https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
aye that's right
― conrad, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
scored 115 pointsor 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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Is this the thread where we say well done/commiserations to NV?
― emil.y, Monday, 12 September 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Come And Have A Go
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 12 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ terrible question
― Stories from Hull City, Stories from Hull FC (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
'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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
cute posh dr is killing it imo
― occupy wall street 2: rummy never sleeps (darraghmac), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
oi mates some big brained bird is etc etc
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
i got so many right tonight, i should have kept count. perhaps my greatest performance.
― jed_, Monday, 31 October 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Hear hear
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
"GVIME"!
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
he has his favourites
― Number None, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
just caught the last seconds of that episode yesterday. I hate him so.
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
he's just this guy, y'know?
― FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxA0a5G6ccg
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Manchester's captain is actively ruining the show for me now
― Number None, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
wasn't paying attention tbh
― Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
it's his face too tbh
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
and his voice
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
well, tbf, most of the time he had more of a clue than the two on his right. The older dude on his left just about paid his way too.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh he knows his stuff, not denying that. No need to turn it into a performance though
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
I'm so glad to be back home and able to watch this again. Something very comforting about it. My version of UC is to guess the subject of each student before they're introduced - I'm getting shit hot at this. The girls are always English or Classics except for the really obviously Maths ones (I say this with love). Team captains are slightly "trendy" or at least far too confident compared to the others and usually studying Politics.Despite not knowing 75%+ of the answers and being extremely impressed when the students do, I count it as a victory over all of them (like conkers) if I get ones they don't - which weirdly are often the only ones I know (they don't). E.g. dressmaking or Japanese food or popular music (if it's an opera one it's game over for me).
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
ha, that game is fun, yes. such pride when you boldly go all out guessing a very specific subject and get it right.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
one time we were watching Mastermind and as the show started i remarked that it was weird someone hadn't done The Wire as a specialist subject yet. As they were announcing the contestants the camera settled on a youngish vaguely trendy type, before John Humphrys could say anything i announced in solemn tones: "The television series The Wire" only to be echoed seconds later by the man himself. I felt like a god.
― Number None, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
haha!
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
The girls are always English or Classics except for the really obviously Maths ones (I say this with love)
I don't know whether to be angry with you about this, or angry at the world. I'm thinking you, seeing as I watch this programme all the time, and this definitely doesn't seem to be right.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Really? I have watched it very rarely in the past three or so years but I used to call it as a joke and then it very often seemed to be true. I say this as a woman with a science / maths background whose female friends are mostly engineers, which is why I found it noticeable that this is rarely reflected in u.c.
― kinder, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 08:41 (eleven years ago) link
Papaphilippopoulos Vs Tsczuczuk-Smith
FIGHT!!!!
― jed_, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
except they were on the same (winning) team...
― Mark G, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
those songwriting teams were too easy
― Number None, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
and they still didn't get them
― Number None, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
idiots
it seems my only field of excellence is in food-related questions
― kinder, Monday, 15 October 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Lolled at them thinking Harold Pinter and someone equally unlikely (Tom Stoppard?) was a contemporary of Inigo Jones.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
kids don't even know their Oasis b-sides these days...
― Number None, Monday, 19 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link