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University Challenge 2005–06

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7894559 ↗
Source-derived summary

Series 35 of University Challenge began on 19 September 2005 and was broadcast on BBC Two. This is a list of the matches played, their scores, and outcomes.

Main draw

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 have lost, but survived as highest scoring losers.

Teams with black scores have been disqualified.

First round

Highest Scoring Losers Playoffs

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

The trophy and title were awarded to the Manchester team of Chris Holmes, Gareth Aubrey, Joseph Meagher, and Adrian Anslow.

The trophy was presented by Peter Ackroyd.

Editorial summary

“University Challenge 2005–06” enters the record as season of television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what University, Challenge and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around University, Challenge and season.
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“University Challenge 2005–06” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, University, Challenge and season provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7894559. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “University Challenge 2005–06” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.