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

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I only knew that one because of ILB.

jmm, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 14:23 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

Oh god parr-reid

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 18:38 (eight years ago)

Both these teams are shit

Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 September 2017 19:20 (eight years ago)

Ya

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:06 (eight years ago)

But seven reasonably unassassinatable from 8 seems noteworthy

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:06 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:09 (eight years ago)

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

Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:11 (eight years ago)

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

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:13 (eight years ago)

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

Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:13 (eight years ago)

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

kinder, Monday, 11 September 2017 20:30 (eight years ago)

Ha

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 11 September 2017 20:31 (eight years ago)

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

Mark G, Monday, 11 September 2017 20:32 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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

ailsa, Monday, 18 September 2017 19:57 (eight years ago)

the thought has crossed my mind

Number None, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:01 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 10:44 (eight years ago)

that is quite a name.

koogs, Monday, 25 September 2017 19:50 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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

kinder, Monday, 25 September 2017 22:55 (eight years ago)

four weeks pass...

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 (eight years ago)

Woodland pretty extraordinary

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 19:17 (eight years ago)

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

"T-Rex?"

ailsa, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:22 (eight years ago)

Ha yes

These questions are easy or is it just me tonight

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 19:24 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

"Tom Jones?"

koogs, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:51 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

apart from the long awaited popular music round obv

kinder, Monday, 23 October 2017 20:46 (eight years ago)

Can't unhear Tom Jones now

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 20:49 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 13:38 (eight years ago)

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

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 13:39 (eight years ago)

Really like this Ulster team

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:10 (eight years ago)

Questions are piss easy tho!

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:13 (eight years ago)

OTM x2

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:17 (eight years ago)

Look I'm not saying that question set was a plant but....

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:23 (eight years ago)

lol Titus Andronicus, the band, got a question!

André Ryu (Neil S), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:27 (eight years ago)

Bruce Willis?

Mark G, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 13:55 (eight years ago)

He was sat next to the bloke from Future Islands

Mark G, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 13:56 (eight years ago)

How did they miss the German physicist/1905/photoelectric effect question?

jmm, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 13:58 (eight years ago)

too easy, self doubt

Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 14:01 (eight years ago)

how did they miss that the second question after 'the lady's not for burning' would also include 'burning'? I don't (didn't) know what a present participle is and I still figured it out.

Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 14:04 (eight years ago)

kids these days

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 14:24 (eight years ago)

This jumping lad tho

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 6 November 2017 20:25 (eight years ago)

That was a bit of a thrashing. Serves them right for thinking Cardigan is in Scotland.

ailsa, Monday, 6 November 2017 21:02 (eight years ago)

Really impressive right hand side of a team alright

And jumpy guy

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 6 November 2017 21:03 (eight years ago)


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