Not in 40s
Monkman strange
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
TV themes for the music round rather than opera - good start
― kinder, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Challenge is back. And mastermind. And only connect.
I made a good fist of both the Simon and Garfunkel and Miyazaki specialised subject questions. Tom and jerry, Catbus...
― koogs, Saturday, 29 July 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
He took a loooong time to recall Carrie Fisher
― Mark G, Saturday, 29 July 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/34/monkman-and-seagulls-polymathic-adventure
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 07:36 (six years ago) link
I love the interruption bait questions like the oolong tea one.
― jmm, Friday, 18 August 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
the In C question was this week's shouting at the tv moment. tbf, it wasn't obvious that In C was the name of the piece but...
― koogs, Friday, 18 August 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link
david hockney lives!
― koogs, Monday, 28 August 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
Art students be rubbish at recognising artists non-shocker.
― ailsa, Monday, 28 August 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
They had a "Hamilton" round, one of the students stomped on every question, no prob.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that was dull because dude recognised the first Hamilton tune so quickly that you immediatley knew he's obsessed with the thing and will get all answers right.
Also, irate rage at neither team getting that the language a group of books including "The Book Of Disquiet" and a Saramago joint were written in was Portuguese >:(
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
Savages.
― Tim, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
I only knew that one because of ILB.
― jmm, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
Funnily enough I got that one right as soon as Paxo said "The Book of Disquiet". (I didn't hear the rest of the question because I was explaining to the other half *how* I knew all about that).
― ailsa, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
Oh god parr-reid
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Both these teams are shit
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 September 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
Ya
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
But seven reasonably unassassinatable from 8 seems noteworthy
winning captain was a bit eye-rolly, the best bit of the match was when Nielsen slowly but clearly asserted herself as being their one good player
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Chris de burgh from.terry and June now on about the normans on bbc4 btw
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
i'm off to bed for a read, can't handle Mondays atm
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
Dude I can't sell it any harder than I have tbf
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
that shit is my catnip normally but my eyes are saying no
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
I never knew the Radiohead plagiarism story but just realised it before Paxo gave the answer
― kinder, Monday, 11 September 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
Ha
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I told me band about it, they thought I was kidding.
― Mark G, Monday, 11 September 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Yas I got that death valley one thanks to wasting an evening on this: mongoose murder, a fatal zipline and suicide by san francisco area park: a compendium of internet failure
― kinder, Monday, 18 September 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
I want to go back to university just to go on this, tbh.
― ailsa, Monday, 18 September 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
the thought has crossed my mind
― Number None, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
It seemed like they were making more effort to get women contestants last year, but now it's back to the usual nugatory levels
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
Still ended up being an all-male final tho right?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link
that is quite a name.
― koogs, Monday, 25 September 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Oh my giddy aunt. I'm doomed...#UniversityChallenge pic.twitter.com/cMQuANK3O1— Roger Tilling (@rogertilling) September 25, 2017
― ailsa, Monday, 25 September 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
Roger was really going for it though, rolling the Rs and everything
― kinder, Monday, 25 September 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
Fuckers and timetables
Awful people obv
The HALLOs were all beyond painful but the second teams captain was genuinely a lynchesque moment of shuddering dissonance and disquiet
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
Woodland pretty extraordinary
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
*searches brain for old person's popular music name*
"T-Rex?"
― ailsa, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
Ha yes
These questions are easy or is it just me tonight
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
I got loads right, I thought it was one of the easier episodes, or at least stuffed full of things that come up in quizzes a lot. I stopped counting my own score years ago, perhaps I'll start again.
― ailsa, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
"Tom Jones?"
― koogs, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
tbf, we actually remarked during the clip that his voice did go a bit Tom Jonesy at one point, which I'd never noticed before.
― ailsa, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
I thought it was really hard today but I know nothing about stuff from the past. tbh the only thing I know about is iso codes.
― kinder, Monday, 23 October 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
apart from the long awaited popular music round obv
Can't unhear Tom Jones now
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
They come out of the same vocal tradition innit, except Starr was immersed in it and Jones worshipping it from afar.
Good performance from my homegirl Varela, despite clear defeat :(
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
If you'd never heard the records, you'd imagine a Tyrannosaurus Rex's singing voice being like "WAR! HUNFF! " etc, right?
not really "dugareedug a dugareedug redug"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
Woodland is a refreshingly likeable variant on the overachieving quick-buzzer answer robot
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Especially given the even-worse-than-usual gender split this year
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
Really like this Ulster team
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Questions are piss easy tho!
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link