Former student on University Challenge
Arden would like to wish former student Jonathan Cunliffe good luck for his appearance on University Challenge which will be shown on BBC2 on Monday 1 September at 8pm. Jonathan also features in the re-run of a documentary, 'University Challenge: Class of 2014' at 7pm.
Jonathan is captain of the team from the University of Sheffield. The team made it through to the final 28 of 140 universities who applied have made it through to the first televised round in University Challenge.
Jonathan said: "Obviously it's a huge honour to have made it through, and we're all really excited to be competing on the show. Meeting Paxman will be great fun, but we're under no illusions about how difficult it will be. It's all still a bit surreal." He went on to say the team was surprised to have made it to this stage in the competition, and they are unsure about how they will fair up on the show.
The team of five Sheffield students is made up of four medical students: Jonathan Cunliffe, Nate Aspray, Clare Greenwood, and Andrew Trueman, and reserve History student, Joe Elliot. They have succeeded in assessments such as timed tests, individual tests, and interviews with the production company to make it to this point.
Jonathan finished by saying, "We'd all probably agree that while we feel we have reasonable general knowledge, we'd have never put ourselves in the same league as the kind of geniuses that you watch on TV, but we'll do our best and see how it goes! "You never know what might happen."
Good luck Jonathan - we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for you!
