yeah great stuff.
wrong thread but i don't think victoria coren is coping with the only connect transition to bbc2.
― oppet, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Am I the only one here that still expects to hear the words "Bamber Gascoigne" when the announcer says "Asking the questions....."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 06:36 (nine years ago) link
Something about this seems a bit off for some reason: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/15/gutted-university-challenge-paxman-diversity
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 08:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 08:32 (nine years ago) link
We're old, Mark... old and in the way *weeps bitterly*
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
http://basementrug.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/old-and-in-the-way.jpg
I'm still not used to the 'new'version of the theme tune
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
We watched the movie "Starter for Ten" the other day. The girls laughed uproariously at the original music and the funny looking question-master...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
How do people not recognise Warm Leatherette when it's played to them?
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
they just want to see paxman doing his ~popular culture~ routine.
― oppet, Monday, 22 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
Haha, the Bill & Ted question on OC.
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Tonight's hopeless team leader yelling "whore" at Paxman has to be a series highlight.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 September 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Both teams were shit last night
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:38 (nine years ago) link
xpost yes, I did ponder if that was half-an-answer that he realised was wrong, or just a posh way of yelling "fuck"
Another highlight was eight students looking totally lost while The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" played.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:43 (nine years ago) link
A few sniggers from the audience too. You think they might have guessed at least, I don't know, Burroughs or something, assuming they'd heard of him.
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
Is Warm Leatherette particularly well known by people outside of muso/80s alternative circles? I doubt many of my friends would recognise it.
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:52 (nine years ago) link
Pretty sure it's not that well known, but they didn't have to know the track just what writer they thought had inspired it.
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link
ah I see - I didn't see yesterday's episode.
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:59 (nine years ago) link
Then again, both my wife and Alice got the last question in the music round where I didn't.
The band was called "How great it is to go to hospital" or something like that.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:59 (nine years ago) link
the question was about frost, so I think he was shouting "hoar" rather than "whore". correct answer was "rime".
― mahb, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:02 (nine years ago) link
"Delacroix" is the new "Euler" as common answer
― kinder, Monday, 29 September 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I quite often get random points just by saying Delacroix. Also Brueghel, so this tactic paid off twice tonight.
Clean sweep on the walls AND the missing vowels on Only Connect for me tonight. Also spotted a few of the first couple of rounds as well.
― ailsa, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Cezanne is a good stock answer too, I find.
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 09:06 (nine years ago) link
Felt smug at OC team's inability to recognise Little Mix
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 09:34 (nine years ago) link
this is painful
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
jaysus who let the Chessmen back in?
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
never mind :D
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 6 October 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
What if they'd answered 'funk'??
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 13 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
well, I got the venerable beade!
― bets wishes (jel --), Monday, 13 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
i figure they'd've accepted funk or punk. not sure about crunk.
― Chimp Arsons, Monday, 13 October 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
I got venerable bede too and it was a total fluke guess.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 13 October 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
speaking of which, anyone watching the Detectorists on BBC4?
― kinder, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 07:22 (nine years ago) link
saw the first one. second one is waiting for me at home.
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I've been enjoying it. Low key but satisfying.
― sweet lids of the stars (seandalai), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Okay, I'm definitely cheering for Magdalen after Quinn's Morrissey hair swipe.
― jmm, Sunday, 26 October 2014 03:40 (nine years ago) link
answer the fucking questions ffs
paxman getting fucking soft
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 27 October 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
GAHHHH ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 27 October 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure Bamber wouldn't let them take as long.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Ugh, too much sass in these Christmas episodes.
― jmm, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Noreena Hertz = be still my fluttering heart
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
saw her speak at a conference earlier this year, she was an appallingly bad public speaker
― you've got no fans you've got no ground (anagram), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
"Van hoof" gtfo. (Last week.)
― ledge, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:55 (nine years ago) link
Bit late but Adam Mars-Jones is *very* well-kept for 60
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:57 (nine years ago) link
Northern Soul questions were tough for two teams in their early 20s. Two nice teams but not good enough to avoid being ground under the wheels of some Oxbridge juggernaut.
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
Northern Soul questions were tough for two teams in their early 20s.
yeah i thought that was a little harsh.loved how they just gave the same answer each time ..
― mark e, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:16 (nine years ago) link
xp Manchester are looking strong again this year too...
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
I might have mentioned this before, but the guy in charge of the Manchester team selection process (who is competing in this year's Only Connect, the guy who won the tiebreak last week) has (had?) a father who is similarly geeky about quizzing. Said father was my chemistry teacher, and once made several kids at my school complete a quiz, and he put the winners (including me) into a team for School Challenge (school version of UC). We won the regional final for Scotland and were only beaten in the UK finals by the eventual winners. The Pearson family clearly good at quiz team selection.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:21 (nine years ago) link
he's a librarian I think? As a fellow librarian I approve!
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, we thought that. I got them all but the first, obv Dusty: I was massively overthinking there.
I did ponder Ruth Swann for the last, but went Gloria, hray.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Gloria was the only one I got!
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
i only got the dusty one !
― mark e, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link