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

!!!

Watching now. So cool.

Cheers guys. There was a hell of a lot of editing, I was stuck inside the studio/green room for 15 hours on the hottest day of the year.

Still, at least I'm now mates with Barry from Eastenders.

which is only one step from Ricky Gervais...

FFS! Why didn't I know about this beforehand? AILSA?

I posted it on Facebook, but I was pretty much in denial about the whole thing.

Monkman totally Monkmans it up for the camera, he's really quite quiet

The highlight of my entire day was when Bobby found out that the warmup guy also did warmups for Love Island and asked him so many questions about Love Island that the guy was weirded out. He kept trying to get back to do his audience bit but Bobby was all "wait! What's Caroline Flack really like? Do you know in advance what they're going to show? Do you get to see everything that doesn't go on TV?" and the guy's all "I just do jokes with the audience..."

Big Suze!

absolute joke how long these pisstakers are taking without any intervention from the big dog

I don't wanna be that guy* but I am so weary of Richard Osman

*I do wanna be that guy

Any reason in particular?

It was very interesting to see how little Wadham pissed about with discussions when they weren't in the lead.

I dunno he's everywhere lately and a shade smug and possibly melty

the best thing of the decade thing Osman did was long and unnecessary but usually he improves everything he's on.

Christmas only connect specials have been a treat, UC less so, even if the questions were pitched at just about my level. couldn't be bothered with big fat quiz of the decade.

Really enjoyed Richard Coles and one other from his team dishing out defeat to a series of Oxbridge alums (including some political journalists I dislike and Allison Pearson, who must be the stupidest woman ever admitted by Cambridge). Shame the final aired on the day he buried his husband, though.

I share Suzy's approval of the victory of Leeds University over Wadham College - a dreadful, reprehensible, though effective team.

I was thrilled by COLES and GEE's excellence in overcoming them.

Was Allison Pearson really on this series though? That sounds 'divisive' - I mean she is practically at Katy Hopkins level by now.

Funnily enough Osman posted something during the election about the Con party wanting to privatize the NHS. I have tried to be more positive about him since.

Osman is a centrist melt. I love him on Pointless but dislike his presentation style solo - I think he's a great straight man but a bad frontman?

Shame the final aired on the day he buried his husband, though.

Ah damn, this is really sad.

those questions where victoria shakes her head and wonders if anyone managed it, those are the ones i get (they are almost always number sequence questions). crap at most of the others though.

Trinity is quite tough.

I got the Greek letter anagrams so I'm basically retiring now.

Poor Manchester, that was a mauling.

was that 'your' Dave on mastermind just then, Ailsa?

wiping the floor with them

less chat lads now pls

(likeable bunch tho)

stewart is borderline maybe

That was Dave off of my Only Connect team on Mastermind, aye.

Getting all the plaudits despite scoring one less than I did on general knowledge at the same stage two years ago :-)

VCM doesn't get music questions. There's an entire generation of folk who will recognise Carlisle, Dublin and then mentally go "Dundee, Humberside". She did that whole "there's so much to get, that's brilliant, how do you do that" when I recognised the singing career of various EastEnders cast members last year. Whereas I'm all "why *wouldn't* I get that?".

Those missing vowel anagrams were an insane trick to pull at this stage of the competition.

Yeah I've seen way more esoteric clues on OC
and yeah missing vowels is usually *~my time to shine~* but I did poorly :(

I was screaming MEL GIBSON AND BIG MELONS, but other than that... sheesh.

To which my partner said,”Is that true, then? Does she have big...”

“Darling, Mel Gibson is a man.”

“Oh yeah.”

> Getting all the plaudits despite scoring one less than I did on general knowledge at the same stage two years ago :-)

ha ha. i literally saw just the MM score reveal at the start of my recording of OC and it probably looked more impressive because of the lower scores of the others.

didn't get the smiths question but did get 100:100 without knowing the exact reason why (but they were obviously converging). also: big melons.

(the % of % thing is also just square numbers. 98 squared is 9604...)

ha ha, was just reading the Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here thread and the post under the fold, from 2 months ago, was talking about the silk screen that was an answer on UC last night. and the phrase baader meinhof popped into my head. and that was also an answer.

you'll be seeing it everywhere now

lol, bobby seagull

also, there is a 0th law of robotics (so 4 in total) from one of the later books - "must not harm humanity" trumps "must not harm a human"

wow at the commodore 64 question

this week's lol, u r old question was the culture novels of iain m banks.

fuckin state of yerman in his dungarees, delighted they got a thumping tbh

Bet that lad didn't sleep that night

brutal

Such a shame for him. Saying that, Jones has been really good, and probably overshadowed by the comedy TV stylings of Brandon and Wang over the piece, so I'm glad her team are through.

And speaking of brutal: that second connecting wall, oof. Total game changer.

Today I discovered that both me and Mr kinder have the Eldorado theme tune seared into our brains despite never knowingly watching it

Lol I knew it was a soap theme, can't remember what I thought it was

Made up for by the time excitement of the Elder Scrolls music on UC afterwards

confession: I only watch OC now and not UC

I haven't watched either for ages, kinda got back into them the last month or so

shocking lack of sang froid from this lad on Mastermind

limmys nephew

really or just joshing?

soz

That's alright, it seemed possible, it's not like I got all excited. Anyway, shame on him