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)
You have to say it to the parrot first tho
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110727-coslog-xiaotingia-9a.photoblog600.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:01 (fourteen years ago)
Silly
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:02 (fourteen years ago)
I knew someone who had a parrot who used to squawk "Say Hello", because everyone used to go up to it and shout "Say Hello!"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)
was watching some old QI the other night and they reckoned that parrots have never been observed imitating sounds or movements in the wild, its only a behaviour in captive birds. Sinister.
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:11 (fourteen years ago)
remember some prog with footage of some birds in the wild doing the sound of trees falling down and stuff and then after they'd been filming them for a while they would do the camera autofocus sound too
― conrad, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:13 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:14 (fourteen years ago)