GLASWEGIANS were left horrified last night after some of Britain's best and brightest students failed to identify a picture of the city.
In a question on last night's episode of University Challenge, Jeremy Paxman asked teams from Exeter and Manchester to identify the UK city based on a picture which showed the Finnieston crane, the Squinty bridge, the Armadillo and the hydro.
Stone, a contestant from the Manchester University team answered Newcastle and Evans, from Exeter, thought the answer was Gateshead.
An unimpressed Jeremy Paxman told them that the correct answer was indeed Glasgow.
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The answer prompted an outpouring of reaction from people across Scotland.
One Twitter user said: "I suppose there's only 5 iconic items in the photo...and who'd know the Titan Crane anyway?"
Another said: "The shipyard crane was also a dead give away. Basically the quaysides of Newcastle or Gateshead with the similar bridges aren’t located near a shipyard crane."
However, some forgave the students for making the mistake because the cities look similar with one person tweeting: "I can see why he said that, though to be honest, it looks like the Millennium bridge and the Glasgow Science Centre looks a little bit like the Sage, Gateshead, and it *is* dark!"
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