Team Warwick lost their first quarter-final University Challenge match

But they still have a second quarter-final round to play


Team Warwick have unfortunately lost their first quarter-final University Challenge match to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 90-200.

But, Warwick still have a second quarter-final match to play later in the season, which they will need to win in order to stay in the running.

On their defeat, Team Captain Giles Hutchings said: “I actually forgot how well Warwick started off in the episode. We got 3 starters in a row, but after that it all started to fall apart – when Rudd accidentally said ‘eth’ to the ‘th’ question – minor detail, but Paxman didn’t accept it, we lost quite a bit of our momentum.”

The four team members who represented Warwick were: Second year History and French student Sophie Hobbs, Computer Science Masters graduate Sophie Rudd, WBS Masters student, Giles Hutchings, and History graduate Thomas Van. There is also Jamie, the team substitute, who is a second year History and French student.

The next episode featuring Warwick will be in a few weeks.