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

haigh and prance are sheer league of gentlemen

Both teams good in patches, both a bit nervy I think

Kraftwerk/ Aphex Twin / Burial / Massive Attack was good

The Sony movie channel was showing Marie Antoinette earlier in the evening and that also featured aphex twin ("July 14").

And that bbc4 Art Of The Image thing which was on later mentioned the female collage artist that was another answer, Hannah Hoch.

Is the competition done and they're just showing them now, or will it get shut down?

xp really enjoying the art of the image

University Challenge?

I'm pretty sure it was all filmed months ago, like Summer 2019.

Kraftwerk/ Aphex Twin / Burial / Massive Attack was good

― Neil S, Monday, 16 March 2020 22:24 (yesterday)

Lol at the girl all pumped for the electronic music round then not knowing her Aphexes from her Mobys.

the contestants give you hints before you've had time to think

We pause it as soon as it comes on the screen and give ourselves three minutes to see what we can do before they start.

You used to be able to play the wall yourself online which was good.

I guess the fact that I don't wanna go out of my way to interrupt the flow of just watching the show says I'm not that bothered. I have always thought that the show's poorly structured in terms of rounds/points tho, and crush on Victoria or not the whole arch style is just - not very good - tbh.

I don't know, I find OC pretty good in terms of flow, from my point of view. Taking Pointless as the low point of final rounds (I often skip the final round altogether, especially if they choose sports).

UC was filmed a while ago, yeah, you'll get the whole of this series. Though the next series of Only Connect was due to start recording this weekend, so suspect that may be canned.

Speaking of bobby seagull... He was on radio 4 talking about books, specifically Johnathon Livingstone Seagull, after which he is named. His dad read it and was impressed enough to give 2 of his 4 kids the surname Seagull (the mother wasn't too pleased, apparently, and the other two escaped with Seagull as a middle name)

Just got the South Park bit of the wall and gave a happy lol

ha

got the live aid connection after 2 - had (and have) the book with numerous photos in chronological order - still didn't get the last one.

OC questions I got right that the teams didn't: Sonny & Cher (I Got You Babe going backwards); spotted the South Park characters in the wall

I was surprised they missed the football scores question

Counting the vowels is such an obvious OC question but I missed that one

yeah i saw football teams and tuned out!

it's not an ip address ffs, it's got a 612 in it

Savage

be a good one this imo

wang almost comin out of the seat with each press

Bit earnest for my taste but no harm in em

same

he wants to stop giving tidbits about his answer in advance

the kind of trait youd beat out of any child imo

Paxo being far too lenient in letting teams waste time discussing answers.

I think thats been a notable change over the last two or three series tbh

Could be the editing, annoying tho.

mind you it is bad with this team in particular

Yeah if they weren't so honest-faced I'd almost suspect them of gamesmanship

Nah the cunt's running the clock, wants booking imo

im a huge believer in not interrogating intent tbh, off to the stocks

not good enough for me and where was pogba

Think there was a bug in the last Java question - the |= maybe should've been a != But I'd need another look.

arah it'll come out in uat sure

It was a !=

I've just checked and it was. But the font was wack and the background lines and the faint glow of the letters made it difficult to distinguish.

The first 3 were easy enough, didn't get the 4th

Well spotted, Koogs.

I sent a picture of one of those screens to a programmer friend who said the programming was bad and very uneconomical.

I strongly agree with the claim above that the winning team spent too much time chattering about things in a way that amounted to incredibly annoying showing off.

they've been doing it all series tbf

the pricks

https://www.flickr.com/gp/31962137@N00/U66E68

um, that didn't work.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49745009143_7b3d201f18_z.jpg

i like seeing their though processs, how they narrow things down.

narrowing down is fine if it is that

throwing in asides that are clearly not the straightest path to yr answer is a very unwinning habit

yeah it's some class swot nonsense, also why do some people manage to confer barely audibly and some...not?

just find them intrinsically not v likeable, unlike Durham and some of the other teams, so i'm probably overanalysing

durham captain is the fella youd save from a frothing covid ward alright

I strongly agree with both Darraghmac and N. Vague in this instance -- they (especially the really loud one in the middle) come across as obnoxious tossers, and it's hard to understand why they have to confer so loudly.

I don't remember the Durham captain.

Trinity applauding Brandon like he's Ronaldo at Old Trafford in 2003

hes good bit again a little performative

but seems thats just the trend idk