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*?
― ailsa, Monday, 4 November 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
His lads took a hammering today but I'm sure he'll be popping up again somewhere.
― oppet, Monday, 4 November 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
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!
― kinder, Monday, 11 November 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
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
― . (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
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
― kinder, Monday, 11 November 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
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
― . (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
got 8 right. much better than last week. i do tend to snooze off when there's a physics/maths Q though.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Normally I fast forward through the opera questions...
but this one was about football!
i still didn't get any right :(
― Number None, Monday, 11 November 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Monday, 11 November 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
did they do every footballers favourite, the champions league theme song?
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
They didn't, no :-(
― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
Do I get double points for answering correctly where nobody even buzzes to guess? (Toulouse Lautrec)
― Mark G, Monday, 18 November 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
yass
― cozen, Monday, 18 November 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
"How do you spell 'facsimile'?" was some bullshit.
― oppet, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
nail-biting stuff, although Christchurch deserve to lose for confusing 'one flew over...' with 'to kill a mockingbird'
― kinder, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Easiest tiebreak question ever. And aye, not knowing To Kill A Mockingbird brought Paxo levels of scorn in our house.
― ailsa, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
"How do you spell 'facsimile'?" was some bullshit.― oppet, Monday, November 18, 2013 9:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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..)
― Mark G, Monday, 18 November 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
NonUK people in the UK University Challenge thread
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 18 November 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
thank FUCK that little twerp and his "entertaining" conferring were eliminated. Got pretty hairy at the end
― Number None, Monday, 18 November 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
i hate the horror or mock horror when they have to look at some paintings or whatever
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 18 November 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 18 November 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
and how does that make you feel?
― Number None, Monday, 18 November 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
that i used to read books rather than wikipedia pages about football players
― just got dope thai food (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
Paxman gives wrong answer on University Challenge
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
fifth most read story on the bbc
― iateeogenic illness (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― iateeogenic illness (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
not the first time they've misattributed a classical music excerpt iirc
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
that was brutal
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Monday, 25 November 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
Argh, fucking Jamie Karran on Only Connect *again*
― ailsa, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Lol I know. Is it weird that i'm finding them slightly endearing this time? The Qs were way hard this week
― kinder, Thursday, 28 November 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
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...
― ailsa, Thursday, 28 November 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
I got, like, 12 right or something, but that was cos they had rounds on Alan Moore and pop music.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Thursday, 28 November 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
oh i was talking about UC
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Thursday, 28 November 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 28 November 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
His worrying lack of knowledge of things medical make me terrified of the fact that he's a doctor.
― ailsa, Thursday, 28 November 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
too busy quizzin' to learn obvs
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 28 November 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Those gobshites again!
― kinder, Monday, 9 December 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
<plays "I can see for miles">
"Is it the Beatles?"
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 9 December 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
Another stupid spelling challenge in 'succinct'. And that lot stormed their way to the only connect final.
― oppet, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
There is an interesting inventory of songs used by NASA to wake up astronauts here:
http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf
― Mental Strong People: The 13 Things They Avoid (soref), Monday, 9 December 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo)
TBF I'm equally clueless when it's anything but pop.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 9 December 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
Funny, the default (noted upthread, or was it in http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=25210 ?) is usually The Who.
― Mark G, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
tsk
McGrath out to prove
― lorde othering (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Steve 'Fighting Fantasy' Jackson on the Christmas special right now.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 23 December 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
...and he's never seen Bad Santa.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 23 December 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
And they're all hopeless at basic maths. Enjoyed Llwyd's no nonsense way with the buzzer though.
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Monday, 23 December 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Given how piss-poor everyone was in the final of Only Connect, if I wasn't so morbidly terrified of people mocking me the way I mock Jamie Karran (seriously, how the holy fuck is this guy a practising doctor - I don't think he's even stumbled within a mile of any answer requiring medical or scientific knowledge), I'd be well up for getting a team together and going for it.
Imagine NONE of them having heard of the Avengers!
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
Is it just me or was he final a bit easy this year? We got both walls completely and nearly all the connections before the one point mark.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Aye, us too. Was definitely easier.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 12:23 (ten years ago) link