University Challenge host Amol Rajan has said he is "excited" ahead of viewers watching him on the BBC Two show for the first time this month.
The popular quiz, which features competing university teams and which had been hosted by Jeremy Paxman, will return to screens on Monday 17 July with Rajan as the presenter.
The journalist and broadcaster, 40, was announced last year as a replacement for Paxman, who fronted the show for 29 years and hosted his last University Challenge in May.
Rajan said: "We're back! I'm so excited to watch along with audiences and relive this wonderful series. And what a wonderful series it is, with thrilling finishes and standards as high as ever."
Tackling the tough questions will be 28 new student teams.
The show has a new set and title sequence, but its format will remain the same, with contestants expected to buzz in and answer questions that range from aromatic compounds to philosopher Zeno of Citium.
Rajan is the third person to present the main series of the programme in its 61-year history. Bamber Gascoigne launched the quiz in 1962.
Rajan presents BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme and Amol Rajan Interviews. He has also hosted BBC podcasts on subjects including education, climate change, fairness and population.
In 2020, Rajan appeared as a contestant on a celebrity Christmas special of University Challenge, but his team from Downing College, Cambridge lost to Durham University.
In May 2021, former Newsnight presenter Paxman announced he was being treated for Parkinson's but said his symptoms were "currently mild".
It was revealed in an ITV documentary that his doctor diagnosed him with the disease after noticing that he was less "exuberant" on University Challenge.
Paxman said: "It turned out that he had been watching University Challenge and had noticed that my face had acquired what's known as the Parkinson Mask."
University Challenge returns on Monday 17 July at 8.30pm on BBC Two.
Source: Press Association
