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

I know that was def a blink moment

We noticed Woods totally ignoring Powell for large parts of the show. I reckon she developed the supercilious left eyebrow to mock him out of his line of vision.

She was definitely there to keep the boys inline as a Captain should. And 'Warfarin' was definitely delivered to say the least...

It's my life's work to cultivate an eyebrow like that

two captains separated at birth

I liked that movie round

only got the last artist though

Handy enough this week I thought, prob meaning the question were well below the intellectual range of the overlords

I got the fastest interruption, when Paxo said 'Bodrum" I said 'Halicarnassus'.

I figured it out

Johnny Evans

Bennett still v intersting obv

Only 9/20, less than 50% :(

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/18/can-you-beat-the-boffins-take-the-hardest-university-challenge-quiz-ever

So is it an oxbridge final? Fuck that shit.

8 for me. Some near misses, a couple I should have known but couldn't think of.

So is it an oxbridge final? Fuck that shit.

Yes and yes. Also I'm not sure I can bear to watch Peterhouse again.

12, not bad for a Monday

Well, that was a touch one-sided. And I get irrationally furious when Paxo refers to Powell as Oscar, it's quite unnecessarily paternalistic.

Is that the lowest team score ever?

xp Wasn't Paxman just making fun of Woods?

Woods was my favourite this season. Glad to see her win.

I liked Woods too. Plus I can't abide all-male teams, am always rooting for them to fuck up.

Whatever it was, it was annoying. He did it earlier in the series too. Also Peterhouse seemed to get longer before he gets exasperated with the time taking conferring. I did feel he was quite well-disposed towards them xp

Woods was great, yes. Really good at going "shall I just say that?" and listening to the rest of the team as well as being pretty useful at answering questions. Felt sorry for Clegg as he'd been really good the rest of the series, but he and his team just never got started.

I forgot about Brejevs. He was really good too. Unfortunately his team was not as strong.

It's baaack

Ireland

omg

his name was Boyle too...

Wait what!

Easy mistake, anybody from outside Eurasia could've made it

I think he said Åland which is a pretty good guess IMO since the answer was Gotland

ah that seems right darnit

Yeah, I heard Åland which seemed a fair enough wrong guess to me and was quite surprised to see so many folk going "lol Ireland"

oh.

Yeah, Paxo almost did one but then he thought about it, I'm positive.

couldn't tell whether it was the Paxo stink-eye or the Paxo good guess response

This cunt

Hope he dies

Just watched it, so angry with interrupting goat woman right now.

I love it when you get a super intense dude

Also why are British composers always Elgar?

Same reason Hungarian ones are always Bartok.

just once they should go with bálint bakfark

It's never Saint-Saens.

Also good when they go for Nordic composers rather than specifically Norwegian, usually that means it's Sibelius rather than Grieg.

Euler's the only Swiss physicist

The only one who posts to ILX anyway.

xpost it's sometimes Bernoulli, just to annoy me.

Seems a bit odd that one of the key figures of an independent Finnish cultural identity always gets tagged as "Nordic" and never "Finnish". (PS I know v little about these things so maybe it's not odd at all, he was from a Swedish-speaking family and all)

Hungarian is 60/40 Liszt/Bartok I reckon, and Czech is usually Dvorak. There was a whole round on Hungarian composers recently iirc; the team guessed Liszt wrongly to the first two and didn't get the last one, which finally was Liszt. I felt their pain.

Always want "English composer" to be Finzi just for the not-English surname to throw off guesses.

... or Holst.

Goehr!

(There's two but Alexander's dad Walter actual was German)

British is always Britten, Elgar, Williams, or Handel or something from the Planets Suite. If you say Saint-Saens for a French composer, you're bound to get one answer right.

Delighted to discover I work with an acquaintance of the guy who called Jeremy Paxman last year.

Bálint Bakfark is an incredible name.

sorry, that is "called Jeremy Paxman a whore"

This is too bad. One of the SOAS team members died since the filming.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem114853.html

:-(

Also a contestant on Pointless this week died since filming: http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/15/pointless-fast-tracked-an-episode-so-contestant-suffering-cancer-could-watch-it-before-she-died-6130754/