Monkman vs Seagull: friendship is winner in University Challenge showdown

Erik Monkman’s team beats Bobby Seagull’s in semi-final of TV quiz show, but Bobby is there to lend support in the finalIt was billed as a titanic final battle between two implacable enemies. After months of cerebral combat on BBC2’s University Challenge, two of the series’s breakout social media stars – the intensely focused Canadian Eric Monkman, of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the expressive east Londoner Bobby Seagull, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge – w