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

that did scan as pretty odd but i guessed it was some bohemian german medieaval composer, dvorak answer seems strange too but i don't know enough about dvorak and i assumed it was some strange pseudo-archaic juvenilia

not the first time they've misattributed a classical music excerpt iirc

that was brutal

Argh, fucking Jamie Karran on Only Connect *again*

Lol I know. Is it weird that i'm finding them slightly endearing this time? The Qs were way hard this week

aye, I only got the connecting wall and the missing vowels, don't think I got anything in the first two rounds other than the lib dem leaders :-( Still not finding him and his pals endearing though. Also they thought Paul Simon was Bob Marley...

I got, like, 12 right or something, but that was cos they had rounds on Alan Moore and pop music.

oh i was talking about UC

Argh, fucking Jamie Karran on Only Connect *again*

he looks like an egg, onto which has been drawn boris johnson's face and robert smith's hair, but i don't dislike him. but he needs to stop wearing his futuristic mirrored shades around his neck like he was some nu-rave warrior.

His worrying lack of knowledge of things medical make me terrified of the fact that he's a doctor.

too busy quizzin' to learn obvs

Those gobshites again!

<plays "I can see for miles">

"Is it the Beatles?"

Another stupid spelling challenge in 'succinct'. And that lot stormed their way to the only connect final.

There is an interesting inventory of songs used by NASA to wake up astronauts here:

http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf

<plays "I can see for miles">

"Is it the Beatles?"

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo)

TBF I'm equally clueless when it's anything but pop.

Funny, the default (noted upthread, or was it in http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&;threadid=25210 ?) is usually The Who.

tsk

McGrath out to prove

Steve 'Fighting Fantasy' Jackson on the Christmas special right now.

...and he's never seen Bad Santa.

And they're all hopeless at basic maths. Enjoyed Llwyd's no nonsense way with the buzzer though.

Given how piss-poor everyone was in the final of Only Connect, if I wasn't so morbidly terrified of people mocking me the way I mock Jamie Karran (seriously, how the holy fuck is this guy a practising doctor - I don't think he's even stumbled within a mile of any answer requiring medical or scientific knowledge), I'd be well up for getting a team together and going for it.

Imagine NONE of them having heard of the Avengers!

Is it just me or was he final a bit easy this year? We got both walls completely and nearly all the connections before the one point mark.

Aye, us too. Was definitely easier.

Like, unwinnable games should've been a gimme for game geeks after the first clue, yet somehow they didn't get it.

Just watched last night's UC, my word they were all pish at maths, eh?

Srsly

squealed with excitement when Steve Jackson was on, just shoot me

these senile fuckers tonight

I hate all the all the jocular ribbing of these UC celeb specials SO MUCH

had to switch off halfway through

UC should never be "fun"

Stop joining in, Jeremy

Unwinnable Games? I can think of Old Maid...

Global thermonuclear war

That was in it! (well, something from War Games anyway)

pretty muchy any family board game at Christmas

Ha I was complaining about the festive specials on Facebook today, I said it was like a home video of the world's most loathsome family playing charades on boxing day

They are all appalling, and all incredibly bad at basic maths, even the science dudes.

Jamie Karran can't even do ebay listings without making me want to hurt him:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trophy-from-BBC-game-show-Pointless-/301051014773?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_TV_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item461809ee75

> Who knows, you could be buying the trophy of a future Chaser or Egghead!

saw both over christmas. such smug gits.

what an obnoxious tosser, he shd have it revoked

what the fuck are those stupid nu rave specs he always wears around his neck???

if we had a resident advisor system in the UK i could see him never leaving university

<3 the round in which one answer was Doug Yule. Nobody got it right, obvs.

"It's Geneva and vengeance."

"Cosine." "Cosine."

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, DUSTY FUCKING SPRINGFIELD

Lots of good stuff today.

yeah, Robert Nozick and Four Quartets made me happy

Man we got more than the Reading team by ourselves!

Strangely, I was being told about George Michael's 'Being Boring' pick on Desert Island Discs only three days ago and then it comes up on UC.