Hope he dies
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Just watched it, so angry with interrupting goat woman right now.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
I love it when you get a super intense dude
Also why are British composers always Elgar?
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Same reason Hungarian ones are always Bartok.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
just once they should go with bálint bakfark
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
It's never Saint-Saens.
― jmm, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Also good when they go for Nordic composers rather than specifically Norwegian, usually that means it's Sibelius rather than Grieg.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Euler's the only Swiss physicist
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
The only one who posts to ILX anyway.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
xpost it's sometimes Bernoulli, just to annoy me.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
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.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 10:22 (seven years ago) link
... or Holst.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
Goehr!
(There's two but Alexander's dad Walter actual was German)
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
sorry, that is "called Jeremy Paxman a whore"
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:37 (seven years ago) link
This is too bad. One of the SOAS team members died since the filming.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem114853.html
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
:-(
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/
― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
ah that's so sad
― kinder, Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
FUCK OFF HAT BOY, YOU SHOULD NOT GET POINTS FOR SCOTTISH "NATIONALIST" PARTY, THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO ME
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Monday, 26 September 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I guess Bowie died in vain
― Number None, Monday, 26 September 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
'The man who fell to earth'?
― Mark G, Monday, 26 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
'john lennon and the beatles?'
(syd barrett and pink floyd)
students these days...
― koogs, Monday, 10 October 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
I didn't get that :/ but I did get Peter Gabriel before the music even started.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Monday, 10 October 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
xpost are awesome
― legitimate concerns about ducks (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 October 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, "Octopus" is sort of Lennon-ish, e.g. "Yellow Submarine", I admit I smiled..
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
tbf when they have the 50 year-olds on in the summer they always identify current pop stars immediately
― legitimate concerns about ducks (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 October 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
bloke dressed as one of blake's seven gets the sci-fi movie still starter question...
and then they fail abysmally at the 3 follow up questions.
― koogs, Monday, 7 November 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
switched over to bbc2 after reading that post to see this outfit for myself, and he doesn't disappoint
― soref, Monday, 7 November 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
second-round questions are always harder than first round, right? Gets more boring when I barely get any of them and the music rounds are all sodding opera
― kinder, Monday, 7 November 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
I thought that was mostly horrible tonight in terms of questions. Also the first wall on Only Connect was tough as fuck.
― ailsa, Monday, 7 November 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
there were two rounds right after i turned on which were dickens novels and then sci-fi movies... i think that would've been my entire contribution for the evening.
― koogs, Monday, 7 November 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
I got the sci fi movies, got one music round ("which Austrian composer..." "probably Mozart"), guessed two of the Dickenses, basically fell asleep through all the sciencey questions.
― ailsa, Monday, 7 November 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Dickens is one of my major University Challenge weaknesses
― Number None, Monday, 7 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
'Which British Composer... '
(All together now) Benjamin Brittain!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
xxxpost the Only Connect walls and the last two missing vowels rounds were impossible last night but I was very proud of myself for getting one of the connection rounds correct on two clues ("songs covered by solo Spice Girls")
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link
xpost, yeah, said that without even hearing the music :-)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link
Also got Spice Girl solo songs, celebrity mugshots, Scottish election results and capitals of countries with Guinea in their names all after two. The sequences round was a total blowout.
xpost again
― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 11:02 (seven years ago) link
I knew the tie-breaker the second he said "Kullervo", so I feel like I won this episode.
― jmm, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
Hacker T Dog on Celeb Mastermind tonight. might win it too.
― koogs, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
(second by 1 point - 18 v 19)
― koogs, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Good, I hate that fucking thing.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
goth historian
― koogs, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
i love her so much
yay for token City of Dug Up Pavements 2017 questions
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
This programme was tremendous!
I don't know what koogs' comment above means.
I did enjoy watching the vivid expressions of a couple of the winning team.
Simon Armitage was remarkably bad - I imagine there has been some kind of twitterstorm about his poor performance.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 10:19 (seven years ago) link
PF: http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/13810742.Medieval_treasure__Meet_Janina_Ramirez___the_woman_making_history_hip/
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Everyone I knew who did Anglo-Saxon/Norse/Celtic was some kind of goth
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
ha
I nearly did an Anglo-Saxon evening class this year, but then I baulked at paying £300/realised I was too lazy to do enough work to get £300 worth of learning out of the course
guess that makes me a cheapskate slacker goth-wannabe
(have not seen the prog yet, have residual crush on S. Armitage or at least his voice from the Mark & Lard Graveyard Shift days so I shall prepare to be disappointed, I suppose)
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 22 December 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link
I didn't think Armitage was so useless - he got two Geoffrey Hill questions right!
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 22 December 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link
Paul Ross very impressive yet still very annoying; quite a feat.
― mahb, Thursday, 22 December 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
one managed by most contestants tbph
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 December 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link