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

GAHHHH ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION

I'm sure Bamber wouldn't let them take as long.

Ugh, too much sass in these Christmas episodes.

Noreena Hertz = be still my fluttering heart

saw her speak at a conference earlier this year, she was an appallingly bad public speaker

"Van hoof" gtfo. (Last week.)

Bit late but Adam Mars-Jones is *very* well-kept for 60

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.

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 ..

xp Manchester are looking strong again this year too...

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.

he's a librarian I think? As a fellow librarian I approve!

Northern Soul questions were tough for two teams in their early 20s.

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.

Gloria was the only one I got!

i only got the dusty one !

loveday taking the fuckin piss

about two thirds of the way through that the Liam neeson history lad was halfway pissed at his own teammate tearing it up like that

He was a miserable so and so, wasn't he, the boy from Ballymena? Bit of a disappointing non contest unfortunately. Gonville & Caius vs. Magdalen though, lol UK 2015.

he came across that way maybe but I mean, ballymena, who can tell

Loveday was amazing. Twelve starters in total, apparently.

"Pictures at an Exhibition" was a booming interruption tbf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3b5sFaNEOU

whole music round on Pazz & Jop this week

I got all of them. :(

Sphincter preservation and the lapdog in the 18th century - and the questions haven't even started yet.

I would like to note that I'm on a roll recently for getting first questions correct and before they do.
Is this week the first week in a while there's not been a Morrissey reference?

my run is broken
Didn't they have a similar question on 'c.f.' last week or did I imagine that?

Was that not on Only Connect?

cf. - it wasn't on UC that I recall

poor old normal bristol trounced by 19-year-old aliens

ailsa, that's probably it.

Loveday worked in our office as an intern a few years ago, nice kid, terrifyingly intelligent though.

shut up u bowtied cunt

nutella's hazelnut you twat

NO MERCY

It was, a bit.

Factory Records question!

4AD question!

and a Syco Records one at that!

And a DefJam one too! Students these days, eh?

they got Syco, failed on Def Jam and 4AD

very poor

"Um, Beastie Boys Records?"

Jesus youd never tire of beating yerman

omg cunt

I'd say he has a wonderful mother the cunt

Not enough bullying in the world for this Powell cunt

I secretly enjoyed Paxo mocking Woods' whining "oh I don't know" stance (though it was a little mean).

She was overperforming it a wee bit tbf but y

Lambda, who doesn't know that wavelength is lambda. Idiots, blew it.

great finish tho