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

another male captain seemingly reluctant to listen to his teammate...

Yeah I wondered about this one, and she was clearly their best player.

Before I go there has this Only Connect team got any ilxor connections?

second team didn't seem to get that picking the third row also completes the fourth row and you can use that as a sanity check, rather than randomly picking 4 out of 5 shakespeare-based things.

pvr didn't pick up the new series so i missed the first half...

and there's no repeat

there's iplayer. which i could use to answer this question: what was the watt west tungsten won connection? got distracted. & was the arsonists thing just a poorly formed 'joke'?

W

all can be "abbreviated" as W

Chippy is my specialist subject

Yeah I nailed those v quick

tactical error from manchester, east london don't listen to the questions. they should both lose.

That "pairs of words, one beginning with At" set was embarrassing

"Means"

Poptimists on OC are friends of mine, and were unaware of Poptimism.

Dead Kennedys finally got the UC recognition they deserve.

Io! It's fucking Io you prick!

srsly

theyre turning me feminist these dense fucks

On the sequences round on tonight's OC I was trying to think of someone who's middle initial was H.

My answer was Jesus Christ. I'd like to think I would have got the points.

theres only him and macy rly

D Lawrence
W Smith

p scale

we are in love with hertz and adès

last nights contestants were quite shockingly awfully behaved this lot nicer

hang on, there have been multiple episodes this week?

christmas alumni contest nightly on bbc4

ah, looks like it's from 2014

so any correct answers would be somewhat tainted

Also all celebrity alumni are pig thick or ordered to play it that way

God bless that little chump getting all over-excited

I can't look at anything else now

walls brutal on OC tonight

higgins seems like less fun than a teammate would ideally be

whatre the rules on nomination i can never work it out

If captain can't figure out how to say the thing they can nominate a teammate to say the thing.

good zing re jesus

Or if it's a popular band/film they don't want to admit they know

celebrity teams manchester polytechnic vs goldsmiths and neil innes is every bit the cunt i expected

jon thomson quite adorably seems to think he needs to use Bernard hills mic

ah these lads are my fave team of all time already

ok rae is p cool i guess

GWAN THE FUCKIN LADS GIVE IT RIGHT UP EM

and finished by paxman dropping london where it counts

best ever episode tbh

ilxor OC posse represent

only connect got bossed

Thanks for not being mean

Thanks for not being mean

i missed it :-(

oh wow, nice one. You were v good on the quick-fire round

Penny's just dropped. Storming performance, ailsa.

Cheers. At some point, we remember to tell Dave not to take all the credit for other people's contributions. That was not that episode :-)