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

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 ;_;

NEXT WEEK GUYS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014jbyp

YOU CAN DO IT.

I'M OPTIMISTIC TO A FAULT.

gmit castlebar never got an invite onto uc iirc

Act of union 1870 regum donum me bollix

I love Only Connect. One of the online quiz connections was Natasha Bedingfield singles; I killed that one.

my sister got the "kids in The Cosby Show" after 2 clues last week, she was v. v. happy

I keep forgetting to watch it. Remind me next week!

i watched a couple of only connects with the friend i watch with tonight (we always end up missing it live and saving it from iplayer and watching loads in a session) and we utterly raked (ravaged?) the one that included the cosby show question. we would've beat either team easily, but that was after being terrible on the first one. unlike university challenge where i'll consistently get ~25 questions right, with only connect, as nv seems to tragically hint towards, you can be generally pretty good at it but on a particular set of questions end up with nothing.

difficulty can be quite variable yeah, but they definitely seem to ramp it up in later rounds

They're really taking the piss with the lack of popular music rounds this series

uc?

who UC? don't mind too much, the music rounds are generally poor and at least tonite i got to sing "Kill the wabbit" a few times

otm

Yeah, UC. They are usually easy, but i like to mock the teams when they get incredibly obvious ones wrong

Anyway darragh, you should've gone on "Challenging Times". It was only slightly tougher than Blackboard Jungle

age you think i'm ffs

It ended in 2001. Not beyond the realms of possibility?

i didnt hit thirclevel til 2001 tbh

Re the music rounds on UC, lots of classicz on I know the Music round is my chance to score points on University Challenge, but for gods sake!!!

my fav:

Recently, they had a round where they played brief snips of the intro for all the tracks off an album. Kinda easy, and the team got them all except for:

"tinklytinkly/BAMBAMBAMBAM/skirrrrskirrrr"

Stude: "Um, The Velvet Underground?"
Paxo: "No, that's the third album, this was the Velvet Underground and Nico.."

― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:11 (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also Carmody is on that thread

I'm getting on average 8-12 questions right per episode this series. That seems unusually high??

that's what i was thinking last night, yeah

It means you're getting older, boys

man i was on fire last night

I've been too hungover on Mondays recently to really make a go of this.

8-12 is an okay score but it's not "unusually high", whatever that means.

It's higher than I used to get only a year or two ago. And I've not been reading up on anything.

Pro tip: I watch UC on catch up, because yeah - Mondays are a bit heavy for me.

1st round questions on UC are easier anyway iirc. last night was mostly a doddle.

This is true - by the semis it is noticeably more difficult.

As I say, I was too hungover to concentrate properly, but the 'name the dinosaur' round was too easy to pass up.

Team not getting the velociraptor right was 0_0

... and I was a 10 year old a lot longer ago than any of them!

They tried to be too clever by half saying Compsognathus. It was obviously a raptor!

ya, that was more 'the obvious dick is obviously a dick' tbf

I liked goth guy, glad goth is still a thing.

Goth Doctor!

I thought that team had kind of an annoying style of conferring

was he a goth? i thought it was some sort of Brian May wannabe toolishness.

I assumed it was a Fat Bob-esque hairstyle, with a weird goth-y cyber punk necklace thing too.

he was a wanker, even had he dressed as marilyn he'd have been a dick who ignored the right answers offered by his team in order to give a showy wrong one.

There was a dude on the other team who didn't actually say a word all night, not even to his team. I liked him.

Paxo said the captain was chosen by "who had the best hair", so something weird was going on.

xp Dinosaur round was hilarious. I would have nailed that aged eight.

there were no velociraptors when i was eight, they were retconned in the 80s