i'm four weeks behind. and one of the answers in ucl vs sheffield ("His House") was on tv in the meantime!
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 09:05 (one year ago) link
"i know all the songs but i can't make a connection..."
Yeah, that was odd. I only got the connection because they got the first song. I was very pleased with myself for getting the Spongebob Squarepants. I'm so cultured!
(they won the jackpot by naming some Peter Cushing films)
Very last-day-of-school energy from these episodes of Pointless.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
> "i know all the songs but i can't make a connection..."
for the sake of future me wondering what this was about all the songs had Mind in the titles, the most obvious connection possible and yet...
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
is "greek fire" the first thing that comes to your mind? i had to look up what it was.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I never heard of it. We went with St Elmo's.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
it's pretty famous if you've any interest in classical history tbf
― Burnt Norton 360 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
catching up on old episodes and this one team didn't know who wrote Martian Chronicles...
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Hmm, we have no House of Games recorded today, and the episode doesn't seem to be scheduled for later in the week. Was it on and our Sky box just didn't catch it?
― trishyb, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
my listings mag says yes, usual time, bbc2
― koogs, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
(actually work slack is full of people asking if various things got to sky, seems like there are occasional problems)
― koogs, Friday, 18 November 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
So weird, because the recording isn't marked as failed or anything. Oh well.
― trishyb, Friday, 18 November 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
28, being slightly generous. the episodes with courthauld in do have more cultural and fewer hardcore science questions. likeable teams although if the cambridge captain had listened to her teammates more (and one of them hadn't accidentally leaned on the buzzer) they might just have squeaked it.
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
the ex-ilxor had a good Only Connect last night
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
Last night's UC teams had only one scientist between them, so I was expecting low scores all round - but by some extraordinary coincidence there were very few science questions. Hmmm.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
They do tailor the bonus questions somewhat to the teams' subjects - of course if you get a starter you might bonuses designed for the other team.
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but then you get to "waste" the points they would have gotten.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
My gf's sister was on this tonight!!
― imago, Monday, 28 November 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
UC or OC?that ABCD one was one of the easiest one they've ever had, surely?
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
Got 27 this weekLowell, Mars, cantaloupe, pumpkin, pitch, Shanghai & Beijing, William Shatner, Eric B & Rakim, Cornershop, moon, fermium, goldcrest, finch, ash, Andrew Motion, St. Sebastian, IBM, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Mel Brooks, Xanadu, roe, ore, spit, Titicaca.
Watching the Robert Gordon contestant arguing in favour of Norman Cook was painful.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
UC!
I'm currently sitting in a pub with one of the perpetrators of that Norman Cook foul-up. They consider themselves told
― imago, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
(although they were arguing for Cornershop!)
― imago, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
Blimey, it's a small world a bit.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 07:24 (one year ago) link
I knew I shouldn't have Twitter-searched 'university challenge' ffs
― imago, Thursday, 1 December 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
Yes, never Twitter search any of the Monday night quiz shows unless you want evidence to discredit the idea that they are TV for smart people.
― ailsa, Friday, 2 December 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
Especially if your irl fam is on the wrong end of the bullshit
― imago, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
Or your actual own self. Just saying.
― ailsa, Monday, 5 December 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
it's holiday season. so UC is on Mon-Fri and there's a festive OC on Friday
― koogs, Monday, 19 December 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
3 more OC specials next week, themed episodes on Boxing Day & Tuesday and Champion of Champions on Wednesday.
― braised cod, Monday, 19 December 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
jfc I can scarcely manage one uc & one oc per week.
― ledge, Monday, 19 December 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
ffs listen to the questions soas
― ledge, Monday, 19 December 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
I would be very annoyed if I were the other two people on the losing OC team last night. Their captain did not listen to them, and gave wrong answers to a couple of questions as a result. Maybe her earpiece wasn't working correctly?
― trishyb, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
Did Paxo hint that the graduate festive UCs had somewhat less demanding questions than the regular ones? For if so that wasn't reflected in my scores.
Univ/Glasgow last night got a reminder of the rules whereas SOAS/Balliol on Monday didn't. Possibly as a result of JP realising his assumption that the contestants would be familiar with them was an incorrect one.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
What would the fourth be?
(hem hem)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
UC, all those people graduating in 20xx disgust me
Brookmyre was on last night. was he ailsa's backup specialist subjecy when she was on mastermind
the four OC specials appear to be
1 (23rd) Christmas2 (26th) Mystery3 (27th) Love4 (28th) Champion of Champions
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 12:33 (one year ago) link
re hardness: watching last night's UC now and i think the follow-up questions at least are tailored to the guests (although often they go to the wrong team)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
But isn't it the same on regular UC? Don't they sometimes tailor the bonus questions to people's specialities (or is it specialisms? I can never tell anymore)?
― trishyb, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
I think the Christmas starter questions feel easier, because the answer is often something festive.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah, there was a bunch of (classical) music questions, fairly obscure. Paul Gambaccini had nothing to say: it wasn't his team.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Christmas questions are definitely easier than 'normal' ones in my view! The later in the series, the harder they are too (normal ones). I've had to quit in recent series because it just got boring not knowing anything.
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Had no idea! Weirdly I've just read/ re-read a whole ton of Brookmyre books in the past few months.
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
(i could be wrong! but istr it was a scottish author i hadn't read anything by)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
Yes, hello, I did the Jack Parlabane books as a specialist subject a few years ago.
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 December 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
(Jack Parlabane is a character in a series by Christopher Brookmyre, if that isn't clear)
― ailsa, Friday, 23 December 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Captains rushing in to answer without listening to the actual correct answers coming from their teammates is a bit of a theme on the quizzes at the moment.
― trishyb, Friday, 23 December 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
Grinds my gears something fierce
― partez Maroc anthem (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 December 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
Not as much as being told "no no no, it's not that.... We don't know!" by our quiz captain. Not TV, just our local pub quiz league, still though..."
― Mark G, Saturday, 24 December 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
(ignore that last quote mark)
paxman in a christmas jumper is just wrong
― koogs, Friday, 30 December 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
So, was that the last ever Paxo?
― ailsa, Friday, 30 December 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
it's back to the normal series next week, i guess the end of that will be the last
― koogs, Saturday, 31 December 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link