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

Oh, I had "The Great Gatsby", our Alice had "The Great Showman", we fell about when we found it was "The Rugrats Movie".

As I say, it does the viewers a favour, as we get a chance to answer before you guys get in with yr buzzers, otherwise no chance.

Sorry, I meant as a viewer it lulls you into thinking you could be good at it on the telly, then reality hits when you're squinting at a screen the other side of the studio at things you totally think "I'd be screaming at the telly from my couch, wtf is going on?" then you think you were really quick and then you watch it on telly and you're glacially slow.

FWIW, we recorded a year ago. I paused at the start of our wall last night to let my other half have a crack at it, and didn't even spot the one I'd got myself straight away until he'd seen it :-(

i got one of your questions one step before you did, fwiw (bikini...). but that and 1 (one) missing vowel were it. i suck.

28-19 btw

Aw no, I missed last night's show. Go go Ailsa anyway.

That Eastenders question was some all-time Ailsa magic. "Because of COURSE she knows that," we both said.

The rest of the missing vowels stank, all far too long and complicated.

I knew it was going to be a bad missing vowels round because there was so much chat and singing beforehand.

1st 2 rounds OC were impossible this wk!

i got the Sunday one

Haven't watched this week's but tbh I'm happy if I get one or two. Was happy to see A again last week. I want to see Noodle's ep!

Think i've got it saved somewhere, i'll have a look some time. Let me just say i'm glad we didn't play Ailsa's team :D

I got the Sunday one after 2 clues, but by and large I was glad that wasn't one of our shows.

Noodle's show is probably on YouTube, but the YouTube clips are a bit shonky in that they're cut off and you can't see the clues along the bottom, which somewhat ruins the playalongability

Rampant high-fiving from one team this week. Up or down with this kind of thing?

wtf with the pinata?

oh wait i guess it was introduced in the first two minutes that i always skip. seemed like it had turned into shooting stars for a minute.

300th episode. We recorded the 299th and saw it in the rafters and thanked our lucky stars we weren't involved in piñata madness. I have a special 300th episode badge somewhere just for being in the building when they recorded it.

The high-fiving on UC is toe-curling. It's toe-curling in and of itself, but they're so terrible at it.

it's all instigated by Golfinos though

i liked the pinata. she gave it a good old whack during the credits.

two connections that they didn't get and a row of the wall that they didn't see (Loo, Rave...). probably my most successful episode of the season.

"It is a word one but you'd have to be a genius to spot it"

*cough*

*cough cough*

I can't imagine seeing a more exultant reaction to a set of questions on Jean Racine

That was great. Especially when they suddenly went "oh, maybe we don't know everything about Racine" half way through the first question.

The word "Trigger" makes me think of Tigger, so

I didn't get that one. I did get the bird one on the wall immediately, which I was pleased about. Plus I got that one of the groups was people who had been exiled, which I was also pleased with (even though I didn't get all the right people).

I was pretty pleased that I got the electric avenue, guns of brixton, lambeth, london one.

wow, well done. despite living in lambeth for 12 years and knowing all the songs and thinking 'hmm electric avenue is in brixton...' i didn't get it. genius credentials revoked.

It's toe-curling in and of itself, but they're so terrible at it.

I can't support high-fiving but awkward high-fiving is great TV imo

After Electric Avenue and Guns Of Brixton, I was shouting BILLY BRAGG'S A NEW ENGLAND! at the telly, because I hadn't thought about Lambeth and had skipped straight on to London for #3. I wonder if it would have been allowed as an alternative answer.

she's never off our telly now, it's like if romesh did quizzing... 8)

a meniscus away from snatching it (and even I knew that one)

I've mentioned before about the delay in the missing vowels round. We had less than a second to answer the last one. I had barely registered the fact a clue had come up when the buzzer sounded for the end of the match.

I haven't actually seen it yet, but there's a story about how we didn't get Aqua either. But I don't know how it played on the telly, so I can't really explain right now.

bad luck - tough questions all round, they did well to get the alphabet keyboard one(*) but got lucky with the alkanes.

(*) especially as it referred to the american version of the song (ending in zee), though i suspect this the universal alphabet song now and the version i grew up with (ending in zed) is all but forgotten.

I blame Sesame Street

Tough luck, Ailsa. I have never seen one of those missing letters things with a single letter before (though I wasn't a regular viewer prior to this series).

It is interesting that they have a third place play off. Like the football World Cup.

We were so disappointed for you, Ailsa. Next year, eh?

fun facts getting very tortured this late in the game...

(i hope we go the entire episode without referencing the ruff, like it's the most normal thing in the world)

none of you have seen the big lebowski?

This Frederick Leo guy is a lot.

his elbow gets higher for every starter question.

Dave and Lindsay had seen the Big Lebowski but didn't know what I was on about with the "watt wood/what would" thing, so didn't make the connection. Also we were knackered and filmed just after being knocked out in the last round, so weren't in the best frame of mind. I, of course, have seen no films ever. I haven't actually seen tonight's show yet, but Olly's ruff was a fucking riot. He actually had the hose as well, but chose to tone it down with a pair of jeans so as not to look ridiculous. VCM didn't mention it once until after the cameras stopped rolling.

My "fun fact" was quite the surprise as it wasn't the one we'd gone over pre-show. Which was more fun than the "here's some shite dull people put as "interests" on their CV" bollocks that they sprung on me.

I did a quiz against Freddy Leo a couple of weeks ago. He's quite intense, but seems lovely. I also got v drunk with the Edinburgh Uni challenge team (well, Matt Booth and Max Fitz-James) and none of us let on how we'd done on our respective shows.

Both the OC and UC teams this week seemed like a lovely bunch of people. The only reason I was glad that Edinburgh won was that it's always nice when an Oxbridge college does not win.

Leo seems like a total nightmare

the rest all fine

lol I'm obsessed with Leo - he says he's from Berlin but has no accent? I want to know his backstory.

He's quite intense, but seems lovely.

This is exactly what I'd expect.

I was happy I knew the pic was Natalie Wood. It's not often I get any right when nobody else does. I'm also extremely sad Olly did not wear the hose.

i would struggle thinking of more than one fun fact. and probably wouldn't need a second, let alone a 4th.

i like the way leo works things out, you can hear him thinking (it also helps his teammates contribute).

got the first 3 answers in only connect final and then nothing else.

can't believe they voice-overed the presentation of the award though.

Oh the fun fact thing..

My guess is that they have a ton of these, and you get to pick one you like or has happened to you, nearly or fully.

Yeah?