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

They are all appalling, and all incredibly bad at basic maths, even the science dudes.

Jamie Karran can't even do ebay listings without making me want to hurt him:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trophy-from-BBC-game-show-Pointless-/301051014773?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_TV_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item461809ee75

> Who knows, you could be buying the trophy of a future Chaser or Egghead!

saw both over christmas. such smug gits.

what an obnoxious tosser, he shd have it revoked

what the fuck are those stupid nu rave specs he always wears around his neck???

if we had a resident advisor system in the UK i could see him never leaving university

<3 the round in which one answer was Doug Yule. Nobody got it right, obvs.

"It's Geneva and vengeance."

"Cosine." "Cosine."

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, DUSTY FUCKING SPRINGFIELD

Lots of good stuff today.

yeah, Robert Nozick and Four Quartets made me happy

Man we got more than the Reading team by ourselves!

Strangely, I was being told about George Michael's 'Being Boring' pick on Desert Island Discs only three days ago and then it comes up on UC.

that's the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. You'll be hearing about it again shortly

(i am getting this with Four Horsemen by Aphrodite's Child. i've heard it about 6 times in the last 2 months in various places)

lolled so much at Paxo calling that guy a smart arse. Also FINALLY the Champions League music gets an airing in the music round.

it's been in it loads!

oh wait

FUCK YOU SOAS DUDE

Haha!

he's the engine in that team but clearly Football is not his subject.

chuffed I got that Welsh one at the end

half got it, guessed "West"

Phil jupitus' hanging mouth is killing me

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I saw this lad in the pub last night. Accidentally spent an age staring into his abyss of a gob before I realised where I knew him from.

jaysus what is this Revenge of the Egghead shite?

The FUCK was that music round?!

That was some fucking load of arse, wasn't it?

Though finally my degree became useful as I answered the question about Daniel Dennett! Eight of the country's supposed finest brains not knowing what a dimension is was some new sort of low, I felt.

"Ocular sphincter"

The quiddity question could have been a little clearer.

"firestarter" by jamiroquai

(Only Connect)

Watching this University Challenge team selection documentary and 2 OC alumni spotted - Emma Laskett (? The transgender one from a family team) and the team captain of Record Collectors from this year (the blind girl).

rachel (the blind girl, runs cherryade records, does a show on dandelion radio) was on 15-1 when i was home sick earlier in the year. has been on mastermind doing belle and sebastian too iirc.

She's been on Mastermind twice, the other time she did the Festive 50.

That guy who did all the team selections for Manchester that was on about being the Alex Ferguson of University Challenge, his dad was my maths teacher and did exactly the same selection process for selecting our school team for Schools Challenge, which was a school version of UC, funnily enough. I was the captain of that, and we were the Scottish champions.

(also have been up again Rachael in two music quizzes at festivals and my team beat her team both times)

I beat her at least once but I think her team might have been the ones that stole our quiz crowns last year? Unless it was YOU.

No, I think you were second, we were third and I can't remember who won but it wasn't Rachael's team anyway because I was talking to them at some point.

Thanks to today's music round (bonus points if you predict the questions based purely on the subject, AS I DID) I've only just realised that it's Oxygene that's the music off of Limmy's Adventure Quest

I did say Gold and Lithium would be featured, so ten bonus points for me.

these aren't rly human ppl as I know humans

yeah that was the most useless music round i've seen yet.

Nearly switched off in disgust at that.

I punched a hole in my TV.

maybe they only like good music

Go Glasgow! Woohoo!

(also, I got 17 questions right.... yes yes there were two pop music rounds, but still)

easiest music rounds ever?

Bath an abject lesson in spreading yr subject specialists round a bit, tho they improved tbf

quality match that

yeah great stuff.

wrong thread but i don't think victoria coren is coping with the only connect transition to bbc2.

Am I the only one here that still expects to hear the words "Bamber Gascoigne" when the announcer says "Asking the questions....."

Something about this seems a bit off for some reason: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/15/gutted-university-challenge-paxman-diversity

got the impression from that documentary a couple of weeks ago that they did consider diversity. if i were running the show my first fix would be fuck the collegiate system, oxbridge get one team each.