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

Classic thread.

Inimitable

No LJ though : (

Keen to hear his thoughts.

do they have tasers?

― bitch hooligan, pussy ass nobrain dårk (country matters), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark

irl lol

hahah

i hope this doesn't mean Trimble now takes the Nuts offer

rules of the game and filming schedule are made pretty clear at the audition stage and teams have a reserve player so these guys have no excuse

oh except they're the master race of course

I am interested in the opinion of Fabio Capello, Pavel Nedved, Fabio Cannavaro and a few members of the Bullingdon Club for good measure.

teams have a reserve player so these guys have no excuse

Do they? That, then.

teams have a reserve player so these guys have no excuse

Do they? That, then.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:02 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, they do. Believe this rule was introduced when one team had a fundamentalist Christian in the team who wouldn't go to recordings on a Sunday.

This Corpus Christi mob also changed their captain in the course of the series - which I've never seen happen before

and they're all Satanists

I get the impression you're not taking this matter very seriously

i hope this doesn't mean Trimble now takes the Nuts offer

I hope it does - time to put all those morons in their place. Or something.

The Unionist bias on this thread is shocking.

Actually, bowler hats and sash would make good props for a Nuts photoshoot

What I would give for a suggest ban every time someone uses the term 'Meejah'.

You can have one for free if you like.

Buy one get two free

average age 30? fack off.

york's main girl was some kind o' something.

Kinda sorta.

We've thrashed thru the idea of a handicapping system for oldsters before but this wd discriminate against the Open University and presumably there's the odd Oxbridge college for the menopausal and time rich too?

she was hot.

st georges' team leader looked like the bastard offspring of paxo and lady di.

this was average age 30 vs 19.

lol i mean im a 29-y-o postgraduate student, and if i went on (with some science dudes lol) i'd rock the shit. but i wouldn't go on!

so maybe my compromise position is allowing mature students, i.e. doing their first degrees.

xpost

I agree the age ish is a problem but wd allow one post-grad per team so I don't have to give up my dream of killing on this one day.

Unless they do a "The Unprofessionals" special series.

yeah watching this just thinking average of 30 a bit of a swizz and then they had all they anatomical questions and that too. a bit much

Joe Satriani in the music round- nice.

got every one of those questions (possibly first round where that was e'er true)

I only got the Neil Innes one, but was thrown by Paxman saying (or me mishearing) that the rip-off was from 1984.

Does Joe Satriani actually exist? I thought he was an archetype of self-indulgent masturbatory noodling invented by nervous indie fux to justify their lack of instrumental talent.

I thought the Satriani one was ripped off by Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader. Got the rest of them though.

wasn't that toploader song a cover of an old soul hit though?

Oh probably, I don't pay much attention to the career of Toploader tbh.

doubtless a wise approach!

posh kids struggling w/tube map :D

and pop music.

and barnes wallis

curses. the one tv show I can't seem to download from the US :( well, this and Only Connect.

Only Connect is so good, I love how it makes University Challenge feel like Deal Or No Deal

only connect not as smart as it thinks it is nowhere near as smart as victoria coren's voice is annoying

i wish i could find a youtube of the time they played derrick may "strings of life" and asked the contestant "what genre of music is this seminal track credited with creating?" and this geeky dude was like....."synth?" and an obviously exasperated paxman is like "techno!!!"

(i lied about him being exasperated)

coren would seem marginally less awkward if only connect had a studio audience.

Don't care, WS

she's the thinking man's thinking man's totty

Only Connect isn't as smart as it likes to think it is tho. I auditioned with a friend's team for this series - didn't get on :( but aren't that bothered tbh.

you never liked her anyway

(it was really inconvenient and I probly couldn't have made the recordings but I just mean that much as I enjoy the show it's not a life's ambition to be on it unlike University Challenge.)

ireland needs a UV i feel, but i dunno hve we a presenter with the necessary imposing manner.