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Eric Monkman (born c. 1988)^[1] and Bobby Seagull are academics and television personalities based in the United Kingdom.

They came to fame as a result of appearances on the 2016–17 season of the BBC Two quiz show University Challenge.^[2] Monkman was captain of the Wolfson College, Cambridge team, and Seagull was captain of the Emmanuel College, Cambridge team. They met in the semi-final where Wolfson won, but were beaten by Balliol College, Oxford in the final.^[3]

They presented the BBC Radio 4 programme Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure, and wrote the quiz book The Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book published by Eyewear Publishing in October 2017.^[4] They presented Monkman and Seagull’s Genius Guide to Britain, a four-part series on BBC Two, first broadcast in 2018.^[2]

Eric Monkman

Monkman comes from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, where his father was a doctor; Dr Monkman died when Eric was thirteen. Monkman obtained his first degree from the University of Waterloo^[5] and then studied for a master's degree in economics at Wolfson College, Cambridge, when he captained the college's University Challenge team. The team lost in the 2017 final to a team from Balliol College, Oxford. His girlfriend, Jiang Na, who teaches law at Beijing Normal University, had previously also appeared on the programme.^[1] Viewers described him as the most intense contestant ever: a reviewer called him an "unexpected hero".^[1]

Bobby Seagull

Seagull, the second of his parents' four sons, is a secondary school mathematics teacher who grew up in the London Borough of Newham.^[6] {{asof|2018|10}}, he is also pursuing a doctorate at the University of Cambridge concerning "mathematical anxiety and phobia". He has been a columnist for the Financial Times since January 2018.^[2]^[7]

Asked by an interviewer in 2017 about his "pretty unusual" name, Bobby Seagull explained, "My dad was very taken by the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull".^[6]

References

1. ^¹²{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/university-challenge-final-eric-monkman-wolfson-college-cambridge-jeremy-paxman-a7677406.html|title=Who is Eric Monkman? All you need to know about the University Challenge finalist|date=10 April 2017|author=Rachael Pells|website=The Independent|access-date=22 September 2018}}
2. ^¹²{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/aug/17/university-challenge-eric-monkman-bobby-seagull-bbc|title=University Challenge duo Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull to star in BBC show|website=The Guardian|date=17 August 2018|author=Amy Walker}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/17/who-are-eric-monkman-and-bobby-seagull-and-how-are-they-best-known-7951457/|author=Caroline Westbrook|title=Who are Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull and how are they best known?|date=17 September 2018|website=Metro}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/20/monkman-and-seagulls-brainbox-quiz-of-2017|title=Monkman and Seagull's brainbox quiz of 2017|first1=Eric|last1=Monkman|first2=Bobby|last2=Seagull|date=20 December 2017|website=the Guardian|accessdate=22 September 2018}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/04/10/didnt-know-eric-monkman/|date=10 April 2017|title=Quizzing, canoeing and family tragedy: 10 things you didn't know about University Challenge finalist Eric Monkman|website=The Telegraph|author=Alice Vincent|access-date=22 September 2018}}
6. ^¹{{cite web|url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/bobby-seagull-age-who-maths-12896245|work=Emmanuel College's University Challenge star has revealed what it's like to become a celebrity|title= ... Bobby Seagull|author=Chris Elliott|publisher=Cambridge News ("Cambridgeshire Live"), Waterbeach|date=14 April 2017|accessdate=2 November 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|accessdate=2018-10-09|title=Bobby Seagull|url=https://www.ft.com/bobby-seagull|website=Financial Times}}