Mother and son pair team up for BBC’s University Challenge

UCL's university challenge team on set - UCL's University Challenge team 2022-23 contains the programme's first ever mother and son pair in its 60-year history. Rachel Collier (UCL Greek & Latin) and her son Louis Collier (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society) will team up alongside Team Captain James Salmon (UCL Mathematics & Physical Sciences), Michael Fleetwood-Walker (UCL Geography) and team reserve member Thomas Cryer (UCL Institute of the Americas). Currently airing on BBC Two , University Challenge is Britain's longest-running quiz show.  Throughout the academic year, two teams of four students from UK universities are pitted against each other in a battle of general knowledge - with each winning team progressing to the next round until an overall series winner eventually emerges. Speaking about the experience of quizzing alongside her son, PhD candidate Rachel (UCL Greek & Latin) said: " It was by accident (or happy coincidence) rather than design that Louis and I overlapped for a year at UCL and then found ourselves together on a University Challenge team. "We went through the university's first rounds of selection independently and it was only at the final stage that the filial connection came to light. The rest of the family, all keen quizzers, were excited and intrigued.