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

The standard of contestants is wildy variable, but the questions are usually pretty good. Once you teach yourself to find Sandi Toksvig's endless "been there, done that" anecdotes charming, it's OK.

only care about good questions and 15 to 1 is the only one bar UC that delivers

he's a kid, possibly ARMCHAIR DIAGNOSIS REDACTED, he's got time to learn humility

eric monkman is twenty-nine earth years old btw

The Chase >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eggheads in terms of good questions, and there's a huge amount of them in one show.

Eggheads might have the worst questions of any TV quiz show ever - either blatantly obvious or mind-numbingly dull with no middle ground, and some of the stupidest multiple-choice options ever - things like "When did Wham have their first hit, was in the 1960s, 1980s or 2000s" level of inanity. Then you come up against some fucking bullshit that usually reserved for a pub triv machine that doesn't want to pay out, like FIFA world rankings of crap countries with only a one-point margin of error in the multiple choices. I've never come away from an episode of Eggheads feeling I've learned something useful and also Jeremy Vine is terrible.

too slow as well, i want to watch a bunch of questions, not a dozen with aching gaps between them

lol at Monkman being 29, armchair diagnosis accepted

The Chase is OK, Tipping point is ha-ha-ha ahem...

Recent q: "What instrument is a guitarist particularly interested in?"

Fifteen to One is shit now. Too much chattin', not enough quizzin'

RIP William G

Thing I have learned recently about Eggheads - they edit questions out if there's a couple of questions where both contestant & Egg answer correctly and it doesn't affect the result. Yet they still leave in all the interminable waffle.

I like Sandi Toksvig but don't feel like her style is best served being a 15-to-1 host. The show is still okay, though, I just think it's an odd fit. I can't stand Bradley Walsh but agree that the questions on the Chase are usually pretty good.

Just realised I missed almost all of this season's Only Connect due to them fucking around with the scheduling. I totally don't get why they'd move it from the 'next to University Challenge' slot. And like, the programmes surrounding UC were Top Gear and some Mary Berry cooking show, why would OC get moved for those??

Hasn't Toksvig already started doiing something else after hosti8ng Qi for one season? Is she going to be returning to that or wasn't she liked in that role?

no-one actually likes Eggheads surely? how is it still being made? (also, it's annoying that they don't put the questions up on the screen, only the multiple choice answers, meaning that you can't even watch it with the sound off like you can with The Chase)

I liked that thing Gabby Logan presented that was half quiz and half ppl playing lawn bowls

I once saw someone from ILX on that one.

xpost Toksvig is also going to be doing the Great British Bake Off. She's stealthily taking over all TV ever.

I'm watching Eggheads right now thanks to this thread. I've nearly lost the will to live and they haven't even started asking any questions yet.

There are three blokes on just now who don't know what alt-right means.

If it's multiple choice it's not a quiz umo

eric monkman is twenty-nine earth years old btw

Eggheads is terrible.
There's an appalling daytime quiz called Beat the Brain featuring the voice of a sexy brain iirc. And John Craven.

The sexy brain was Josie Lawrence, is it still?

If so, that's alright then.

haha, yes it is

c'mon, even at 29 monkman is only strange if you're a very bland person who still uses the word "weirdo" in their 40s

yeah i don't think anybody's thrown by his "strangeness"

Not in 40s

Monkman strange

TV themes for the music round rather than opera - good start

Challenge is back. And mastermind. And only connect.

I made a good fist of both the Simon and Garfunkel and Miyazaki specialised subject questions. Tom and jerry, Catbus...

He took a loooong time to recall Carrie Fisher

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/34/monkman-and-seagulls-polymathic-adventure

I love the interruption bait questions like the oolong tea one.

the In C question was this week's shouting at the tv moment. tbf, it wasn't obvious that In C was the name of the piece but...

david hockney lives!

Art students be rubbish at recognising artists non-shocker.

They had a "Hamilton" round, one of the students stomped on every question, no prob.

Yeah, that was dull because dude recognised the first Hamilton tune so quickly that you immediatley knew he's obsessed with the thing and will get all answers right.

Also, irate rage at neither team getting that the language a group of books including "The Book Of Disquiet" and a Saramago joint were written in was Portuguese >:(

Savages.

I only knew that one because of ILB.

Funnily enough I got that one right as soon as Paxo said "The Book of Disquiet". (I didn't hear the rest of the question because I was explaining to the other half *how* I knew all about that).

Oh god parr-reid

Both these teams are shit

Ya

But seven reasonably unassassinatable from 8 seems noteworthy

winning captain was a bit eye-rolly, the best bit of the match was when Nielsen slowly but clearly asserted herself as being their one good player

Chris de burgh from.terry and June now on about the normans on bbc4 btw

i'm off to bed for a read, can't handle Mondays atm

Dude I can't sell it any harder than I have tbf

that shit is my catnip normally but my eyes are saying no

I never knew the Radiohead plagiarism story but just realised it before Paxo gave the answer

Ha

Yeah, I told me band about it, they thought I was kidding.

Yas I got that death valley one thanks to wasting an evening on this:
mongoose murder, a fatal zipline and suicide by san francisco area park: a compendium of internet failure

I want to go back to university just to go on this, tbh.