'bwa ha ha ha no"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 06:50 (five years ago) link
lol SOAS
― liberally social (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
bonuses on 1997 AND Chris Morris, you are really spoiling us (although I didn't get the Mel C one)
New York guy basically ruining it for everyone else >:(
― kinder, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Love this show. I don’t always get everything that’s going on (being Dutch ;) but it’s almost always fun to watch. Being Dutch allowed for an LOL @ SOAS as that’s the dutch acronym for STDS.
― willem, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 11:55 (five years ago) link
I saw an amazing grunge era show in SOAS student's union. MUdhoney, Nirvana, Napalm Death and I think at l;east one other band. people improvising on stage diving incorporating the pipe that runs down the ceiling. Mark Arm going in crowd surfing and reappearing without his microphone which he needs tyo ask the crowd to return.
Shame the team from there 30 years later didn't really get a chance to start in Monday's show.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
"The Beach Boys?"
anyway, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45217265
"University Challenge duo Monkman and Seagull get TV show"
― koogs, Monday, 20 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
That pronunciation of Beach Boys was the highlight of the night.
― ailsa, Monday, 20 August 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
kill granet with rocks
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Monday, 20 August 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Jack Pollock you say?
― koogs, Monday, 27 August 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Terrifying statues thread also v useful tonight.
― koogs, Monday, 27 August 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Jack Pollock was in a rival team at our usual pub quiz yesterday. There were like six of them and two of us. We won. Clearly just getting him used to the losing feeling before having to watch himself back on the telly.
Durham were pretty good all round. Nice to see a good team who are all pretty good after the usual one-man-band teams that get all the media attention.
― ailsa, Monday, 27 August 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
The guy on the winning team looked like a character from rebel without a cause, leather jacket, hair greased back, collar turned up, stiletto in pocket. Seemed useful though.
Tonight I surprised myself with my anti-coagulant knowledge.
― koogs, Monday, 27 August 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
that guy in the brown fleece?Yeah this week much more likeable than the self-congratulatory cleverclogs of last week
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
the white carrot things
― Number None, Monday, 3 September 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
People who are really good at brainy quizzing in their second language are amazing and baffling to me.
― ailsa, Monday, 3 September 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Ohhhh...I thought he was American
― Number None, Monday, 3 September 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
yes?
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Monday, 3 September 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Thought he said he was from Berlin?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
Yeah, from Berlin.
Token brit was there to answer BAFTA round.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
I think he is actually American, but from Berlin. So we're all right.
― ailsa, Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
there were like three questions/rounds about popular culture this week
― kinder, Friday, 7 September 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
imagine living a life where you are familiar with George Ezra but not Tori Amos
― kinder, Monday, 10 September 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
can someone pick up Ollard on loan
― Number None, Monday, 10 September 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
Gee, these two sure are charismatic presenters.
― every day there's a whining choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 September 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
this is a rejected Partridge programme idea
― Number None, Monday, 17 September 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
you let one French team in...
― Number None, Monday, 24 September 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
wasn't paying attention at the beginning so I'm not sure what they were meant to be studying but I'm guessing "nothing"
― every day there's a whining choad (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 September 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
'synthesiser' is the greatest answer given on any quiz show ever.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Monday, 24 September 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
That was why Jeremy was all "Zut Alors", bloke was wearing a beret..
They (well, some) introduced themselves in 'language', to general amusement, then proceded to sit back and watch the telly...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
I met Golfinos from the other week in the pub a couple of weeks ago. Well, I say "met", he was across from us with my assorted quiz nerd mates going "look, it's Golfinos from University Challenge" in his general direction. We didn't speak to him.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
french wankers
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
I share some facebook groups with the Goldsmiths team captain, she's cool.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 29 September 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
Come on Pembroke
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 October 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
That's a moustache!
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Alt right as fuck
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 October 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
Lol kiss of death
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 October 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
"I haven't finished the question". I don't think Paxo quite understands how a buzzer quiz works.
― ailsa, Monday, 1 October 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
Was that the one where he gave one correct answer but paxo wanted two? I can see why paxo would think that was a dumb mistake, but only because he knew the whole question, which the guy didn't.
Beret girl was quietly impressive, especially with the literature, but that didn't stop the walrus leaning away from her towards the other guys every single time.
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
And he got spanked for it! "That's not what you were told... But the answer you gave is wrong so.."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 06:40 (five years ago) link
"The biologist is on the other side of you, mate!", quote my partner.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 10:10 (five years ago) link
The captain of the other team was quite pleased to be answering the Kinks questions, mostly correctly.
However, after that they went back to watching the telly, prob had some pizza or something.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 03:09 (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was so bad that even i commented on it quite early on, after he chose to pass rather than try her guess.
dickhead.
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Monday, 8 October 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
First mistake of the night, describing de Botton as a philosopher.
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 October 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
another male captain seemingly reluctant to listen to his teammate...
― Number None, Monday, 8 October 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
Yeah I wondered about this one, and she was clearly their best player.
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 October 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Before I go there has this Only Connect team got any ilxor connections?
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 October 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
second team didn't seem to get that picking the third row also completes the fourth row and you can use that as a sanity check, rather than randomly picking 4 out of 5 shakespeare-based things.
pvr didn't pick up the new series so i missed the first half...
― koogs, Monday, 22 October 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
and there's no repeat
― koogs, Monday, 22 October 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
there's iplayer. which i could use to answer this question: what was the watt west tungsten won connection? got distracted. & was the arsonists thing just a poorly formed 'joke'?
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Monday, 22 October 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
W
all can be "abbreviated" as W
― koogs, Monday, 22 October 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link