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BREAKING: University Challenge’s first-ever host Bamber Gascoigne, dies aged 87

Bamber Gascoigne – who was the original host of University Challenge – has died after a short illness, at the age of 87.He was famed for being the original quizmaster on University Challenge, which initially ran from 1962 to 1987.

The University Challenge host was born in London in 1935 and educated in Berkshire before winning scholarships to both Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature. In 1984 he was famously parodied by Griff Rhys-Jones on his series The Young Ones, in an episode entitled Bambi.

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