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

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

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

kendrickkkkk

Good follow up joke about Kate Tempest available but ah fuck it tonight's the most coverage she's had in 5 years

Forgive me if I'm missing a joke about her ubiquity, but she's on 6 Music all the time, which is why I got that group.

So weird that whathisface knew all those 1908 books quick smart but couldn't see that Amsterdam and Atonement were written by the same person.

yeah i though they missed lots of sitters tbh

that Cavendish/Sagan one screwed Glasgow, they might have done it otherwise

I always assumed the bonus questions come up randomly but courtauld have been very lucky both times in having a lot of art questions and very few detailed science ones. Amazed they didn't get Lucian Freud though.

she's on 6 Music all the time

this is one of the many, many, many reasons why i'm not

i got those groups pretty easy btw, put Tempest in there thru logic but honestly couldn't think who it was referring to

I liked this episode of UC. 18 questions correct.

awfully likeable teams these

Bugsy Malone

And I agree with you D but my god they don't watch films

oh shit bugsy malone

(on a delay)

yanks gotten overconfident now dislike

"is that the actor from rocky"

He seems to be right on the line between arrogance and enthusiasm but that's the winning team for tis tournament right there

never predict a knockout contest lad

yanks gotten overconfident now dislike

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Lol this buffoon on Pointless who didn't think thru why Oliver Cromwell has never been on a banknote

yanks gotten overconfident now dislike

Not sure whether his Alex Trebek t-shirt is meant to be a dig at Paxo or not. If not, and it's just a straight-up tribute to Trebek, then I still like him.

The show was recorded the week Trebek was diagnosed with cancer. It's a straight-up tribute.

In that case, I applaud him.

On Pointless today, I knew that Luzon was an island in the Philippines because of Manila Luzon, the drag queen.

mid afternoon quiz programmes ahoy. tipping point, I think.

an accordionist is associated with which instrument?

a pizzeria mostly serves which Italian food?

celeb chaser was good vfm though.

'Quizmaster' on ITV right now feat our resident quiz champ!

just caught Ailsa...

Agatha Christie novels are a disadvantage because they are long and you have a very limited time.

HI I'M ERIC MONKMAN!

I actually did okay (not comparable to the full-on quizzers here, but okay) on the Christie round but yeah, they're a lot more of a mouthful than most countries or football teams.

Bloody tough show this one, amazingly good work to get into the second round, Ailsa.

Just got home in time to see Ailsa and have a laugh with my mom about Monkman

!!!

Watching now. So cool.

Cheers guys. There was a hell of a lot of editing, I was stuck inside the studio/green room for 15 hours on the hottest day of the year.

Still, at least I'm now mates with Barry from Eastenders.

which is only one step from Ricky Gervais...

FFS! Why didn't I know about this beforehand? AILSA?

I posted it on Facebook, but I was pretty much in denial about the whole thing.

Monkman totally Monkmans it up for the camera, he's really quite quiet

The highlight of my entire day was when Bobby found out that the warmup guy also did warmups for Love Island and asked him so many questions about Love Island that the guy was weirded out. He kept trying to get back to do his audience bit but Bobby was all "wait! What's Caroline Flack really like? Do you know in advance what they're going to show? Do you get to see everything that doesn't go on TV?" and the guy's all "I just do jokes with the audience..."

Big Suze!

absolute joke how long these pisstakers are taking without any intervention from the big dog

I don't wanna be that guy* but I am so weary of Richard Osman

*I do wanna be that guy

Any reason in particular?

It was very interesting to see how little Wadham pissed about with discussions when they weren't in the lead.

I dunno he's everywhere lately and a shade smug and possibly melty

the best thing of the decade thing Osman did was long and unnecessary but usually he improves everything he's on.

Christmas only connect specials have been a treat, UC less so, even if the questions were pitched at just about my level. couldn't be bothered with big fat quiz of the decade.

Really enjoyed Richard Coles and one other from his team dishing out defeat to a series of Oxbridge alums (including some political journalists I dislike and Allison Pearson, who must be the stupidest woman ever admitted by Cambridge). Shame the final aired on the day he buried his husband, though.

I share Suzy's approval of the victory of Leeds University over Wadham College - a dreadful, reprehensible, though effective team.

I was thrilled by COLES and GEE's excellence in overcoming them.

Was Allison Pearson really on this series though? That sounds 'divisive' - I mean she is practically at Katy Hopkins level by now.

Funnily enough Osman posted something during the election about the Con party wanting to privatize the NHS. I have tried to be more positive about him since.

Osman is a centrist melt. I love him on Pointless but dislike his presentation style solo - I think he's a great straight man but a bad frontman?

Shame the final aired on the day he buried his husband, though.

Ah damn, this is really sad.

those questions where victoria shakes her head and wonders if anyone managed it, those are the ones i get (they are almost always number sequence questions). crap at most of the others though.

Trinity is quite tough.

I got the Greek letter anagrams so I'm basically retiring now.

Poor Manchester, that was a mauling.