University Challenge viewers left fuming by contestant’s ‘dreadfully ignorant’ habit

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UNIVERSITY Challenge fans were left fuming by a contestant's "dreadfully ignorant" habit. BBC viewers were gobsmacked at a player's rude behaviour towards his fellow teammates.

On Monday's episode, Imperial College London and Reading University competed for a place in the semi-final Imperial's team was made up of four intelligent brains including Zeng, Sheriff, Mays and Jackson.

However, viewers were quick to point out that contestant Mays was repeatedly ignoring Zeng and Sheriff and refused to listen to his teammates.

At one point Sherriff correctly answered the question, but Mays failed to acknowledge her. Jeremy Paxman asked: "Describing the fabrication of a series of musicals, the song Sincerely, Me, comes from which musical, the winner of a Tony Award in 2017?" Mays immediately turned to Jackson and said: "2017, Sincerely Me?" @font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-HeavyNarrow.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-HeavyNarrow.woff').