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UNIVERSITY Challenge is the latest show to land itself in hot water after viewers claimed host Amol Rajan accepted a wrong answer.<\/p>\n

Amol, 40, took to the airwaves as he welcomed teams from Oxford Brookes and the Open University as they went head-to-head on the long-running BBC quiz show. <\/p>\n


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During the first stage, teams of four from each university had to answer as many questions correctly as they could.<\/p>\n

University Challenge viewers were left fuming when host Amol asked the students to answer a question on the arts.<\/p>\n

Putting the question to the two teams, he asked: "In 1947, performances by eight theatre troops, who arrived uninvited to an invitation-only international festival, saw the start of which performing arts festival that takes part every August?"<\/p>\n

Manton from Oxford Brookes University managed to hit the buzzer first and answered: "Edinburgh Festival."<\/p>\n

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Amol allowed his answer and confirmed: "Yes, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I can accept that."<\/p>\n

The official name of the festival in Scotland is Edinburgh Festival Fringe.<\/p>\n

Fans took to X – formerly known as Twitter – as they gave different reasons for the apparent blunder. <\/p>\n

One viewer explained: "Edinburgh Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe are two entirely different entities, that starter shouldn't have been allowed."<\/p>\n

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A second asked: "Are the Edinburgh Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe one and the same thing? I don't think so."<\/p>\n

"Is the Fringe the Edinburgh Festival? Really?" enquired a third fan. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And a fourth added: "Oh… A generous giveaway on the Edinburgh Fringe answer there."<\/p>\n

Later on in the show, Oxford Brookes were not given a point for another one of their answers over the word, 'Ciaus', because of mispronunciation. <\/p>\n

Despite an impressive score of 155, Oxford Brookes were beaten out by the Open University who managed to win a whopping 255 points. <\/p>\n


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