They're really taking the piss with the lack of popular music rounds this series
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)
uc?
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)
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
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)
otm
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:05 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, UC. They are usually easy, but i like to mock the teams when they get incredibly obvious ones wrong
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:06 (fourteen years ago)
Anyway darragh, you should've gone on "Challenging Times". It was only slightly tougher than Blackboard Jungle
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:07 (fourteen years ago)
age you think i'm ffs
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:09 (fourteen years ago)
It ended in 2001. Not beyond the realms of possibility?
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:12 (fourteen years ago)
i didnt hit thirclevel til 2001 tbh
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:16 (fourteen years ago)
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!!!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 08:15 (fourteen years ago)
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
"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
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 08:23 (fourteen years ago)
also Carmody is on that thread
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 09:07 (fourteen years ago)
I'm getting on average 8-12 questions right per episode this series. That seems unusually high??
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 09:26 (fourteen years ago)
that's what i was thinking last night, yeah
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 09:51 (fourteen years ago)
It means you're getting older, boys
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 09:55 (fourteen years ago)
man i was on fire last night
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 09:58 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:53 (fourteen years ago)
It's higher than I used to get only a year or two ago. And I've not been reading up on anything.
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:54 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:12 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:19 (fourteen years ago)
Team not getting the velociraptor right was 0_0
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:21 (fourteen years ago)
... 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!
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)
ya, that was more 'the obvious dick is obviously a dick' tbf
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:23 (fourteen years ago)
I liked goth guy, glad goth is still a thing.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:24 (fourteen years ago)
Goth Doctor!
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:27 (fourteen years ago)
I thought that team had kind of an annoying style of conferring
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:27 (fourteen years ago)
was he a goth? i thought it was some sort of Brian May wannabe toolishness.
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:27 (fourteen years ago)
I assumed it was a Fat Bob-esque hairstyle, with a weird goth-y cyber punk necklace thing too.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:30 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― Jolout Boy (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:31 (fourteen years ago)
Paxo said the captain was chosen by "who had the best hair", so something weird was going on.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:32 (fourteen years ago)
xp Dinosaur round was hilarious. I would have nailed that aged eight.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:37 (fourteen years ago)
there were no velociraptors when i was eight, they were retconned in the 80s
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:41 (fourteen years ago)
Ha, that's true - a Jurassic Park round.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:43 (fourteen years ago)
Indeed, I'd never heard of them till the 80s
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:44 (fourteen years ago)
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:37 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
I would have too, but didn't last night :-/ Knowledge lost...
I knew all the film year questions though.
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:45 (fourteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Vraptor-scale.png
\o
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:47 (fourteen years ago)
Let's get real here, that's just a duck with a cricket bat up its arse
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:49 (fourteen years ago)
I like the "o hai" man. He should be used to measure all dinosaurs.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:50 (fourteen years ago)
xp how the dodos became extinct?
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:50 (fourteen years ago)
They had feathers you know
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:50 (fourteen years ago)
Destroyed my childhood when i found that out
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:51 (fourteen years ago)
Looks like a knobbly Fred West, the man
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:51 (fourteen years ago)
ALL DINOSAURS HAD FEATHERS and so did trilobites
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:54 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.yousaytoo.com/gallery_image/pics/3/65/79/690703/original/remote_image_8562_0.jpg
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:54 (fourteen years ago)
Who's a pretty boy then?
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)
^ just realised what a weird thing that is to say to a parrot, budgie, cockatoo, w/e
Parrots are the least attractive of all avians.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:57 (fourteen years ago)
you don't say it to a parrot a parrot says it to you!
― conrad, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:58 (fourteen years ago)