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

Ah this was reasonably fun bar circumstances somewhat beyond my control

mike t-diva, I had thought NV had played the losing finalists rather than the winners (I know both captains of that series now, including ukulele dude who I remember causing a kerfuffle on here - I didn't know them then).

Anyway, small world.

Ah, you're right, ukulele dude was on the runner-up team.

I'm totally calling him ukulele dude next time I see him.

missing vowels round is my main skill in life. can someone tell me how to make my millions from this thanks

my secondary skill is guessing answers to maths questions on UC. usually 1, 2 or 0, but I did correctly guess 137 the other week.

fucking hell, students can't even identify Radiohead these days

No surprises

One of the OC teams last night didn't get New Order as the last in the sequence, having been given Stiff Kittens>Warsaw>Joy Division.

No Tom Waits recognition smh

William Gibson, you idiots.

Loved Basu’s halfhearted “Neon... Genesis Evangelion?”

On the other hand GLEN CAMPBELL

"KATE BUSH?" also.

"Notorious BIG?"

and another coincidence - both OC and UC mentioned Judith beheading Holofernes, which i hadn't heard of before tonight.

it was a popular subject matter for Renaissance painters (most famously in the Gentelischi and Caravaggio versions)

On OC they mis-identified a picture of David and Goliath and on UC it was a statue

How long does it take to say. James Brown?

stunning examples of two prime bad captain behaviours last night, i do love mark strongs gentle performance as charles dance tho

TM MY

Never mind, our Ailsa sailed thru

I missed the final score, what was it?

TM MY was just as the buzzer sounded, nobody got a chance to answer it. The rest of the missing vowels stank, all far too long and complicated.

Ah, we did OK on that round as we oft do.

Missing vowels was a bitch, and that delay on the broadcast version as opposed to how it plays out live does no-one any favours. I genuinely thought I was the best ever at it in front of the telly, and turns out I'm really average after all. The Rugrats Movie was a brilliant answer.

Oh, I had "The Great Gatsby", our Alice had "The Great Showman", we fell about when we found it was "The Rugrats Movie".

As I say, it does the viewers a favour, as we get a chance to answer before you guys get in with yr buzzers, otherwise no chance.

Sorry, I meant as a viewer it lulls you into thinking you could be good at it on the telly, then reality hits when you're squinting at a screen the other side of the studio at things you totally think "I'd be screaming at the telly from my couch, wtf is going on?" then you think you were really quick and then you watch it on telly and you're glacially slow.

FWIW, we recorded a year ago. I paused at the start of our wall last night to let my other half have a crack at it, and didn't even spot the one I'd got myself straight away until he'd seen it :-(

i got one of your questions one step before you did, fwiw (bikini...). but that and 1 (one) missing vowel were it. i suck.

28-19 btw

Aw no, I missed last night's show. Go go Ailsa anyway.

That Eastenders question was some all-time Ailsa magic. "Because of COURSE she knows that," we both said.

The rest of the missing vowels stank, all far too long and complicated.

I knew it was going to be a bad missing vowels round because there was so much chat and singing beforehand.

1st 2 rounds OC were impossible this wk!

i got the Sunday one

Haven't watched this week's but tbh I'm happy if I get one or two. Was happy to see A again last week. I want to see Noodle's ep!

Think i've got it saved somewhere, i'll have a look some time. Let me just say i'm glad we didn't play Ailsa's team :D

I got the Sunday one after 2 clues, but by and large I was glad that wasn't one of our shows.

Noodle's show is probably on YouTube, but the YouTube clips are a bit shonky in that they're cut off and you can't see the clues along the bottom, which somewhat ruins the playalongability

Rampant high-fiving from one team this week. Up or down with this kind of thing?

wtf with the pinata?

oh wait i guess it was introduced in the first two minutes that i always skip. seemed like it had turned into shooting stars for a minute.

300th episode. We recorded the 299th and saw it in the rafters and thanked our lucky stars we weren't involved in piñata madness. I have a special 300th episode badge somewhere just for being in the building when they recorded it.

The high-fiving on UC is toe-curling. It's toe-curling in and of itself, but they're so terrible at it.

it's all instigated by Golfinos though

i liked the pinata. she gave it a good old whack during the credits.

two connections that they didn't get and a row of the wall that they didn't see (Loo, Rave...). probably my most successful episode of the season.

"It is a word one but you'd have to be a genius to spot it"

*cough*

*cough cough*

I can't imagine seeing a more exultant reaction to a set of questions on Jean Racine

That was great. Especially when they suddenly went "oh, maybe we don't know everything about Racine" half way through the first question.

The word "Trigger" makes me think of Tigger, so

I didn't get that one. I did get the bird one on the wall immediately, which I was pleased about. Plus I got that one of the groups was people who had been exiled, which I was also pleased with (even though I didn't get all the right people).

I was pretty pleased that I got the electric avenue, guns of brixton, lambeth, london one.

wow, well done. despite living in lambeth for 12 years and knowing all the songs and thinking 'hmm electric avenue is in brixton...' i didn't get it. genius credentials revoked.