Coming this week from the University of Exeter, The 3rd Degree is a funny, upbeat and brainy quiz show.

The specialist subjects this week are economics, natural sciences and history, and the questions range from Dirac points and fat tails to what Napoleon was really doing in Fishguard. Also, there's your chance to hear the most-played piece of music ever.

The show is recorded on location at a different University each week, and pits three undergraduates against three of their professors in this fresh take on an academic quiz. The general knowledge rounds include a quickfire bell-and-buzzer finale and the Highbrow and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the students’ knowledge of history, art, literature and politics, but also their Professors’ awareness of TV, music and sport. Meanwhile there are the three specialist subject rounds, in which students take on their professors in their own subjects, and where we find out whether the students have actually been awake during lectures.

In this series, the show goes to Exeter, Strathclyde, Keele, King’s College London, Portsmouth, and Somerville College, Oxford.

Producer: David Tyler
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