No, I think you were second, we were third and I can't remember who won but it wasn't Rachael's team anyway because I was talking to them at some point.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 13:48 (eleven years ago)
Thanks to today's music round (bonus points if you predict the questions based purely on the subject, AS I DID) I've only just realised that it's Oxygene that's the music off of Limmy's Adventure Quest
― kinder, Monday, 11 August 2014 22:23 (eleven years ago)
I did say Gold and Lithium would be featured, so ten bonus points for me.
― ailsa, Monday, 11 August 2014 22:48 (eleven years ago)
these aren't rly human ppl as I know humans
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:17 (eleven years ago)
yeah that was the most useless music round i've seen yet.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 10:13 (eleven years ago)
Nearly switched off in disgust at that.
― kinder, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 13:02 (eleven years ago)
I punched a hole in my TV.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 13:07 (eleven years ago)
maybe they only like good music
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 13:21 (eleven years ago)
Go Glasgow! Woohoo!
(also, I got 17 questions right.... yes yes there were two pop music rounds, but still)
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 09:33 (eleven years ago)
easiest music rounds ever?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 14:07 (eleven years ago)
Bath an abject lesson in spreading yr subject specialists round a bit, tho they improved tbf
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 16:35 (eleven years ago)
quality match that
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:29 (eleven years ago)
yeah great stuff.
wrong thread but i don't think victoria coren is coping with the only connect transition to bbc2.
― oppet, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:37 (eleven years ago)
Am I the only one here that still expects to hear the words "Bamber Gascoigne" when the announcer says "Asking the questions....."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 06:36 (eleven years ago)
Something about this seems a bit off for some reason: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/15/gutted-university-challenge-paxman-diversity
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 08:26 (eleven years ago)
got the impression from that documentary a couple of weeks ago that they did consider diversity. if i were running the show my first fix would be fuck the collegiate system, oxbridge get one team each.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 08:32 (eleven years ago)
We're old, Mark... old and in the way *weeps bitterly*
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 11:57 (eleven years ago)
http://basementrug.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/old-and-in-the-way.jpg
I'm still not used to the 'new'version of the theme tune
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 13:16 (eleven years ago)
We watched the movie "Starter for Ten" the other day. The girls laughed uproariously at the original music and the funny looking question-master...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:05 (eleven years ago)
How do people not recognise Warm Leatherette when it's played to them?
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:21 (eleven years ago)
they just want to see paxman doing his ~popular culture~ routine.
― oppet, Monday, 22 September 2014 19:48 (eleven years ago)
Haha, the Bill & Ted question on OC.
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:15 (eleven years ago)
Tonight's hopeless team leader yelling "whore" at Paxman has to be a series highlight.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 September 2014 23:18 (eleven years ago)
Both teams were shit last night
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:38 (eleven years ago)
xpost yes, I did ponder if that was half-an-answer that he realised was wrong, or just a posh way of yelling "fuck"
Another highlight was eight students looking totally lost while The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" played.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:43 (eleven years ago)
A few sniggers from the audience too. You think they might have guessed at least, I don't know, Burroughs or something, assuming they'd heard of him.
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:48 (eleven years ago)
Is Warm Leatherette particularly well known by people outside of muso/80s alternative circles? I doubt many of my friends would recognise it.
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:52 (eleven years ago)
Pretty sure it's not that well known, but they didn't have to know the track just what writer they thought had inspired it.
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:56 (eleven years ago)
ah I see - I didn't see yesterday's episode.
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:59 (eleven years ago)
Then again, both my wife and Alice got the last question in the music round where I didn't.
The band was called "How great it is to go to hospital" or something like that.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:59 (eleven years ago)
the question was about frost, so I think he was shouting "hoar" rather than "whore". correct answer was "rime".
― mahb, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:02 (eleven years ago)
"Delacroix" is the new "Euler" as common answer
― kinder, Monday, 29 September 2014 19:42 (eleven years ago)
Yeah, I quite often get random points just by saying Delacroix. Also Brueghel, so this tactic paid off twice tonight.
Clean sweep on the walls AND the missing vowels on Only Connect for me tonight. Also spotted a few of the first couple of rounds as well.
― ailsa, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:13 (eleven years ago)
Cezanne is a good stock answer too, I find.
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 09:06 (eleven years ago)
Felt smug at OC team's inability to recognise Little Mix
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 09:34 (eleven years ago)
this is painful
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:23 (eleven years ago)
jaysus who let the Chessmen back in?
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:35 (eleven years ago)
never mind :D
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 6 October 2014 20:01 (eleven years ago)
What if they'd answered 'funk'??
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 13 October 2014 19:08 (eleven years ago)
well, I got the venerable beade!
― bets wishes (jel --), Monday, 13 October 2014 19:23 (eleven years ago)
i figure they'd've accepted funk or punk. not sure about crunk.
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 13 October 2014 19:31 (eleven years ago)
I got venerable bede too and it was a total fluke guess.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 13 October 2014 23:12 (eleven years ago)
speaking of which, anyone watching the Detectorists on BBC4?
― kinder, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 07:22 (eleven years ago)
saw the first one. second one is waiting for me at home.
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 08:57 (eleven years ago)
Yeah, I've been enjoying it. Low key but satisfying.
― sweet lids of the stars (seandalai), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:43 (eleven years ago)
Okay, I'm definitely cheering for Magdalen after Quinn's Morrissey hair swipe.
― jmm, Sunday, 26 October 2014 03:40 (eleven years ago)
answer the fucking questions ffs
paxman getting fucking soft
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 27 October 2014 20:10 (eleven years ago)
GAHHHH ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 27 October 2014 20:22 (eleven years ago)
I'm sure Bamber wouldn't let them take as long.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:23 (eleven years ago)
Ugh, too much sass in these Christmas episodes.
― jmm, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 18:36 (eleven years ago)