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Oxford students in Newcastle blunder on University Challenge over North Tyneside question; The students from Oxford University struggled to answer a question about North Tyneside on Monday's University Challenge.

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Byline: By, Simon Duke

Students from Oxford University were left red faced on Monday's University Challenge after they failed miserably on a question about North Tyneside, offering a one word answer despite the fact they'd been told the correct answer was two.

The quartet from University College battled it out with rivals from St Catharine's, Cambridge to advance through to the next stage of the competition or, earn a score higher enough to bag them one of the four play off spots.

The team was made up on Leanardo Buizza, studying for a PHD in Condensed Mataphysics; English student Anisha Qausher; Abbie Karas, who is doing a PHD in Russian and captain Oliver Hargrave, studying for a PHD om Pre-Modern China.

Trailing Cambridge by 35 points on a score of 45 to 80, the Oxford team had the chance to pick up some much needed points with three bonus questions on Metropolitan Boroughs.

After first getting one wrong on a borough of West Yorkshire and then another on Manchester, the students were then asked by host Jeremy Paxman: "Wallsend,Whitley Bay and North Shields are in which metropolitan borough, named in part after a river"

He then gave them a helping hand by telling them he needed two words. Karas...

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