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
'The man who fell to earth'?
― Mark G, Monday, 26 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
'john lennon and the beatles?'
(syd barrett and pink floyd)
students these days...
― koogs, Monday, 10 October 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
I didn't get that :/ but I did get Peter Gabriel before the music even started.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Monday, 10 October 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
xpost are awesome
― legitimate concerns about ducks (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 October 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, "Octopus" is sort of Lennon-ish, e.g. "Yellow Submarine", I admit I smiled..
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
tbf when they have the 50 year-olds on in the summer they always identify current pop stars immediately
― legitimate concerns about ducks (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 October 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
bloke dressed as one of blake's seven gets the sci-fi movie still starter question...
and then they fail abysmally at the 3 follow up questions.
― koogs, Monday, 7 November 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
switched over to bbc2 after reading that post to see this outfit for myself, and he doesn't disappoint
― soref, Monday, 7 November 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
second-round questions are always harder than first round, right? Gets more boring when I barely get any of them and the music rounds are all sodding opera
― kinder, Monday, 7 November 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
I thought that was mostly horrible tonight in terms of questions. Also the first wall on Only Connect was tough as fuck.
― ailsa, Monday, 7 November 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
there were two rounds right after i turned on which were dickens novels and then sci-fi movies... i think that would've been my entire contribution for the evening.
― koogs, Monday, 7 November 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
I got the sci fi movies, got one music round ("which Austrian composer..." "probably Mozart"), guessed two of the Dickenses, basically fell asleep through all the sciencey questions.
― ailsa, Monday, 7 November 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Dickens is one of my major University Challenge weaknesses
― Number None, Monday, 7 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
'Which British Composer... '
(All together now) Benjamin Brittain!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
xxxpost the Only Connect walls and the last two missing vowels rounds were impossible last night but I was very proud of myself for getting one of the connection rounds correct on two clues ("songs covered by solo Spice Girls")
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link
xpost, yeah, said that without even hearing the music :-)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link