I went on the new-look University Challenge - the questions are so hard I could have cried

I'm sat watching the live recording of the all-new University Challenge in Salford - and I can't quite believe what I'm hearing. Question after question is rattled off by new BBC quiz host Amol Rajan and I haven't fathomed an answer to a single one in the past half an hour.

Well, if I'm being entirely honest, I struggled to even understand most of the questions. Let alone dream of plucking an answer out of thin air to one of them.

Subjects that have been covered so far in the match I'm watching (with jaw dropped) include medieval literature, geostatistics and vector calculus. I mean, come on, vector calculus - give us normal human beings a bit of a chance!

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I'm feeling a bit queasy about it all because I know I'm about to have a go, yes me, competing in TV's toughest quiz show. Albeit in two teams of journalists who are aiming to pit their wits and buzz for starters for ten "just for a bit of fun".

Except as soon as we're nestled into our seats, with our names placed in front of us on the famous University Challenge desks, it doesn't feel like that much fun. In fact it becomes painfully apparent we're going to struggle to even get past the actual starter for ten bit.

Or challenge those famous buzzers very much at all. Poor host Amol has to try and over-simplify every question for us to even consider having a stab at it.

He gives added clues, extra emphasis on words in the question, just to elicit anything really that vaguely encourages an answer from any of us. To anything.

I finally pluck up the courage to buzz - and am thrilled to get an answer right. But as the answer is "Guy Fawkes" you can probably imagine just how easy