OXFORD’S losing streak against Cambridge this year has continued with Merton College being beaten in the final of University Challenge last night.
The team from Oxford finished runners up to Cambridge’s St John's College, losing 140 to 100 in a tense final.
The defeat comes less than a month after Oxford lost to Cambridge in the men's and women's boat races in March.
The Merton College University Challenge team was made up of captain Leonie Woodland, a second-year Physics undergraduate, Edward Thomas who is studying History, postgraduate History student Alex Peplow, and Akira Wiberg, a Molecular and Cellular Medicine postgraduate student.
The college tweeted its congatulations to Cambridge's St John's College following the final of the long-running BBC quiz show last night.
Alas! It was not to be. Huge congratulations to @stjohnscam on a superlative performance, and a richly deserved victory. pic.twitter.com/Ubsx8L5jaV
— Merton College (@MertonCollege) 23 April 2018
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