from the Bamber Gascoigne series, except that
the lowest score ever was amassed in 1971-2, when a Sussex team,
fresh from two series wins, managed only 10 points.
The following are the lowest scores since the show returned in 1994.
| Lowest Scores, 1994-2011 |
| Pos'n | Team | Opponents | Round | Year | Score |
| 1 | Exeter | Corpus Christi, Oxford | QF | 09 | 15 |
| 2 | Lincoln, Oxford | Manchester | SF | 09 | 30 |
| 3 | New Hall, Cambridge | Nottingham | 1st | 98 | 35 |
| 4 | Bradford | Queen's, Belfast | 1st | 04 | 35 |
| 5 | Jesus, Oxford | Edinburgh | 1st | 11 | 35 |
| 6 | Birkbeck, London | Manchester | 1st | 97 | 40 |
| 7 | Oxford Brookes | LSE | 2nd | 98 | 40 |
| 8 | St Andrews | Churchill, Cambridge | 1st | 02 | 40 |
| 9 | Keele | Christ's, Cambridge | 2nd | 02 | 40 |
| 10 | St Andrews | Manchester | 1st | 05 | 40 |
| 11 | Queen's, Belfast | Jesus, Cambridge | HSL | 05 | 40 |
| 12 | Robinson, Cambridge | Wadham, Oxford | 1st | 07 | 40 |
| 13 | St Hilda's, Oxford | Manchester | 2nd | 06 | 45 |
| 14 | Corpus Christi, Oxford | Edinburgh | 2nd | 07 | 45 |
| 15 | St Edmund's, Cambridge | St Andrews | QF | 04 | 50 |
| 16 | Worcester, Oxford | Trinity Hall, Cambridge | 2nd | 08 | 50 |
| 17 | Lancaster | Birmingham | HSL | 08 | 50 |
| 18 | Queens', Cambridge | Lincoln, Oxford | QF | 09 | 50 |
| 19 | St Andrews | Manchester | QF | 10 | 50 |
| 20 | York | St George's, London | 1st | 10 | 55 |
| 21 | Girton, Cambridge | St John's, Oxford | QF | 10 | 55 |
| 22 | Reading | Lancaster | 2nd | 05 | 60 |
| 23 | London Business School | Manchester | SF | 06 | 60 |
| 24 | Reading | Manchester | 2nd | 07 | 60 |
| 25 | Royal Veterinary College | Manchester | 1st | 10 | 60 |
| 26 | Liverpool | Christ's, Cambridge | 1st | 11 | 60 |
| 27 | Charing Cross Hospital | Open | SF | 97 | 65 |
| 28 | Homerton, Cambridge | Christ Church, Oxford | 1st | 08 | 65 |
| 29 | Murray Edwards, Cambridge | Sheffield | 1st | 09 | 65 |
| 30 | Exeter | Imperial, London | QF | 96 | 70 |
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