Series 43 of ''

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'' began on 15 July 2013 on

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Results

*Winning teams are highlighted in bold. *Teams with green scores (winners) returned in the next round, while those with red scores (losers) were eliminated. *Teams with orange scores must win one more match to return in the next round (current highest scoring losers, teams that won their first quarter-final match, teams that won their second quarter-final match having lost their first, or teams that won their first quarter-final match and lost their second). *Teams with yellow scores indicate that two further matches must be played and won (teams that lost their first quarter-final match). *A score in ''italics'' indicates a match decided on a tie-breaker question.

First round

Highest scoring losers play-offs

Second round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

* The trophy and title were awarded to the Trinity team of Matthew Ridley, Filip Drnovšek Zorko, Ralph Morley, and Richard Freeland. * The trophy was presented by

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Spin-off: Christmas Special 2013

Each year, a Christmas special sequence is aired featuring distinguished alumni. Out of 7 first-round winners, the top 4 highest-scoring teams progress to the semi-finals. The teams consist of celebrities who represent their alma maters.

Results

*Winning teams are highlighted in bold. *Teams with green scores (winners) returned in the next round, while those with red scores (losers) were eliminated. *Teams with grey scores won their match but did not achieve a high enough score to proceed to the next round. *A score in ''italics'' indicates a match decided on a tie-breaker question. First Round

Standings for the winners

Semi-finals Final The

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team of

Quentin Stafford-Fraser James Quentin Stafford-Fraser is a computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England. He was one of the team that created the first webcam, the Trojan room coffee pot. Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the XCoff ...

Helen Castor Helen Ruth Castor (born 4 August 1968) is a British historian of the medieval and Tudor period and a BBC broadcaster. She taught history at the University of Cambridge and is the author of books including '' Blood and Roses'' (2004) and ''She-W ...

Mark Damazer Mark David Damazer, CBE (born 15 April 1955), is a former Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra in the United Kingdom. Early life and education Damazer was born on 15 April 1955. H ...

and Lars Tharp beat

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and their team of

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, Mary-Ann Ochota,

Simon Singh Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author and theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include ''Fermat's Last Theorem'' (in the United States titled ''Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve ...

and Rory McGrath.

References

External links

University Challenge homepage
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