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

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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

Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

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)

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)

aye that's right

conrad, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

scored 115 points
or 17 answers

though I can't tell you what the scientific alphabet equivalent of the words asparagus or bananas are.

the pinefox, Monday, 12 September 2011 19:37 (fourteen years ago)

that round was easy but unfair to the other team. took far too long stitching together the answers for 9 and 10 letter veg . if I was on the other team I'd be raging

is it hrostep? (cozen), Monday, 12 September 2011 19:40 (fourteen years ago)

Is this the thread where we say well done/commiserations to NV?

emil.y, Monday, 12 September 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

Come And Have A Go

Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 12 September 2011 20:06 (fourteen years ago)

That fruit/elements round was fucking infuriating. Genuinely never seen anyone get that long to confer before. Paxman chuckling away

Number None, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ terrible question

Stories from Hull City, Stories from Hull FC (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 06:18 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

'awright'

Shut your face and get off the show, son, you don't say 'awright' to paxman

occupy wall street 2: rummy never sleeps (darraghmac), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:04 (fourteen years ago)

don't watch this but there's not a lot to choose between some 'student oik' and prissy fuckhead paxman

Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

cute posh dr is killing it imo

occupy wall street 2: rummy never sleeps (darraghmac), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

oi mates some big brained bird is etc etc

Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

that was a massacre, ffs, paxman should have stopped it in the fifth

occupy wall street 2: rummy never sleeps (darraghmac), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

i got so many right tonight, i should have kept count. perhaps my greatest performance.

jed_, Monday, 31 October 2011 21:23 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

Just catching up on this week's episode and I really want those smug fucks from UCL to be eliminated. Their endless, chortling conferring sessions are really, really annoying. They're getting one more chance thanks to whatever the hell the qualifying system is now though.

Number None, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:29 (fourteen years ago)

Hear hear

Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:51 (fourteen years ago)

"GVIME"!

I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:39 (fourteen years ago)

Seriously pissed off that I didn't get that one in time.

I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:41 (fourteen years ago)

Also, Paxo gave Manchester way too many benefits of the doubt.

I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

he has his favourites

Number None, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

On Challenge +1 you have just missed Zaphod Beeblebrox guy giving 'jizz' as an answer on a repeat of Pointless.

ailsa, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

just caught the last seconds of that episode yesterday. I hate him so.

Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

he's just this guy, y'know?

FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

I've noticed they seem to have totally done away with the popular music questions on UC which is quite vexing. Hasn't been one in ages

Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxA0a5G6ccg

Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

Jamie Karran @cee_eph

i can't believe i saluted at the end of that #universitychallenge i can see why people think i am a huge twat :P

^ Zaphod Beeblebrox dude on twitter. He seems quite alright, actually.

nate woolls, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

Manchester's captain is actively ruining the show for me now

Number None, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

wasn't paying attention tbh

Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:27 (fourteen years ago)

It's the same deal as UCL. They have these jokey conferring sessions that last forever (which get worse the further ahead they get) and Paxman totally indulges them.

Number None, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:32 (fourteen years ago)

it's hard to judge how bad it is with quiz shows because those gaps are edited to suit the show pacing

Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

it's his face too tbh

Number None, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

and his voice

Number None, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

I do sympathise w/ Jamie Karran, it's not that 'it's harder when you are up here' as most quizmasters say, but the temptation to get silly/daft can be huge...

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

he actually wasn't as bad compared to this dude. Still no pop music round as well

Number None, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:40 (fourteen years ago)


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