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

TV themes for the music round rather than opera - good start

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...

He took a loooong time to recall Carrie Fisher

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/34/monkman-and-seagulls-polymathic-adventure

I love the interruption bait questions like the oolong tea one.

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...

david hockney lives!

Art students be rubbish at recognising artists non-shocker.

They had a "Hamilton" round, one of the students stomped on every question, no prob.

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 >:(

Savages.

I only knew that one because of ILB.

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).

Oh god parr-reid

Both these teams are shit

Ya

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

Chris de burgh from.terry and June now on about the normans on bbc4 btw

i'm off to bed for a read, can't handle Mondays atm

Dude I can't sell it any harder than I have tbf

that shit is my catnip normally but my eyes are saying no

I never knew the Radiohead plagiarism story but just realised it before Paxo gave the answer

Ha

Yeah, I told me band about it, they thought I was kidding.

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

I want to go back to university just to go on this, tbh.

the thought has crossed my mind

It seemed like they were making more effort to get women contestants last year, but now it's back to the usual nugatory levels

Still ended up being an all-male final tho right?

that is quite a name.

Oh my giddy aunt. I'm doomed...#UniversityChallenge pic.twitter.com/cMQuANK3O1

— Roger Tilling (@rogertilling) September 25, 2017

Roger was really going for it though, rolling the Rs and everything

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

Woodland pretty extraordinary

*searches brain for old person's popular music name*

"T-Rex?"

Ha yes

These questions are easy or is it just me tonight

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.

"Tom Jones?"

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.

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.

apart from the long awaited popular music round obv

Can't unhear Tom Jones now

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 :(

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"

Woodland is a refreshingly likeable variant on the overachieving quick-buzzer answer robot

Especially given the even-worse-than-usual gender split this year

Really like this Ulster team

Questions are piss easy tho!

OTM x2