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

Yes, Emil.y, that annoys me too. Not sure he's got worse in recent times though.

that was the toughest ep I've seen this series. For a lot of those questions I couldn't even guess.
A measly 14 for me. Anthology, barrow, noisome, fulsome, pirouette, The Way, William III, Joni Mitchell, Seville, centromere Edward VI, Offa's Dyke, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood.

Always get Corpse Bride muddled up with The Nightmare Before Christmas, grrr!

Yes, emil.y, I was saying the exact same thing last night.

Whereas you are sort of allowed to interrupt the music round music

The lady who got 3 on Goodness Gracious me was a beaten finalist on Only Connect the season I was on it. And Andrew, one of the shafted runners up, won Only Connect last year with his wife who was in last year's Mastermind final.

i'm just enjoying the yong people correctly identifying the Dicks and building the ensueing bridges with their forebears

So Paxman believes that Webby's surname is door bwa then.
I got told it was like Du Bois. Rhymes with young males luke. Always did like the idea of webby and his brother schubert scatting away.

Doo bwa.
'Kin autocorrect

Yes, that caused discussion here. My instinct has always been to pronounce it doo bwa, but I have definitely read that the man himself said it the other way.

“Overtones”

Love it when an answer is both (a) wrong and (b) non-existent

GREEN ELVES

Oh the Overtones do exist. They are very much not punk. He was really good though, that guy.

Who is Du Bois? Might have to re-watch.

Typical score of 22 for me this week. Lindisfarne Gospels, Durham, circuit breaker, allotropy, Sandwich*, biopsy, Gladstone, JB Priestley, bone marrow, CERN, Estonia, Elvis Costello, Madness, punctuation, King James Bible, Messier, Day of the Triffids, Little Shop of Horrors, George VI / Elizabeth II, William IV / Victoria, Ken Russell, Poland.

Pre-'Grimly Fiendish' Damned is a bit of a blind spot for me, unfortunately.

* Didn't know the name of the actual golf course, but JP let the contestant have Sandwich, so I'm having it!

Who is Du Bois? Might have to re-watch.

Typical score of 22 for me this week. Lindisfarne Gospels, Durham, circuit breaker, allotropy, Sandwich*, biopsy, Gladstone, JB Priestley, bone marrow, CERN, Estonia, Elvis Costello, Madness, punctuation, King James Bible, Messier, Day of the Triffids, Little Shop of Horrors, George VI / Elizabeth II, William IV / Victoria, Ken Russell, Poland.

Pre-'Grimly Fiendish' Damned is a bit of a blind spot for me, unfortunately.

* Didn't know the name of the actual golf course, but JP let the contestant have Sandwich, so I'm having it!

> biopsy

all those medical ones were quite easy, i thought. not that i can remember them now. oh, amnio centesis(sp), lumber puncture.

Is that the one they do with a bit of 4x2?

Willy Du Bois was a black intellectual of teh late 19th and early 20th century who i'm just reading about in Ibram X kendi's Stamped from the beginning. I find it amusing to call him webby doo bwa cos its so mature and stuff and posit that he has a brother called schubert who invented doo wop. But it may not be very respectful.
He wrote a number of great books including The Souls of Black Folks and books on the Reconstruction. He also wrote a sci fi short story called the Comet where New York is wiped out by the passage of a comet poisoning the atmosphere.

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Man, I was going to nail that alt history round I just know it

W.E.B. du Bois is the way it's always written so wonder if anybody else automatically reads initials as though they are acronymic.
I found a spider cartoon character named after him. Or is that a comic book one

I know I get told off for this, but I would definitely have buzzed for the max five points on "Cabaret + 'Maybe This Time'"

Got St Andrews, yes I did those things for raisin weekend though I don't remember what I had to carry. She didn't mention that you then go and throw flour and shaving foam at each other, or that booze is involved.

Didn't get the old course though.

I know I get told off for this, but I would definitely have buzzed for the max five points on "Cabaret + 'Maybe This Time'"

I got that too. And it's not that they were asked to create those songs, it's that you have to have at least one new song to qualify for the Oscar for Best Original Soundtrack.

That atomic number question is the worst thing I've ever seen on Only Connect And that includes seeing my own stupid face.

ha, yeah, was not impressed with that!

