Eric Monkman may have flown the University Challenge nest, but there’s a new wide-eyed endlessly-excitable contestant on the show. His name: Jonathan Gibson. His team: Magdalen College, Oxford. His taste in jumpers: turtle.

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And it only took his brief introduction as team captain during his first round bout with St Edmund's College, Cambridge for viewers to declare him the star of the series…

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Even if some of his new fanbase couldn’t shake an uncanny resemblance…

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And just his case you needed more reason to love Gibson, on his Facebook he lists his perfect experience as “reading a PG Wodehouse novel, listening to Frank Sinatra, watching a 1950s Alfred Hitchcock film, or eating sticky toffee pudding with custard. That says it all.”

Oh Gibson, we can’t wait to see you back in shakey-eyed action. And, thanks to his team’s 80-point victory, he’ll be returning in the show’s second round in a few week’s time.

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University Challenge is on 8pm Mondays, BBC2

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Thomas LingStaff Writer, BBC Science Focus

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