Oxford University Quiz Society

British Student Quiz Championships

The British Student Quiz Championships is a national quizbowl competition that has occurred 18 times, most recently in March 2022. The 2011 BSQC was a revival of a tournament that had been dormant since 2003. BSQC has been run by UKQB since 2018, before that it was run by BuzzerQuiz. Either Oxford or one of its constituent colleges has won 14 of the 18 BSQCs. A much more complete history of the BSQC can be found on the QBWiki.

In 2022 Cambridge A triumphed for the third time, defeating Edinburgh A in an advantaged final. Oxford B (Solenne Scholefield, Ali Izzatdust, Mehmet Tatoglu, Peter Devlin) finished third and Oxford A (Oliver Hargrave, Oli Clarke, Jacob Robertson, Michael O'Connor) finished fourth, with Oxford B getting a win over Oxford A for about ten minutes until a protest got resolved and Oxford A snatched the ensuing tossup. Full stats here.

In 2021 Oxford A (Alexander Peplow, Oli Clarke, Jacob Robertson, Alexander Hardwick) regained their status as champions in the first ever online British Student Quiz Championships, clearing the field and thus avoiding the need for a final. Oxford A-C all finished in the top 8 whilst Oxford D won the middle bracket to come ninth overall, beating every other university's non-A teams. Full stats here.

In 2020 Cambridge A triumphed for the second time, defeating Southampton A in an advantaged final. Oxford A (George Charlson, Oli Clarke, Jacob Robertson, Alexander Hardwick) finished third. Full stats here.

In 2019, Oxford won back the BSQC trophy. The winning team (Oxford A) consisted of Oli Clarke, George Charlson, Jacob Robertson and Isaac Brown. This victory was fortuitously captured by a professional video crew that happened to be in the room at the time and can be watched on YouTube. Full statistics can be found here.

Unfortunately, 2018 saw Cambridge A defeat Oxford A (Daoud Jackson, George Charlson, Jacob Robertson and Alex Peplow) in the second game of an advantage final. Full statistics can be found here.

Oxford's winning team (Oxford A) at the 2017 competition consisted of Charlie Clegg, George Corfield, Daoud Jackson, and Spence Weinreich. Full statistics can be found here.

Oxford's winning team (Oxford A) at the 2016 competition consisted of Joey Goldman, George Corfield, Daoud Jackson, and Spence Weinreich. Full statistics can be found here.

Oxford's winning team (Oxford A) at the 2015 competition consisted of Charlie Clegg, Joey Goldman, Zachary Vermeer and Ewan MacAulay. Full statistics are available online for the prelims and for all games.

Oxford's winning team (Oxford B) at the 2014 competition consisted of Henry Edwards, Hasneen Karbalai, Nikhil Venkatesh and Ewan MacAulay, beating Oxford A (Zachary Vermeer, Joey Goldman, Charlie Clegg, Hugh Binnie) 410-385 in the final. Meanwhile, Oxford D (Sasha Mottaghi-Taromsari, George Corfield, Angus Russell, Dan Siever, Tom Salt) won the undergraduate title. Full statistics are available online for the prelims, playoffs and combined.

Oxford's winning team at the 2013 competition consisted of Alex Bubb, Hasneen Karbalai, Zachary Vermeer and Ewan MacAulay, beating King's College London 625-275 in the final. Meanwhile, Oxford C (Hugh Binnie, Chris Beer, Cameron Quinn, Joey Goldman) won the undergraduate title. Full statistics are available online for the round robin and overall (round robin + finals). Footage of the second final (Oxford A vs KCL) can be found here. A photo of Oxford's winning team can be found here.

Oxford's winning team at the 2012 competition consisted of Alex Bubb, Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Alison Hudson, and Chris Savory. That team defeated Oxford C (Hugh Binnie, David Knapp, Tarun Narasimhan, & Victoria Shore) 520-175 in the first game of an advantaged final to win. Oxford C won the undergraduate title. Statistics for this tournament are available here. You can view photographs of the tournament here.

Oxford's winning team at the 2011 competition consisted of Edmund Dickinson, Aaron Holdway, Zachary Vermeer, and George Woudhuysen. That team defeated Oxford B (Alex Bubb, Matthew Chan, Simon Spiro, & Tom Speller) 460-260 in the first game of an advantaged final to win. A third Oxford team (Tim Hele, Jonathan Lane, Mahdi Malik, Joanna Munro, & Cameron Quinn) defeated Imperial 310-245 in a one-game final to win the undergraduate title. Full statistics for this tournament can be found here, while videos of the Oxford A-Oxford B final and the Oxford B-Cambridge tiebreaker can be found on YouTube.