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

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.

that's the one. he was always a lovely guy, too.

straight up likeable teams tbh

Yeah..

Not getting the set up of the competition if a team getting 70 against something higher in what I'd assumed would be an elimination round has to beat 2 other teams.

How long does the competition go on if that is true? Seemed to be what Paxman said at the end. One team had to come back and beat 2 more teams while the other only had to beat one.
Would have just thought one team was out.

that was episode 26/37

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

ha, thought i recognised her

i found that attitude v cool and v appealing and was intersted

It's 37 episodes and so is Only Connect. OC was put to 37 eps to run alongside it, so the decision to then consign it to Friday nights is just baffling.

bobby seagull!

Yes. He was likeable.

I like how happy he was whenever his team got a question right.

Yes!

He was knowledgeable also.

i just liked his name. but he did well, yes. reasoned things out.

I was impressed by his route to Goodison Park, even tho I knew it straight away.

disliked bobby seagull

I know people who know Bobby Seagull irl. He seems very chirpy.

wah wah waaaaaaah

Mr Jose, 48, said his son has become known as "Seagull", a name taken from the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, because of his desire "to reach for the sky". "He has worked in a systematic way throughout the years. This is a culmination of that. He is well motivated and wants to do well."

I was so tempted to make Jonathan Livingstone jokes before I knew

Hey seagull shut the fuck up there's a good man

Not least about Johnson is her adorable lapse into Scots/Ulster when guessing

That working-out-the-numbers one, God, I thought I'd die of boredom. Paxo seems to let them away with it though.

Rudd shit ffs

Gave yerman enough time to add 120 to other numbers ffs

Rudd rallying ffs

Fuck off

roxy music and talking heads. ffs.

kids these days.

I'm angry too! What are we mad about!! lol xp?

Very soft questions throughout tbh

XP you kinda need to be watching it tbrrwu

You don't really need to be a darts expert to know that treble 20 isn't 120, ffs.

the way the girls just seemed to throw their hands up at the darts question was odd. it's just maths.

and the third of those questions (170) was by far the easiest.

And the linked sets of questions were cracked by knowing just one part

And the scores were still shit

Two poor poor teams

Yeah, no-one really covered themselves in glory. Clarke really never looked like she wanted to be there.

Anyone still watching Only Connect now they've shifted it to a Friday? Such an odd decision - they upped the number of episodes of the series to run it alongside UC then shifted it to Friday where no-one watches it.

Oh, I already said that.

Sorry we must accept your first reply

> to Friday where no-one watches it.

those of us without a social life still do!

Yeah, I watch it on a Friday too. But I think interest is dwindling. Based on nothing much, really.

I wish Only Connect had stayed on a Monday night.