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University Challenge contestants leave host Amol Rajan – and viewers – staggered after BOTH teams claim the UK is still in the EU
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University Challenge contestants leave host Amol Rajan – and viewers – staggered after BOTH teams claim the UK is still in the EU

Published January 31, 2024
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By Jo Tweedy For Mailonline

Published: 07:03 EST, 30 January 2024 | Updated: 10:54 EST, 30 January 2024

Brexit may be the single biggest political event this century for the British people…but it seems to have breezed past the latest batch of students on University Challenge. 

Dubbed a ‘classic moment’ for the quiz show, presenter Amol Rajan didn’t even try to hide his disbelief after both Trinity College, Cambridge and the Open University team served up what could well be the clanger of the series. 

Mid-way through the quarter-final clash, Rajan asked them to name two countries that are in both the EU and the Commonwealth. 

To his surprise – and everyone else’s – both teams offered up the UK as an answer.

Whaaat? A bemused-looking Amol Rajan, host of University Challenge, can’t quite believe his ears when both Trinity College, Cambridge and the Open University claimed the UK was in the EU in the latest episode

First up, contestant Romans, a nursing student from Oxfordshire, confidently answered ‘United Kingdom and Malta’.

Her incorrect answer saw captain of the Cambridge team, Kang, quickly chime in with ‘United Kingdom and Cyprus’.

Rajan, who’s been at the helm of the academic quiz show since the departure of long-term host Jeremy Paxman last year, deadpanned: ‘I presume you guys have all forgotten this thing called Brexit.’

As the penny dropped, Kang threw his arms in the air in despair at his answer, while the rest of the contestants broke out in laughter. 

Former fan favourite Bobby Seagull dubbed it a ‘classic moment’ in the show’s history. 

Double disaster: Romans, left, a nursing student from Oxfordshire, confidently answered 'United Kingdom and Malta' to Rajan's question

Her incorrect answer saw captain of the Cambridge team, Kang, then chime in with 'United Kingdom and Cyprus'

Double disaster: Romans, left, a nursing student from Oxfordshire, confidently answered ‘United Kingdom and Malta’ to Rajan’s question, and her incorrect answer saw captain of the Cambridge team, Kang, then chime in with ‘United Kingdom and Cyprus’

The quiz host was tickled by the idea that some of the nation's finest brains had momently forgotten about that 'thing called Brexit'

The quiz host was tickled by the idea that some of the nation’s finest brains had momently forgotten about that ‘thing called Brexit’ 

Realisation hits...and Trinity Cambridge's Kang throws his hands up at his gaffe

Realisation hits…and Trinity Cambridge’s Kang throws his hands up at his gaffe 

On social media platform X, others watching at home admitted they were shouting at the TV after witnessing the Brexit-sized blunders. 

A viewer described it as: ‘The moment of the entire tournament from me! 

‘Amol’s joy at seeing them waltz into that elephant trap with the aplomb of Boris Johnson on that ep of Have I Got News For You…Priceless!’

Another said: ‘Amusing but depressing when our brightest brains seem unaware of the disastrous implications of Brexit.’

One wrote: ‘Who could forget Brexit? I wish I could’, while one viewer penned: ‘Found myself thinking that they were probably barely teenagers in 2016, so…’

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