Due to his degree, he earned the nickname "Bamber", after Bamber Gascoigne, the host of University Challenge.
Kevin Kennedy appeared in character as Curly on University Challenge Challenges Coronation Street, a special edition of University Challenge produced for the 1997 Comic Relief telethon.
On December 2013 Llwyd appeared on a special Christmas edition of BBC Two's University Challenge representing the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The contestants in the 2012 University Challenge final were asked to identify a sequence of numbers as happy primes in a picture round.
From 1989 to 2011, Honda Campus All Star Challenge used the same gameplay structure as two of its sister shows- College Bowl and University Challenge.
In 2004, Stone was the captain of the Scottish Parliament's team, The Professionals, on the British television show, University Challenge.
The RSS team reached the finals of University Challenge: The Professionals 2006, where they were beaten 230 to 125 by a team from the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
In May 2005, Pound appeared on British TV quiz show Have I Got News For You and in December of that year in a special edition of University Challenge.
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When a team of students of Trinity College, Cambridge, won University Challenge in 1974 (Christopher Vane, Frederick 'Wynn' Jolley, Simon Schaffer, and Paul Hopkins), Gallagher was part of a Trinity fellows team ( Sir James Lighthill, Dr Bradfield, Mr JA Weir) which defeated them in a contest on live television.