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

UC is back btw!

Always a delight when it suddenly turns up again

The brainiac in the losing team this week was giving off strong "why did i get paired with these losers, i coulda been a contender" vibes in the end credits

I enjoyed the arrival of the volcano bonus questions when he flung a pointing finger at the volcano guy at the other end of the team who thankfully was able to answer them all

calm down, Wang

calm down, hardwick, you can push the button with one finger, you don't need to move your entire arm.

wang? hardwick?? you're killing me. what'll next week's annoying captain be called?

I missed it !!!

look I know this is hugely inappropriate but it's like a row of trophies on a shelf

the two faces of gareth bale here

look I know this is hugely inappropriate but it's like a row of trophies on a shelf

the first one was studying aerodynamics

lol I turned on late and missed that detail

ok i love leeks

studio ghibli effort at an oxbridge student

everybody else is more irish than that Irish lad

no place for gael-shaming on ilx

ive more gael in my clippings than yon souper

Maximum condescending mode from Paxman during the music round

It's true but in his defense it is pretty ridiculous that two teams on this show, especially Oxbridge teams, could not identify the composers of "Ave Maria" or "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring". Not to mention guessing Robert the Bruce as a fighter against the Romans in the era of Nero.

Well, I guess it was just one team that failed on "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" but I did get a nice chuckle out of them guessing Benjamin Britten for that.

Tbh the general knowledge of both classical and popular music amongst teams is generally appalling

Nah, they usually have a go-to classical music person on the team

Pop is an afterthought, but it doesn't crop up as much

Not these days, but when it does it can get so I even struggle.

I thought it was usually classical one week, pop the next - last two have been classical though.

they had a round of pop qs to which the answers were Metric, then Pavement, then one I didn't catch. Both pretty obscure by the standards of UC I thought.

Third was Kings of Leon. The questions were hard too, I didn't get the first two.

Lowest combined score, I thought that normally if one team got things wrong throughout it gavc the other team a chance to increase their advantage but i think they're at a tie for lowest winning too.

Hope this remains an outlier.

Billy Idol.

^ this

"The Byrds?" (The Velvet Underground)

Some of the guitar on that album does sound like loops of Byrds tracks. All Tomorrows Parties sounds like a sample of Chimes of Freedom
& I could see it all blending into similar sounding if you're not familiar with it. Would hope all self respecting students should be obligitarily familar with the Velvets though. Omigod the youth of today, eh?

Well glad last week wasn't quite repeated

I’ve never seen someone look that miserable pronouncing the words “mulch” or “tuba”

Bland Cams Cooper Raffle Cuthbert Dibble & Grub.

4 of 3 10 fuck off

missed the first three only connects of the new series. 8(

scottish indie bands on the wall.

havent been watching, when did they start having real people on

One-off get-them-all-out-of-the-way-at-once special I think

creditable enough from both teams imo and not a character in sight

yeah and i don't know if it was me but it was a pretty tough set tonight

i thought so too

the britpop questions were a doddle.

(for us olds anyway, the kids may've struggled)

billy wilders too, but there was a run of very technical/esoteric rounds

Open University vs. Huddersfield is definitely the most obscure matchup I've seen so far as a non-britisher. Had to look them both up

A quandary for those of us who instinctively support the non-posh lot. (That's everyone, right?)

A quandary for those of us who instinctively support the non-posh lot. (That's everyone, right?)

I do but the wife won't root for any teams w/o women on them and sadly that often clashes.

Dude on Millionaire at the moment, hilariously bad, phones a friend with A HISTORY DEGREE to ask which King approved Magna Carta and the friend tells him he doesn't really know but it might be John

New quizzes I've been giving a chance: The Wall wiff Danny Dyer -- absolutely awful. Only about six questions per show, and the Great British Public is not built for running around in front of a giant bagatelle willing giant balls to go into a particular hole. /FACE
Head Hunters with Rob Beckett -- I don't rate Rob Beckett as a comedian much, but he's actually pretty good as a quiz host (although he trips over unfamiliar words a bit too much. Maybe he'll settle into it), and there's quite a nice feeling of camaraderie in the studio on this one. Good number of questions, but the difficult ones fail the test of good quiz questions, in that you don't feel like you've learned anything interesting or valuable when you get them right. And the graphics are just terrible, like something they've had in a file since Going for Gold went off the air.
Yes, I work from home.

(wasn't that show where they had to get into the correct shape or get pushed into the pool also called The Wall?)

(oh, that was Hole in The Wall - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n53t6 )

Head Hunters with Rob Beckett -- I don't rate Rob Beckett as a comedian much, but he's actually pretty good as a quiz host (although he trips over unfamiliar words a bit too much. Maybe he'll settle into it)

Mate of mine worked on Head Hunters and said they had to do a terrific amount of retakes because Rob Beckett couldn't pronounce anything. Imagine what it was like before if what you're seeing is the edited version of retakes...

Clearly House of Games is the new daddy, but I love Impossible as well.