University Challenge (also featuring Only Connect and other BBC quiz shows)

i wish i could find a youtube of the time they played derrick may "strings of life" and asked the contestant "what genre of music is this seminal track credited with creating?" and this geeky dude was like....."synth?" and an obviously exasperated paxman is like "techno!!!"

(i lied about him being exasperated)

coren would seem marginally less awkward if only connect had a studio audience.

Don't care, WS

she's the thinking man's thinking man's totty

Only Connect isn't as smart as it likes to think it is tho. I auditioned with a friend's team for this series - didn't get on :( but aren't that bothered tbh.

you never liked her anyway

(it was really inconvenient and I probly couldn't have made the recordings but I just mean that much as I enjoy the show it's not a life's ambition to be on it unlike University Challenge.)

ireland needs a UV i feel, but i dunno hve we a presenter with the necessary imposing manner.

http://cms.cbg.ie/imageupload/Article953_Gay%20Byrne.JPG

FTW

http://www.renefiles.com/OK/images/odo9.jpg

Gaybo was terrible doing our 'Millionaire' so I doubt he'd be able to refrain from giving hints at a higher level.

Pat Kenny, though. Maybe.

didn't ireland already have this anyway with kevin myers?

jeez did they? he'd be the right man alright.

yeah pretty sure i remember some 90s version. hard to believe rte didn't copy this.

was trying to think of the shitty name they gave it, it was called CHALLENGING TIMES

definitely needs a revival now...and an upgrade to CUNTY TIMES

MANAGEABLE TIMES

though it was funny in last night's show that the Canadian dude gave answers in Jeopardy format. wonder if that's a first.

Seen that done before, tbh I'd kick a dude under the table if he started that shit.

coren has 'sandi tokzvig' shoulders.

Coren's awkwardness on Only Connect endeared her to me! I feel I can empathise with making brilliant jokes that no-one gets. BTW I've been enjoying this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect/quiz/ although turn the sound off if her voice in any way irritates you.

my sad life of competing at University Challenge (or 'unichal' as I call it in a grimly futile attempt to ironically distance myself from the geekiness by playing it up) has become even sadder now that my quiz buddy has moved away. I got 19 questions right on Monday! Who else kept count???

I generally like quiz shows to flatter me so I have a strained relationship with Only Connect since it's actually difficult. I'm generally just about good enough to get through it without feeling dumb.

my 18-year-old self would be so pissed off at me not recognising Radiohead (who I've seen live three times) in last week's music round.

(p.s. I'm still sad. 22 right last week, haven't taken on this week's yet.)

I sometimes count but haven't recently. Got a fair few right this week, helped in part by one round being a) on someone I know a reasonable amount about, and b) ridiculously easy questions on said dude.

Terrible music round performance this week, no-one in either team recognised John Lennon, singing 'Just Like Starting Over'.

And then St Andrews person got visibly excited when the questions were on higher maths, proceeded to fluff the round.

^ that was brilliant. Music round was shameful, aye. I got LOADS right tonight. I must remember to count one week, I reckon I got over 30 tonight easy.

hey I only want to compete if I'm going to beat everybody.

we should have a liveblog-style competition #tragicnerd

UC is too serious to be on the computer while I'm watching it.

yeah, i'll watch films while internetting, but uc is serious business

Had to miss most of Only Connect tonight cos Mrs V. knew somebody on the Karaoke with Shane Ritchie show on Sky. Which is weird cos we also knew one of last week's Only Connect losers.

Actually competed against the mister and kept score tonight. 19 for me, which I'm pretty pleased with. Though it's probably nothing to you lot.

the ginger tony blair is about the most punchable individual on tv atm

we've dubbed him "the Belle & Sebastian fan"

I was more weirded out by the magician.

haha thats what we called him as well!

oh he's more than mere belle and sebastian fan, he's a vital part of a clone continuum where the variable is effeteness:

http://i55.tinypic.com/2iqfg3a.jpg > http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxpo3lBSmY1qa7pcjo1_400.jpg >>>>>>> http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00085/david-moyes_85824t.jpg

His resemblance to Stuart Murdoch has not gone unnoticed in our household either.

Actually competed against the mister and kept score tonight. 19 for me, which I'm pretty pleased with. Though it's probably nothing to you lot.

― emil.y, Monday, March 21, 2011 8:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I was doing this weekly with my housemate for a while when I was still in the UK - 13 or 14 was a typical high score, 19 is good! NB he only beat me once.

I keep forgetting to do this, but I reckon I was in the 20s tonight. Was quite chuffed with myself for Peru/Lima which smuggo Murdochalike didn't get.

anything more than ten is good for me i think, tho the q's are pretty biased towards, eh, university grads. I'm aware how ridiculous a complaint that is btw.

Argh, we actually guessed Lima, Peru for the first one in that round and then both of us failed to say it to the right question, getting no points out of it. Annoying.

Also annoying - I really like Magritte, but for some reason I *always* forget his name, so when that picture popped up I knew I wasn't going to get it in time. Bugger.

ha, me too, I was all "argh, that Belgian bloke, argh, what's his name!"

this fuckin guy

These ppl are pretty poor as far as uc standards go?

Only Connect isn't as smart as it likes to think it is tho. I auditioned with a friend's team for this series - didn't get on :( but aren't that bothered tbh.

― Sidonia von Bork Bork Bork (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 11:14 (10 months ago)

totally caned tonight's questions btw ;_;

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