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

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.

that round was easy but unfair to the other team. took far too long stitching together the answers for 9 and 10 letter veg . if I was on the other team I'd be raging

Is this the thread where we say well done/commiserations to NV?

Come And Have A Go

That fruit/elements round was fucking infuriating. Genuinely never seen anyone get that long to confer before. Paxman chuckling away

^^^ terrible question

'awright'

Shut your face and get off the show, son, you don't say 'awright' to paxman

don't watch this but there's not a lot to choose between some 'student oik' and prissy fuckhead paxman

cute posh dr is killing it imo

oi mates some big brained bird is etc etc

that was a massacre, ffs, paxman should have stopped it in the fifth

i got so many right tonight, i should have kept count. perhaps my greatest performance.

Just catching up on this week's episode and I really want those smug fucks from UCL to be eliminated. Their endless, chortling conferring sessions are really, really annoying. They're getting one more chance thanks to whatever the hell the qualifying system is now though.

Hear hear

"GVIME"!

Seriously pissed off that I didn't get that one in time.

Also, Paxo gave Manchester way too many benefits of the doubt.

he has his favourites

On Challenge +1 you have just missed Zaphod Beeblebrox guy giving 'jizz' as an answer on a repeat of Pointless.

just caught the last seconds of that episode yesterday. I hate him so.

he's just this guy, y'know?

I've noticed they seem to have totally done away with the popular music questions on UC which is quite vexing. Hasn't been one in ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxA0a5G6ccg

Jamie Karran @cee_eph

i can't believe i saluted at the end of that #universitychallenge i can see why people think i am a huge twat :P

^ Zaphod Beeblebrox dude on twitter. He seems quite alright, actually.

Manchester's captain is actively ruining the show for me now

wasn't paying attention tbh

It's the same deal as UCL. They have these jokey conferring sessions that last forever (which get worse the further ahead they get) and Paxman totally indulges them.