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Abbie Meehan

Edinburgh win University Challenge round - despite Scottish question blunder

An Edinburgh team won University Challenge - despite making an awkward blunder on the one Scottish question.

The University of Edinburgh team bagged an incredible 230 points, reaching the quarter finals after a stunning victory over the University of Bristol.

However, their exciting battle on the show with Trinity - Cambridge came to a bit of a mortifying end when they interrupted presenter Jeremy Paxman during a question relating to a Scottish university - only to get it wrong.

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Presenter Jeremy began the question saying: "Sharing its name with a university founded in 1967," before Edinburgh contestant Thomas interrupted him with his answer.

Thomas replied with "Strathclyde", looking somewhat smug, only to find out it was incorrect, as his fellow contestant Jones blurted out the correct answer.

Paxman then finished the question with perhaps the biggest context clue, stating: "which Scottish Council area is situated between Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute?"

Brekke from Trinity - Cambridge then buzzed in, with the correct answer that Edinburgh's Jones had already said: "Stirling".

The Trinity - Cambridge team stole the 10 points from under the Edinburgh team's noses. (BBC iPlayer)

Paxman then awarded Trinity with ten points, which in the end wasn't enough as Edinburgh had pulled away massively in the beginning - beating them with a score of 230 to 95.

The University of Edinburgh had beaten the University of Bristol in the second round by 185 to 175, and now go on to face the University of Reading, Imperial College London, or Emmanuel College London.

You can watch the University Challenge on BBC2 next Monday, February 7, at 8:30pm.

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