Are questions on pop music legit. for University Challenge?

[Richard Tarleton]

The Balliol team refused interview requests from the Daily Mail as they considered it a "hateful publication" and "fascist rag" - quite pleasingly studenty as Hugo Rifkind said in yesterday's Times

On the other hand, in an entertaining full-page feature in today's Sunday Times, our correspondent joins them for a pub quiz in Woodstock - they came second