A quiz display hosted by Steve Punt where a group of three University students undertake a team of three of their professors.

The show is recorded on location at a different University every week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz

The rounds vary between Professional Subject matter and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds as well as the ‘Highbrow & Lowbrow’ round cunningly devised to check not merely the about The 3rd Degree: Series 9: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Quiz Present students’ knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors’ knowing of television, sport, and potentially Justin Bieber… Furthermore, the Head-to-Head rounds, where students undertake their Professors within their own subjects, offer plenty of scope for light humiliation on both sides…

Within this series, the universities are Royal Holloway (University of London), Aberdeen, Plymouth, St Catharine’s College Cambridge, Brighton and Oxford Brookes

In the initial episode, we’re at Royal Holloway, University of London. The Specialist Subjects are Criminology, English and Law and the questions range from Louis XIV to Lego via yowling and yodelling… Show 2 originates from the School of Aberdeen; the Professional Subjects are Legislation, Language & Linguistics and Music and the questions range from Scottish Gaelic fishing jargon to Scottish Prevent & Search Law via mallets, marimbas and a lifeless pigeon. The third show reaches the University of Plymouth where the Specialist Topics are History, Geology and Human Biosciences and the questions range from dangerous jellyfish to glowing jellyfish via Jack port Straw, Krishna and Planck’s Constant…

The fourth show in the series originates from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

The Specialist Subjects are Geography, French and Veterinary Medication and the questions range from People from france gender to horse teeth via James Relationship and Dick Dastardly. Show 5 comes from the College or university of Brighton – the Expert Subjects are Biomedical Sciences, Advertising and History & Globalization and the questions range from Chinese state facilities towards the heraldic name for the squirrel via Trypanosoma and tzatziki. And the ultimate show comes from Oxford Brookes University or college. The Specialist Subjects are Anthropology, Motorsport Anatomist and Human Biology & Biological Sciences as well as the questions range from myelinated axons towards the Neolithic Revolution via Wendy Houses and Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

Hosted by Steve Punt

Devised & produced by David Tyler

A Pozzitive creation for the BBC