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Quiz show hosted by Steve Punt from UK universities

Quiz show hosted by Steve Punt from UK universities, in which a team of three students takes on a team of three of their professors

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The 3rd Degree: Series 13: Somerville College, Oxford

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Somerville College, Oxford

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Three students from Somerville College, Oxford take on their dons in the upbeat quiz.

A quiz hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three university students take on a team of their professors. This week, from Somerville College, Oxford.

Coming this week from Somerville College, Oxford, The 3rd Degree is a a funny, upbeat and brainy quiz show.

The specialist subjects this week are classics, classical archaeology and ancient history, physics and linguistics, so the questions range from a sybil in a bottle to an electron in a spiral via mustard, runes and Kate Winslet. And you'll learn some simple tips for translating Japanese into Hungarian. 

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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