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

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

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um, that didn't work.

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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

You’re not the fucking captain, Brandon. But damn, you’re good. And I kinda dig the “not here to make friends” badge you always wear.

Not much of a match this week but hopefully the finals will be a good one. Two very good teams.

anyone watching the extremely hammy Quiz on itv? I want insider info about The Syndicate...

dont want brandon to win this because he seems like a dick

but otoh rotten cheating delay tactics from christi so gooooo inperial

anyone over oxbridge.

I sympathize id certainly be the same about trinners

Imperial way the better and more likeable team, Brandon's OK, he just wants it

Fuck you Corpus Christi and your new found sense of urgency

lolll otm

youre not stalling anymore

jaysus wang

its almost as if working on not jumping around the place might have made you a little quicker to the button, buck

lol boys now delaying like fuck, you love to see it

Totally outclassed

i have like gunasekera tho