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

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

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

lol Titus Andronicus, the band, got a question!

Bruce Willis?

He was sat next to the bloke from Future Islands

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

too easy, self doubt

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.

kids these days

This jumping lad tho

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

Really impressive right hand side of a team alright

And jumpy guy

I can't stand ostentatious conferrers

Bit dull this week

Can someone explain to me the nominate

I mean it's not a thing is it

Yet some captains do it. Usually odious ones. Is it a hospital pass for answers they don't fancy?

I think it's usually used for things they can't pronounce or are frightened they've misheard.

yup

occasionally a celebrity they're too embarrassed to admit they've heard of