It's my life's work to cultivate an eyebrow like that
― kinder, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
two captains separated at birth
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Monday, 7 March 2016 20:02 (eight years ago) link
I liked that movie round
only got the last artist though
― Number None, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
Handy enough this week I thought, prob meaning the question were well below the intellectual range of the overlords
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Monday, 7 March 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
I got the fastest interruption, when Paxo said 'Bodrum" I said 'Halicarnassus'.
― Mark G, Monday, 7 March 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
I figured it out
Johnny Evans
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Monday, 14 March 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
Bennett still v intersting obv
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Monday, 14 March 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
Only 9/20, less than 50% :(
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/18/can-you-beat-the-boffins-take-the-hardest-university-challenge-quiz-ever
So is it an oxbridge final? Fuck that shit.
― Just can't get Eno, ugh (ledge), Monday, 18 April 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
8 for me. Some near misses, a couple I should have known but couldn't think of.
― emil.y, Monday, 18 April 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Yes and yes. Also I'm not sure I can bear to watch Peterhouse again.
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 18 April 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
12, not bad for a Monday
― great sage equal to heaven (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 April 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
Well, that was a touch one-sided. And I get irrationally furious when Paxo refers to Powell as Oscar, it's quite unnecessarily paternalistic.
― ailsa, Monday, 18 April 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
Is that the lowest team score ever?
― Mark G, Monday, 18 April 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
xp Wasn't Paxman just making fun of Woods?
Woods was my favourite this season. Glad to see her win.
― jmm, Monday, 18 April 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
I liked Woods too. Plus I can't abide all-male teams, am always rooting for them to fuck up.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 18 April 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Whatever it was, it was annoying. He did it earlier in the series too. Also Peterhouse seemed to get longer before he gets exasperated with the time taking conferring. I did feel he was quite well-disposed towards them xp
Woods was great, yes. Really good at going "shall I just say that?" and listening to the rest of the team as well as being pretty useful at answering questions. Felt sorry for Clegg as he'd been really good the rest of the series, but he and his team just never got started.
― ailsa, Monday, 18 April 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
I forgot about Brejevs. He was really good too. Unfortunately his team was not as strong.
― jmm, Monday, 18 April 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
It's baaack
― kinder, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
Ireland
― kinder, Monday, 12 September 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
omg
― Number None, Monday, 12 September 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
his name was Boyle too...
― Number None, Monday, 12 September 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
Wait what!
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Monday, 12 September 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
Easy mistake, anybody from outside Eurasia could've made it
― you can't drowned a duck (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 September 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
I think he said Åland which is a pretty good guess IMO since the answer was Gotland
― Neil S, Monday, 12 September 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
ah that seems right darnit
― Number None, Monday, 12 September 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I heard Åland which seemed a fair enough wrong guess to me and was quite surprised to see so many folk going "lol Ireland"
― ailsa, Monday, 12 September 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
oh.
― kinder, Monday, 12 September 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Paxo almost did one but then he thought about it, I'm positive.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 September 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
couldn't tell whether it was the Paxo stink-eye or the Paxo good guess response
― Neil S, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:02 (seven years ago) link
This cunt
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
Hope he dies
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Just watched it, so angry with interrupting goat woman right now.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
I love it when you get a super intense dude
Also why are British composers always Elgar?
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Same reason Hungarian ones are always Bartok.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
just once they should go with bálint bakfark
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
It's never Saint-Saens.
― jmm, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Also good when they go for Nordic composers rather than specifically Norwegian, usually that means it's Sibelius rather than Grieg.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Euler's the only Swiss physicist
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
The only one who posts to ILX anyway.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
xpost it's sometimes Bernoulli, just to annoy me.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
Seems a bit odd that one of the key figures of an independent Finnish cultural identity always gets tagged as "Nordic" and never "Finnish". (PS I know v little about these things so maybe it's not odd at all, he was from a Swedish-speaking family and all)
Hungarian is 60/40 Liszt/Bartok I reckon, and Czech is usually Dvorak. There was a whole round on Hungarian composers recently iirc; the team guessed Liszt wrongly to the first two and didn't get the last one, which finally was Liszt. I felt their pain.
Always want "English composer" to be Finzi just for the not-English surname to throw off guesses.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 10:22 (seven years ago) link
... or Holst.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
Goehr!
(There's two but Alexander's dad Walter actual was German)
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
British is always Britten, Elgar, Williams, or Handel or something from the Planets Suite. If you say Saint-Saens for a French composer, you're bound to get one answer right.
Delighted to discover I work with an acquaintance of the guy who called Jeremy Paxman last year.
Bálint Bakfark is an incredible name.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
sorry, that is "called Jeremy Paxman a whore"
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:37 (seven years ago) link
This is too bad. One of the SOAS team members died since the filming.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem114853.html
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
:-(
Also a contestant on Pointless this week died since filming: http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/15/pointless-fast-tracked-an-episode-so-contestant-suffering-cancer-could-watch-it-before-she-died-6130754/
― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
ah that's so sad
― kinder, Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
FUCK OFF HAT BOY, YOU SHOULD NOT GET POINTS FOR SCOTTISH "NATIONALIST" PARTY, THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO ME
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Monday, 26 September 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I guess Bowie died in vain
― Number None, Monday, 26 September 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link