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

Re the music rounds on UC, lots of classicz on I know the Music round is my chance to score points on University Challenge, but for gods sake!!!

my fav:

Recently, they had a round where they played brief snips of the intro for all the tracks off an album. Kinda easy, and the team got them all except for:

"tinklytinkly/BAMBAMBAMBAM/skirrrrskirrrr"

Stude: "Um, The Velvet Underground?"
Paxo: "No, that's the third album, this was the Velvet Underground and Nico.."

― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:11 (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also Carmody is on that thread

I'm getting on average 8-12 questions right per episode this series. That seems unusually high??

that's what i was thinking last night, yeah

It means you're getting older, boys

man i was on fire last night

I've been too hungover on Mondays recently to really make a go of this.

8-12 is an okay score but it's not "unusually high", whatever that means.

It's higher than I used to get only a year or two ago. And I've not been reading up on anything.

Pro tip: I watch UC on catch up, because yeah - Mondays are a bit heavy for me.

1st round questions on UC are easier anyway iirc. last night was mostly a doddle.

This is true - by the semis it is noticeably more difficult.

As I say, I was too hungover to concentrate properly, but the 'name the dinosaur' round was too easy to pass up.

Team not getting the velociraptor right was 0_0

... and I was a 10 year old a lot longer ago than any of them!

They tried to be too clever by half saying Compsognathus. It was obviously a raptor!

ya, that was more 'the obvious dick is obviously a dick' tbf

I liked goth guy, glad goth is still a thing.

Goth Doctor!

I thought that team had kind of an annoying style of conferring

was he a goth? i thought it was some sort of Brian May wannabe toolishness.

I assumed it was a Fat Bob-esque hairstyle, with a weird goth-y cyber punk necklace thing too.

he was a wanker, even had he dressed as marilyn he'd have been a dick who ignored the right answers offered by his team in order to give a showy wrong one.

There was a dude on the other team who didn't actually say a word all night, not even to his team. I liked him.

Paxo said the captain was chosen by "who had the best hair", so something weird was going on.

xp Dinosaur round was hilarious. I would have nailed that aged eight.

there were no velociraptors when i was eight, they were retconned in the 80s

Ha, that's true - a Jurassic Park round.

Indeed, I'd never heard of them till the 80s

xp Dinosaur round was hilarious. I would have nailed that aged eight.

― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:37 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

I would have too, but didn't last night :-/ Knowledge lost...

I knew all the film year questions though.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Vraptor-scale.png

\o

Let's get real here, that's just a duck with a cricket bat up its arse

I like the "o hai" man. He should be used to measure all dinosaurs.

xp how the dodos became extinct?

They had feathers you know

Destroyed my childhood when i found that out

Looks like a knobbly Fred West, the man

ALL DINOSAURS HAD FEATHERS and so did trilobites

http://www.yousaytoo.com/gallery_image/pics/3/65/79/690703/original/remote_image_8562_0.jpg

Who's a pretty boy then?

^ just realised what a weird thing that is to say to a parrot, budgie, cockatoo, w/e

Parrots are the least attractive of all avians.

you don't say it to a parrot a parrot says it to you!

You have to say it to the parrot first tho

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110727-coslog-xiaotingia-9a.photoblog600.jpg

Silly

I knew someone who had a parrot who used to squawk "Say Hello", because everyone used to go up to it and shout "Say Hello!"

was watching some old QI the other night and they reckoned that parrots have never been observed imitating sounds or movements in the wild, its only a behaviour in captive birds. Sinister.

remember some prog with footage of some birds in the wild doing the sound of trees falling down and stuff and then after they'd been filming them for a while they would do the camera autofocus sound too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

aye that's right

scored 115 points
or 17 answers

though I can't tell you what the scientific alphabet equivalent of the words asparagus or bananas are.