Funny Video: The Stone Roses on 'University Challenge' - watch

We were as cynical as anyone when rumours of The Stone Roses reunion spread last week, but when we sat down at the press conference on Tuesday, all that got blown away.

While we were getting misty-eyed about the past and crossing our fingers for today's ticket grab, funnier minds than ours had noticed how much Gary 'Mani' Mounfield, Alan 'Reni' Wren, Ian Brown and John Squire looked like they were on University Challenge.

Watch the fine job Channel Alright have done in proving the fact with this great cut-and-paste video of the boys sparring with Worcester College, Oxford (and Jeremy Paxman) below:



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Watch the original Stone Roses reunion press conference in full:

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Part 2:


Look back at The Stone Roses' career in pictures below: