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

It's never Saint-Saens.

Also good when they go for Nordic composers rather than specifically Norwegian, usually that means it's Sibelius rather than Grieg.

Euler's the only Swiss physicist

The only one who posts to ILX anyway.

xpost it's sometimes Bernoulli, just to annoy me.

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.

... or Holst.

Goehr!

(There's two but Alexander's dad Walter actual was German)

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.

sorry, that is "called Jeremy Paxman a whore"

This is too bad. One of the SOAS team members died since the filming.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem114853.html

:-(

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/

ah that's so sad

FUCK OFF HAT BOY, YOU SHOULD NOT GET POINTS FOR SCOTTISH "NATIONALIST" PARTY, THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO ME

I guess Bowie died in vain

'The man who fell to earth'?

'john lennon and the beatles?'

(syd barrett and pink floyd)

students these days...

I didn't get that :/ but I did get Peter Gabriel before the music even started.

xpost are awesome

Yeah, "Octopus" is sort of Lennon-ish, e.g. "Yellow Submarine", I admit I smiled..

tbf when they have the 50 year-olds on in the summer they always identify current pop stars immediately

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.

switched over to bbc2 after reading that post to see this outfit for myself, and he doesn't disappoint

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

I thought that was mostly horrible tonight in terms of questions. Also the first wall on Only Connect was tough as fuck.

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.

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.

Dickens is one of my major University Challenge weaknesses

'Which British Composer... '

(All together now) Benjamin Brittain!

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")

xpost, yeah, said that without even hearing the music :-)

Also got Spice Girl solo songs, celebrity mugshots, Scottish election results and capitals of countries with Guinea in their names all after two. The sequences round was a total blowout.

xpost again

I knew the tie-breaker the second he said "Kullervo", so I feel like I won this episode.

Hacker T Dog on Celeb Mastermind tonight. might win it too.

(second by 1 point - 18 v 19)

Good, I hate that fucking thing.

goth historian

i love her so much

yay for token City of Dug Up Pavements 2017 questions

This programme was tremendous!

I don't know what koogs' comment above means.

I did enjoy watching the vivid expressions of a couple of the winning team.

Simon Armitage was remarkably bad - I imagine there has been some kind of twitterstorm about his poor performance.

PF: http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/13810742.Medieval_treasure__Meet_Janina_Ramirez___the_woman_making_history_hip/

Everyone I knew who did Anglo-Saxon/Norse/Celtic was some kind of goth

ha

I nearly did an Anglo-Saxon evening class this year, but then I baulked at paying £300/realised I was too lazy to do enough work to get £300 worth of learning out of the course

guess that makes me a cheapskate slacker goth-wannabe

(have not seen the prog yet, have residual crush on S. Armitage or at least his voice from the Mark & Lard Graveyard Shift days so I shall prepare to be disappointed, I suppose)

I didn't think Armitage was so useless - he got two Geoffrey Hill questions right!

Paul Ross very impressive yet still very annoying; quite a feat.

one managed by most contestants tbph

It did come across rather like he was determined not to look stupid (which he didn't anyway) - so much "I'm not sure but I think it's...." then passing to someone else so that a potentially wrong answer didn't come out of his mouth if at all possible. I used to play in a quiz team with someone very like him, it's beyond irritating. Just admit you don't know everything! It's OK!

must've been awful for the Bristol captain being forced to be there against her will

oh it was working for her

have we got a different thread for The Chase? guess which of this week's contestants was a uni triv machine playing friend of mine.

I assume it was yon Terry dude? He plays in a quiz league team with a friend of mine.