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

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.

I can't get on board with Impossible. It has the same dead-air feeling as Eggheads.

Imagine what it was like before if what you're seeing is the edited version of retakes...

Good grief.

House of Games and Pointless are partly great because Richard and Xander are smart enough to join in.

That Imperial team was really impressive

Only Connect and the Orwellians are appropriately rubbish

not a quiz show but the day I went to be in the studio audience for Hole In The Wall was no joke the greatest day of my life

I watched UC and did quite well last night!

not a quiz show but the day I went to be in the studio audience for Hole In The Wall was no joke the greatest day of my life

I want to know more.

it was the second season, where Anton Du Beke was the host. We got to see Anne Diamond and Eastenders' Nasty Nick as contestants. We arrived at the end of the queue and they had over-sold the tickets to avoid there being any empty seats. There were seven of us waiting and five seats left, and the family beside us starting talking in loud Fife accents about how far they had travelled to Glasgow for this, so me and my pal started exclaiming "strewth mate, bloody 'ell" in remarkably unconvincing Australian accents and yet somehow managed to get picked ahead of the family. The warm-up act before the main show was doing a competition where they were giving away tickets to the X Factor live final, but wasn't allowed to say the name of the show and had to convey the prize by forming an X with their arms multiple times, leaving lots of people struggling to grasp what the prize was. Then at the end we hung around the BBC Studios and got a photo with Du Beke. Best day ever!

ACTUALLY the best day ever was the day we got picked to go on BBC Scotland's kids' TV show "Up For It" after submitting my Elvis-impersonating grandpa for "Groovy Grandad Of The Day", that was when I got to meet pop sensation Kavana and Scotland coach Craig Brown, as well as visit the Fully Booked set and meet Gail Porter, Tim Vincent and Chris Jarvis. We also ran into Mrs Mack from Take The High Road that day.

That does all sound fantastic.

I did a run through for The Hit List to help out a mate, and I got a hug from Marvin and Rochelle who are very lovely people. Marvin is an absolute pro at doing telly. Hanging about with telly people doing telly is fun. Also I totally want to be a contestant on The Hit List.

I love that programme. I hope they're doing more of them.

omfg how did I miss Eastham first go round?

i'm using this as general purpose quiz programme thread

celeb countdown (not 8/10 cats, just celebs head to head, slightly relaxed rules). there was a bit of a tutorial section in the middle where rachel pointed out this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQYYz92-Uk

by choosing all the big numbers you pretty much know what you're getting which helps. she went through the above technique with an example and then gave the celebs (jay raynor, jo brand) a set exercise, which they fluffed.

(the guy above showboats a bit - rather than big number * 50 and then / 100 he could've just 100 / 50 = 2, big number / 2 = answer)

(relaxed rules = loser also gets points. plus the above set exercise which was basically free points as long as you noticed that 3 * 5 = 15 is twice 7.5)

((carol also faffing about somewhat. trouble multiplying a 3 digit number by fifty? just half it and stick two noughts on the end))

((75 - 10) x 25) + 1 x (50/100)

I did a run through for The Hit List to help out a mate, and I got a hug from Marvin and Rochelle who are very lovely people. Marvin is an absolute pro at doing telly. Hanging about with telly people doing telly is fun. Also I totally want to be a contestant on The Hit List.

― ailsa, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:05 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I love that programme. I hope they're doing more of them.

― trishyb, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:10 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

S2 started on Saturday in case you missed it

It's so much up my street. I still totally want to go on it.

I was keeping half an eye on the hit list, but they didn't call for more contestants. Grr

I have never seen a bigger set of cunts and basics than on Pointless tonight

In fairness, though, that dog round was weak. A pug is an animal footprint?

Nah I hadn't got a clue about that one but it rings a vague bell now they've revealed it.

There's a lot of bank people and *spit* entrepreneurs tonite tho

It's so much up my street.

Ailsa, it would've been so much up mine 10, and even more, 20 years ago but now my reaction times have been shot through age and I don't know a lot of the modern stuff, so....

Well, that's why I'd pair up with our Alice.

Was caught out by Kate Tempest being included in a list of poets