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

shit i always forget this is on

MCKenzie surely to be in the papers later in the week proclaiming "I fired up a spliff on the set of University Challenge".

Two captains both awful pricks in different ways.

yeah, they were both completely unbearable. The loud, self-satisfied conferring is a thing now as well. And Paxman totally indulges it

"Oh noooooh, I know it's Celine Dion"

"Oh noooooh, you are right"

in what universe is recognising one of Shania Twain's most famous songs up there with knowing pi in binary or whatever ffs

the university challenge universe. the same guy who got celine whispered to his captian "shania twain. and DON'T nominate me" which was kinda funny tbh

and yet they're never embarrassed when they miss the incredibly obvious pop questions the rest of the time

Thomas Mann an answer on both UC and OC. The team only knew the answer on one of the shows.

and they weren't ashamed of knowing Clay Aiken

I want McKenzie to be on every week.

both UC teams seemed really slow and quite rubbish this week, so many times me and my friend were left saying e.g. THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN while the teams were sitting dumbstruck.

Yeah, I was going "FORBIDDEN PLANET !!!" but hey.

Two captains both awful pricks in different ways.

― "Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Monday, October 21, 2013 3:30 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

came here to post this

I would have improved any team on both UC and OC this week. That's a bold claim I won't often make.

Thomas Mann an answer on both UC and OC. The team only knew the answer on one of the shows.

And on Pointless! (A repeat tho.) Obviously no-one knew it.

First time I've ever doubted supporting non-Oxbridge team against an Oxbridge one. The Durham captain's air of being no more than mildly diverted, as if he could have been down the pub instead, was intensely irritating.

The only thing he had going in his favour was the possibility that his demeanour was the result of a congenital defect.

The Oxford one seemed reluctant to give any answers he didn't know in case he got it wrong.

The only thing he had going in his favour was the possibility that his demeanour was the result of a congenital defect.

Was that also to blame for his habit of starting every answer with "Is it..."?

Durham captain vs Oxford captain was making me think of an Animal House style University Challeneg movie where a chain of unlikely coincidences lead to a gang of lovable underdog slack jawed stoners take on 80s James Spader style preppy kids in the final.

The Durham captain's air of being no more than mildly diverted, as if he could have been down the pub instead, was intensely irritating.

It didn't seem like it was some too cool for school affectation though, he genuinely seemed like someone who'd wandered into the studio by accident, and had never heard of University Challenge before.

Paxo last night sneered at a team offering up Omid Djalili as the actor playing Fagin in the music round "pfft, that'd be strange casting" or somesuch. Er, Omid Djalili *did* play Fagin.

tbf, he did say it'd be 'intersting'

Ah, I thought at the time, didn't he play Fagin?

it did sound like him too. and it was interesting casting. so everyone's right. and wrong.

I've actually seen Russ Abbott in the role and still thought it was Omid Djalili.

Yep, I yelled "Wait, but didn't he already..." at the TV too. I would've checked but am on a self-enforced "googling pointless info in front of the telly" ban.

Jamie Karran and his Pointless mate are on Only Connect right now. Total dobbers.

I liked how his factoid was "trended on Twitter". I bet it wasn't terribly complimentary.

Total dobbers

Learned a new word today.

That bit where he tried to explain about billy goats and cheese and stuff, aarrgghhhh, I was actively cringing, and that's without even going into the fact that you wouldn't get milk from a billy (male) goat in the first place. If you're going to talk wank on a TV show for smart people, you could at least talk factually plausible wank. Am I right in saying he still hasn't flushed yet and we've got to watch them *again*?

His lads took a hammering today but I'm sure he'll be popping up again somewhere.

I'm fairly sure Paxo just called the Murakami book 'IQ84' rather than 'one Q 84' in a question. Causing me to get the answer wrong!

he did but i got it anyway ;-)

thought Cambridge was a bit thick but i think to be more fair they just seemed to know nothing outside of their ambits of study

I got way fewer this week :( although I got 'potassium' when one of them stumbled.
I liked the recipe round! Also Paxo's astonishment at being able to identify a basic sponge cake recipe was a bit
http://media1.giphy.com/media/bRi1sMN9TYwAo/giphy.gif

yeah i know, if you've only had 1 home economics lesson in your life you probly recognise a sponge mix.

i started off hot and faltered a bit as it went on, kinda reverse Cambridge

got 8 right. much better than last week. i do tend to snooze off when there's a physics/maths Q though.

Normally I fast forward through the opera questions...

but this one was about football!

i still didn't get any right :(

That's two weeks in a row I've recognised the classical music buzzer question straight off. Evidently dumbing down because I know nothing bar stuff on adverts or football.

did they do every footballers favourite, the champions league theme song?

They didn't, no :-(

Do I get double points for answering correctly where nobody even buzzes to guess? (Toulouse Lautrec)

yass

"How do you spell 'facsimile'?" was some bullshit.

nail-biting stuff, although Christchurch deserve to lose for confusing 'one flew over...' with 'to kill a mockingbird'

Easiest tiebreak question ever. And aye, not knowing To Kill A Mockingbird brought Paxo levels of scorn in our house.

"How do you spell 'facsimile'?" was some bullshit.

― oppet, Monday, November 18, 2013 9:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I expected Bully to wander across the screen with a dictionary there.

(NonUK people: "Bullseye" was a dart-themed quiz show..)

NonUK people in the UK University Challenge thread

thank FUCK that little twerp and his "entertaining" conferring were eliminated. Got pretty hairy at the end

i hate the horror or mock horror when they have to look at some paintings or whatever