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

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.

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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

i have watched this 3 or 4 times this year not having watched it since i was a kid, i seem to remember getting around the same number of answers at the age of 13 that i do now

and how does that make you feel?

that i used to read books rather than wikipedia pages about football players

Paxman gives wrong answer on University Challenge

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that did scan as pretty odd but i guessed it was some bohemian german medieaval composer, dvorak answer seems strange too but i don't know enough about dvorak and i assumed it was some strange pseudo-archaic juvenilia

not the first time they've misattributed a classical music excerpt iirc

that was brutal

Argh, fucking Jamie Karran on Only Connect *again*

Lol I know. Is it weird that i'm finding them slightly endearing this time? The Qs were way hard this week

aye, I only got the connecting wall and the missing vowels, don't think I got anything in the first two rounds other than the lib dem leaders :-( Still not finding him and his pals endearing though. Also they thought Paul Simon was Bob Marley...

I got, like, 12 right or something, but that was cos they had rounds on Alan Moore and pop music.

oh i was talking about UC

Argh, fucking Jamie Karran on Only Connect *again*

he looks like an egg, onto which has been drawn boris johnson's face and robert smith's hair, but i don't dislike him. but he needs to stop wearing his futuristic mirrored shades around his neck like he was some nu-rave warrior.

His worrying lack of knowledge of things medical make me terrified of the fact that he's a doctor.

too busy quizzin' to learn obvs

Those gobshites again!

<plays "I can see for miles">

"Is it the Beatles?"

Another stupid spelling challenge in 'succinct'. And that lot stormed their way to the only connect final.

There is an interesting inventory of songs used by NASA to wake up astronauts here:

http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf