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

It's always like this

Ha came here for the Lanchester chat
The Christmas ones are more my pace these days, I'm afraid to say.

that Ivan the Terrible question ffs

Many questions

Jones having an absolute mare trevor

Nott

Nott, yes

The fuck did i get Jones

So many binomials

Nott good

nice to see Manchester actually conferring and not shouting over each other like yesterday's dicks tho

The fuck did i get Jones

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/16/riba-president-alan-jones-reinstated-after-admitting-to-affair

shite on UC too

Must have blinked at the wrong moment, ta

it seems Juliet Jacques (aka @zinovievletter) was on this tonight.

She was! She did OK, got excited when one of the answers was Pacman

it doesn't matter because lol nothing matters but last night was a clear example of why the system adopted for the Christmas shows doesn't work, both teams last night were probably better than any of the preceding four, but because they were both decent the score was closer and neither are likely to make the semis

Fucking pitiful this lot

Yeah, classic examples of dithering, not listening, and being a bit dim.

Did the non xmas series end? Managed to be watching something else and don't seem to be able to find recent episodes to d/ld.
& other things are clashing with the xmas ones.

Did get to see the SWANS documentary though. Good film.

Last Non-Christmas one went out on Monday 14th*, but this week has been Christmas episodes, one per day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t6l0/episodes/player

* It was the guy we mentioned before, grumpy looking but impressive. He'd been promoted to captain but it felt like it him vs the entire other team.

So was that series end or is it just a break?
I didn't think the last one I saw was a final with associated trappings.
But yeah had to look up the series number and episode number so came across those dates.
Have caught at least one of these Christmas run and possibly last year's on BBC4.

It's just a break, the normal series will continue in January. I think the next one will be the last before quarterfinals.

that was my alma mater on today and it sounds like monty panesar would've been in my department (albeit 15 years after me)

(i don't think i heard him say a single word after his introduction)

He didn't. I remember him being on Celebrity Mastermind a while back and wondered if he'd redeem himself on this as he or someone in his orbit clearly fancies him to be ok at quizzes.

popsicle. fuck off

I wasn't paying attention

Top comedian on University Challenge who i wouldn't recognise if he was sat on the end of my settee

OH FFS IT'S AMOL RAJAN

Deeks on OC. Familiar from me saying he looked familiar last time he was on something.

The level of ignorance on display in Christmas UC continues to amaze

The G family were pretty hot on the series of music questions. Alice got Sia way ahead of them all.

Missed the OC portillo punchline in the gap between programmes.

Seemed apt to have a question about the Peter principle tonight

We might have to stop watching Christmas University Challenge, because my husband is going to have a fit shouting at the teams about how stupid they are. Who doesn't know Saul Bass, ffs?

Always with the German administrative areas.

I couldn't remember Saul Bass's name myself, when watching the programme.

Tonight Lanchester was knocked out.

Questions included METROPOLIS, NOSFERATU, THE WHO at the Isle of Wight, George Cukor films.

I was in a school Shakespeare play with the Courtauld team leader. She had the lead and I was “citizen 2”

Tuesday's, Reading vs New College Oxford, was the most fucking embarrassing all round display of zero general knowledge and inability to even listen to the question.

I liked the Courtauld team leader. She had very can-do spirit.

Courtauld are the most likeable team altho I wish Juliet and Manchester well, tonight at least

Tuesday's, Reading vs New College Oxford, was the most fucking embarrassing all round display of zero general knowledge and inability to even listen to the question.

Agreed, although Loughborough versus UCLAN wasn't exactly stellar television either. Like the comedy shows, I can only assume they're having difficulty getting people to agree to risk putting themselves through it this year.

Nah the alumni are surprisingly ignorant every year

Christmas UC questions seem a bit harder this year (or perhaps I am a bit slower). I seem to remember more questions like “What is the name of the Christmas ballet by Tchaikovsky called the Ntcracker?” in the past

God I'm embarrassed on behalf of Loughborough

Feel for Fix, at least she's trying.

Fox dang autocorrect

Gotta hand it to Monty, you wait all episode for him to buzz in, but when he does he's wrong

catching up on OC now. is she going to wear that hat all show?

ah...

> God I'm embarrassed on behalf of Loughborough

Watching this now and neither team are doing well but the monomania of the sports stars is showing, Fox seems to be the only one that has any general knowledge.

Having two cricketers on the team all well and good, but if you don't get the questions...

Paul Sinha has been the answer twice tonight.