Courtauld are the most likeable team altho I wish Juliet and Manchester well, tonight at least
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
Tuesday's, Reading vs New College Oxford, was the most fucking embarrassing all round display of zero general knowledge and inability to even listen to the question.
Agreed, although Loughborough versus UCLAN wasn't exactly stellar television either. Like the comedy shows, I can only assume they're having difficulty getting people to agree to risk putting themselves through it this year.
― trishyb, Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
Nah the alumni are surprisingly ignorant every year
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
Christmas UC questions seem a bit harder this year (or perhaps I am a bit slower). I seem to remember more questions like “What is the name of the Christmas ballet by Tchaikovsky called the Ntcracker?” in the past
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
God I'm embarrassed on behalf of Loughborough
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Feel for Fix, at least she's trying.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Fox dang autocorrect
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
Gotta hand it to Monty, you wait all episode for him to buzz in, but when he does he's wrong
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
catching up on OC now. is she going to wear that hat all show?
― koogs, Thursday, 31 December 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
ah...
― koogs, Thursday, 31 December 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
> God I'm embarrassed on behalf of Loughborough
Watching this now and neither team are doing well but the monomania of the sports stars is showing, Fox seems to be the only one that has any general knowledge.
Having two cricketers on the team all well and good, but if you don't get the questions...
Paul Sinha has been the answer twice tonight.
― koogs, Friday, 1 January 2021 10:47 (three years ago) link
Monty's contribution over the two shows was -5 points.
― koogs, Friday, 1 January 2021 10:56 (three years ago) link
And he wants to be a broadcaster! Not only did he not answer any questions correctly, he barely opened his mouth. At least the other two were trying to join in, even if they didn't know anything.
― trishyb, Friday, 1 January 2021 11:05 (three years ago) link
This lad on OC is gloriously rubbish
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
Even if I didn't already know they were tossers
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
That bit of conferring that ended in "marine environments" was truly painful
― Number None, Monday, 18 January 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
Poor Big O mistaken for Tammy Wynette.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 18 January 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
Durham captain Parkinson did very well last night.
One of my better personal performances too -- scored 13 (canard, Minister of Education, Newtons / m², Green Bay Packers, jackdaw, rook, raven*, Elgar, TT Race, Turin, Willy Brandt, Clyde Tombaugh, HP Lovecraft).
* always like it when ornithology comes up.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link
was she the one that fumbled Jarrow March?
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
I felt so bad for her, because she was afraid of every answer she took from the team after that.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link
i don't undertand why they don't nominate more
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
I'd like to know how she worked out the half life, none of the online calculators i can find have the size of decay product as a factor.
― ledge, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
oh i guess it's that if there's 7 times more y than x after t, then there's one eighth of x remaining - so half life = t/3 (1/8 life = t, 1/4 life = t/2, 1/2 life = t/3). only took me about half an hour compared to her 2 seconds!
― ledge, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
What is nominating for?
Have i asked this already?
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
2^3 is 8 is how i figured it. if it's an eighth of what it was after a day, that's 3 half lives
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
nominating just means the person who knows the answer speaks rather than telling the captain (with the potential information loss that can cause).
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
Ok, but do the answers otherwise have to come through the captain? Hadnt noticed any pattern there i must say
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
starter questions (no conferring) are answered by whoever buzzes, but the 3 follow-up questions are normally answered via the captain.
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
2^3 is 8 is how i figured it. if it's an eighth of what it was after a day, that's 3 half livesyeah it was the 7 that threw me.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 08:12 (three years ago) link
Apart from being incredibly badly designed as an audience participation show I can't watch Mastermind cos I hate watching all these saddoes looking sad when they realise they're rubbish
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 February 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
And yet esterhase's interrogation is a masterwork youd watch again and again
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Monday, 1 February 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
I can't watch pointless (or many other shows) because of the constant wrestling with a question i cannot answer: why people who clearly don't know anything would apply to go on a quiz show.
― ledge, Monday, 1 February 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
Some Mastermind contestants always seem to look particularly broken, lol ffs
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
why people who clearly don't know anything would apply to go on a quiz show.
You get to be on telly! You can meet Richard and Xander! Some people are into that.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
i am reminded of half man, half biscuit.
tuned it of UC last night, was trying to make pixels jump.
got the ar- set on the OC wall though (cade kind of gave that away) and a three pointer they didn't see in the first round.
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link
People do apply for quiz shows as a nice day out, be on telly, meet Ben or Bradley or whoever.
And why not?
The downside is you get people going up to you in the street saying "I knew that Myanmar answer" for six months afterwards, plus repeats.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
I auditioned for a quiz quite a few years ago, there was a 'runthrough' in an office with a couple of researchers and four potential contestants, and I got bumped because I was doing too well.
Then again, the prog was a disaster and got cancelled after three episodes.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 07:57 (three years ago) link
surely no one wants to meet John Humphrys
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 08:37 (three years ago) link
is UC more complicated this year? Teams having to come back twice and win etc. If so is this a Covid-related change?
Those country border triple points were hard! Only managed one (Bulgaria/Romania/Serbia).
Generally last night's was good for me. Scored 22 - the above plus Dalmatia, Venice, English Channel, Boston, in silico, Golgi, or & argent, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, WZ, Ionian, fennec fox, Monkey, Tang Dynasty, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monet, myelin sheath, The Tin Drum, Tipperary, Tromsø, Bergen.
Not surprising no modern day students have seen the Japanese TV show "Monkey" but still amusing seeing Rout fromm Warwick work the Journet to the West q. out "The main character's a monkey, so..."
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 10:25 (three years ago) link
I managed to get two out of three countries for all four of those questions :-/
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 10:34 (three years ago) link
There are about a million refilmings of Journey to the West since the Japanese TV show tbf
Also I don't enjoy watching Rout or Warwick do anything
Quarter final rules have been like this for years now = more eps per season
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 11:11 (three years ago) link
I have also been on a TV quiz, and have been a guest of someone else who was on a TV quiz, and it is fun and exciting. I suppose it kind of has to be: you're not getting paid, so they better at least give you some nice sandwiches and a mug and take some souvenir photos and be nice to you.
I had a good OC but a terrible UC last night. I tend to phase out early when they start with the maths and physics questions, and then I can't get back into it.
It's unfortunate for Rout that his "shake it off and move on" gestures look so like "who gives a shit about this trivial subject" gestures.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 11:43 (three years ago) link
> in silico
the question gave two 'in...' examples and yet the first answer was something entirely unconnected (and wrong)
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 12:15 (three years ago) link
You don't really get to. He doesn't sully himself with contestant interaction. Other hosts I've met nor heard tale of will have a bit of icebreakery chat before and after and between rounds and stuff. Not him.
TV quiz auditions are weird. I've given up on them.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
I did an online audition for Mastermind a couple years ago, and got through one round but not the second.
I also had a few conversations with a researcher about specialist subject ideas. Oddly enough my chosen subject - Penelope Fitzgerald novels - ended up being another contestant’s specialist subject that year. World’s least essential conspiracy.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Most of mine got laughed at, all but one of them have been done since.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
Yeah, times have changed...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
There's a new production team, but same old Humphrys and his interference with question process, so I won't be going back any time soon.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
The quiz shows wot I have done, all the hosts were reasonably friendly and chatty afterwards (beyond the perfunctory, anyway).
The 'audition' I related above, the host wasn't involved obviously. I wasn't bothered about meeting RKS, to say the least.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
That new one with Zoe Lyons is a bit odd. I like the questions, but I'm not sure about the whole lightning conceit, and I wish ZL would relax a little and be more like herself.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link