UK Quiz Results, Week of 14-18 September: UCL Win University Challenge, ITV1 Runs Repeats All Week
Five teatime quizzes a day, one BBC Two block, and exactly one published score. Here is the week, show by show, with the gaps marked as gaps.
| Day | The Chase, 5pm ITV1 | Tipping Point, 4pm ITV1 | Pointless, 5.15pm BBC One | BBC Two, Monday only |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 14 | Series 18 — outcome not confirmed | Series 13 — outcome not confirmed | Series 35, Ep 44 — outcome not confirmed | University Challenge: UCL 210, Royal College of Art 115 |
| Tue 15 | Series 17, Ep 19 — repeat; outcome not confirmed | Series 13 — outcome not confirmed | Series 35, Ep 45 — outcome not confirmed | — |
| Wed 16 | Series 18, Ep 72, made 2024 — repeat; outcome not confirmed | Series 13, Ep 91, made 2023 — repeat; outcome not confirmed | Series 35, Ep 46 — outcome not confirmed | — |
| Thu 17 | Series 18 — repeat; outcome not confirmed | Series 13 — repeat; outcome not confirmed | Series 35, Ep 47 of 47, last of the series — outcome not confirmed | — |
| Fri 18 | Series 18 — still to air | Series 13 — still to air | Series 36, Ep 1 — still to air | — |
The gist: one score is public and it is a big one. The Chase and Tipping Point ran older series all five days. Pointless closed Series 35 on Thursday and opens Series 36 on Friday.
Did anyone beat the Chaser this week?
We cannot tell you, and neither can anyone else. ITV publishes no result for a daytime quiz — not on the ITVX episode page, not in the TV guide, not on the official YouTube channel, whose most recent full-length clip dates from early August.
That is why every Chase cell above says "not confirmed" rather than a score. We would rather leave a blank than invent a final chase. Each night's slot details are in Monday's line-up, Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's.
What did ITV1 actually put out at teatime?
Repeats, all week. ITV's own guide files Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday under Series 18 of The Chase, and Tuesday under Series 17. Series 19 launched on 7 September, so not one new episode reached the 5pm slot in the week of the 14th.
Tipping Point is more uniform still: Series 13 on all five afternoons. ITVX put dates on two of them — Wednesday's Chase was a 2024 production, that day's Tipping Point a 2023 one. If you were wondering why a contestant looked familiar, that is the answer.
Who won University Challenge on Monday?
UCL, by 210 points to 115, against a Royal College of Art side the BBC billed as the first team from that institution ever to qualify. It is the one result this week with a published, checkable score.
The match went out at 8.30pm on BBC Two on Monday 14 September. Next Monday brings Southampton against Queen's University Belfast in the same slot. How the three BBC Two formats are scored is set out in our Monday night quiz guide.
What happened on Only Connect and Mastermind?
Both aired as scheduled on Monday and neither outcome is published. Only Connect at 8pm was the Marvins against the Merseyside Eyes; Mastermind at 7.30pm ran specialist subjects that included Neil Young, Rory McIlroy's career and British brutalist architecture.
The BBC lists contenders and subjects in advance but never the winner, and no post-broadcast report of either result turned up. Both cells stay open until one does.
Was anything cancelled or moved?
Only on Wednesday, and not to the quizzes. ITV1 gave its evening to the Carabao Cup from 7.30pm, which cost the soaps two episodes but left the 4pm and 5pm slots alone. The week's full grid sits in this week on UK quiz TV, and our sister site covered the soap side of that Wednesday.
What changes next week?
Pointless resets. Thursday's episode 47 closed Series 35, Friday starts Series 36, and Lucy Porter sits alongside Alexander Armstrong for both — the last of one series and the first of the next. The changeover dates are in our Pointless Series 36 guide.
On BBC Two, Only Connect returns on Monday 21 September with Double Features against Accrual World. Everything else keeps its slot. More explainers sit under our UK quiz guides, and the nightly run-downs are on the Chase page.
Questions readers ask
Why does this page say "not confirmed" so often?
Because the broadcaster has not published the outcome. We fill a cell only when two sources agree, and we update this page as the week goes on.
Do you print the questions?
No. The clues and answers belong to the production companies, so we stick to times, episodes and scores.
Where can I watch the episodes back?
ITVX for The Chase and Tipping Point, BBC iPlayer for Pointless and the Monday BBC Two block, Channel 4 for Countdown.
Sources
- BBC Two schedule, Monday 14 September 2026 and the University Challenge episode page
- University Challenge 2026–27 first-round results and the independent University Challenge results archive (both give UCL 210, RCA 115)
- ITV TV guide, ITV1 rows for 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 September 2026 (series numbers), checked 17 September