That question, or my stupid face?

xD

T D B
H U Q
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not the best week for me - 17 only.
karyatids, Titan, San, Timbuktu, UNICEF, Aaron Copland, Venus, methane, hallelujah, ululate, ungulate, Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, eyelid, ferns, Ursula le Guin, salt.

ululate isn't pronounced the way I've been reading it, it turns out.

i got gaugin as a blurted out guess (the picture of Rembrandt had to be easiest question of the day) and the other two sci fi authors (Rendezvous with Rama!)

I got that L/R one (after pausing it a teeny bit)!

Yeah, I got it on the last clue. The walls were the kind of shit they pull in the final. And annoyingly I spotted The Trip after two but had no idea whose footsteps they were traipsing around in series one.

I missed tonight because I was out, but just wondering - should I add Only Connect to the title of this thread? It seems to be the place to talk about it, might be worth doing to help searches?

I would like that, for sure.

The walls were the kind of shit they pull in the final.

We did pretty well on the walls, considering they were tkostpitf. I was especially pleased with myself for getting the word one on the second wall and then have VCM note that it was a particularly tricky word one.

emil.y - that would be good!
I got the STA ones straight off, which tipped me off to the second wall ones.

I spotted The Trip after two but had no idea whose footsteps they were traipsing around in series one.

Had Wordsworth, forgot Coleridge. Also it was pretty specifically the Lake District I thought.

UC was difficult.

I'll admit, I've parted ways with UC for the rest of the series. The questions get too boring for me at this point (ie the music ones are more opera/ classical) and I want to get on and watch Succession on Monday nights! I'll be back on board for the Christmas ones. maybe the final.

I think I got about four right last night, but yes, I start to tune out halfway through because it's just too hard for me.

> should I add Only Connect to the title of this thread?

yeah it's needed this for while. in fact this is now the de facto bbc quiz show thread, not limited to those two even. at least it's easy to search for because it's two exact words, no quote marks even.

Btw, if any of you fancy a crack at doing Only Connect, I do this Online Quiz League variant which is uniformly excellent, has really good hosts and writers. I understand the cost might be a bit off-putting, but it's less than a fiver per person per week even if you only have a three-person squad and it's dead good.

https://quizcentral.net/connections/coql/register

Here's a video featuring me (and Will Swygart, occasionally of this parish) against a team featuring Jenny Ryan off of the Chase and one of her teammates from actual OC champs The Gamblers. There are quite a few matches up on the YouTube channel for viewing, if you fancy some extra OC-type viewing without actually playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKE5QI3BPJ0

https://quizcentral.net/connections/coql/register

Cheers, Ailsa. will watch that later!

Got 20 this week - Kamala Harris, rhizome, Italian, Malay, E=mc^2, Messien, 1923, 1989, Svalbard, Adidas & Puma, tungsten, theodolite, Uganda, John Ford, dabbling, calcium and fluorine, PG Wodehouse, Oceania, B, National Maritime Museum.

made the exact same mistakes as Birmingham - Glass for Riley and goosander for merganser!

My Brummie bangers with another beatdown. They still haven't played a good team, I think.

Thanks, emil.y!

i'm the american guy who watches only connect so i will check out that connections quiz

ha, did a search for university challenge and glossed over the first result because it was too long

anyway, celeb uc is more my level. pleasant change from the latter rounds of the proper version. but i don't see why knowing what a Nintendo Gameboy looks like should be "shameful".

always funny randomly coming across people here commenting on Twitter about such things. don't really know why I'm surprised. at least it was about Benny hill and not like the time i saw ex-colleague bitching about my current employer.

the "fourteen" on OC was more bullshit btw

lol I totally got that one
therefore I think it is a good and clever clue

I watched Mastermind and wondered what te maximum score per round would be. Was thinking 28 combined was really good but maybe wasn't as high s it could be.
Do wonder to what extent the speed with which a presenter asks the questions affected the potential score.

But good that people have managed to get over their nerves to such an extent that they can remember correct answers in front of an audience both studio and beyond.

I think 36 asa combined round score was among the highest

I got 28 when I was on, fluffed 3 of the 13 specialist Subject ones and I think 2 of 20 general knowledge (maybe 3 of 30, have never watched it back) so max I could have got was 33 or 34, and I was answering as quickly as I could to try and make Humphrys ask them faster.