'QUIZZY MONDAYS' RETURN TO BBC TWO THIS AUGUST

Only Connect and University Challenge both return to BBC Two on Monday 12th August.

One of the UK’s toughest quiz competitions, University Challenge, returns to BBC Two and iPlayer with twenty-eight new student teams from across the UK battling it out to earn the title of Series Champions and lift the trophy – presented to them at the Series Final by one of Britain's best-loved and most esteemed figures.

The teams will really have to put their knowledge to the test, tackling questions on all aspects of human thought, achievement and culture from around the world.

The familiar theme tune heralds the return of the fast-paced and fiercely competitive matches, featuring the nation's brightest students and the unmistakeable voice of announcer Roger Tilling. The teams will be playing on behalf of universities and university colleges from all four nations of the UK.

Amol Rajan says: “It’s been a summer of great competition on our screens, with high drama, tense finishes and shining talent. And the thrilling new series of University Challenge continues in that vein. The standards are high, the students are magnificent, and the starters for 10 as addictive as ever. Please join us!”

Kalpna Patel-Knight, BBC Head of Entertainment Commissioning: “Amol’s first series with University Challenge blew audiences out of the water. Really excited he is back with more incredible University teams going head to head. This new series will be sure to have audiences shouting at their screens once again and I’m looking forward to the next big moment.”

The full list of Universities taking part this year include:

• Queen's University Belfast

• University of Liverpool

• The Open University

• University College London (UCL)

• Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

• University of Bristol

• University of Warwick

• University of East Anglia (UEA)

• St Catharine's College, Cambridge

• Wadham College, Oxford

• Imperial College London

• University of Manchester

• University of Reading

• University of Exeter

• Darwin College, Cambridge

• Birkbeck, University of London

• Oriel College, Oxford

• Durham University

• Exeter College, Oxford

• Christ's College, Cambridge

• University of St Andrews

• Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd

• University of Leeds

• University of Edinburgh

• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

• University of Leicester

• School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

• St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Only Connect and University Challenge return Monday 12th August from 8pm on BBC Two and iPlayer.