That new one with Zoe Lyons is a bit odd. I like the questions, but I'm not sure about the whole lightning conceit, and I wish ZL would relax a little and be more like herself.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
I quite like it despite thick contestants and they do get eliminated quickly. I think Zoe will eventually get more comfortable in her role. It is very similar to weakest link though.
― danzig, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
It is similar to Weakest Link and what's with the stupid games they get the contestants to play? Definitely a quiz show designed by committee.
Zoe's sparkly suit is nice though, a nod to shows past.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
It's an excellent suit, for sure.
I also quite like the final round. It reminds me of Trivial Pursuit, with a little bit of being your own chaser thrown in. But the insistence on being able to spell is, frankly, ableist as well as being unnecessarily convoluted.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link
Fuck me not these dark enlightenment cunts again what have I done to deserve this?
― Mommas, don't let your scampoes grow up to be bacon fries (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Humphreys is gone...who will be next??? Nobody will beat Magnussson's stint anyways.
Somehow I missed that Clive Anderson and Peter Snow had ever presented MM. I am beginning to think I was asleep through most of the Nineties.
Anyway, UC I got 16 tonight.Invisibilty, ether, Crick & Watson, El Salvador & Honduras, kingfisher, kookaburra, Jack London, Jump, cyclops, Cooperative Society, Suomi & Kronos, duckbilled platypus, Vanuatu, Mary Quant, Cathy Come Home, Tamar
The French round killed me. In common with Fairfax & Carstairs, I don't speak a word of the language.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 8 February 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
i got invisibility, tesseract, lulu, kookaburra, jack london, shepherd's bush (represent!), jump, cyclops, quant and cathy come home for 10. would've probably guessed coop and platypus but they answered before i could think.
― koogs, Monday, 8 February 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
You'd never get tired of smacking Rout
― Number None, Monday, 8 February 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
There's a new production team, but same old Humphrys and his interference with question process, so I won't be going back any time soon
A week's a long time in quiz shows.
Second thoughts on this, Ailsa?
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
Depends who it is :-)
― ailsa, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
Living for kohn interrupting an increasingly unpleasant paxman
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
Also kohns kindly but impatient handling of rahmans windiness while answering
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
Think the gambling commission needs to take a look at Triggs
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
wondering if Imperial needed quite so many points which must have occured to them at the end there so they started giving them away like
― Stevolende, Monday, 15 February 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Managed 12 last night - D'Artagnan, oyster, beefsteak, Richard II/second city derby, Titian, 2nd Amendment, Beaverbrook, Goliath, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, orbit, Cossacks
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
I was the opposite. How can I answer the question if you've answered it before it's finished? There should be an interruption penalty on all questions. That'd settle Kohn's hash for him.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
too clever by half
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:20 (three years ago) link
As evidenced by thread i do tend to have a low threshold of annoyance for precocious uc captains but what can i say, the more prickish paxman gets the more a direct challenger is to be welcomed maybe
― scampsite (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:28 (three years ago) link
I don't have time to figure out if I concede fictional points due to contestants' interruptions. In last night's episode I just found the subjects were things I didn't know much about.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:39 (three years ago) link
i got Herschel, which they didn't (although couldn't remember her forenames) - one of the components at work is called herschel.
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
29 correct last night.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
dang, beats my 24.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 12:00 (three years ago) link
Herschel was the only one where I kicked myself afterwards.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link
weird to see how some of the most iconic voices of teh 20th century are slipping into obscurity or is that overkill, certainly recognised a couple of those. though whoever did get Aretha rapidly
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
24 / 29 is good going especially this late in the game. i was distracted last night (css formatting seneca's troades for my ereader...) and only remember a few questions. the art mirrors, johnny cash, 5+9 in binary, the le corbusier round (fail)...
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
Lol more like Clownedgarden
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 February 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
Fun Madness facts there.
― ledge, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
Finding it v tough going tonight after doing well at mastermind and OC
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
Have been wondering what is up with Parkinson's eyes since the start and maybe previously. Thought it might be contact lenses now see she has glasses on.Seemed to be popping eyes or something.
― Stevolende, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
Crowther is proper brilliant
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
Very spooky shit getting Tristram Shandy half a dozen questions before it was asked
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
Yeah
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Durham were just knocked out early here i dont think theyre a bad team tbh
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
some really confusing starter questions.
― ledge, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah! Poorly worded or very open to interpretation
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 22 February 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
21 right tonight, best showing yet. Off to a flyer with the author of 'At Swim Two Birds'.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Durham should have done better with the location of the waterfalls, it's in their back yard.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
John Husston?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 February 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
Yes, Flann O'Brien as the first part of the first question was a nice gift.
22 correct answers here tonight including Padua, Don Quixote, Stanford, Solnit, T Shandy, The Colour Purple, Debussy, F L Woman, Hardy, Hoar-frost (a term from Old English poetry I've just been reading), H Tubman, Hadron, Scylla & Charybdis, Reagan, Eisenhower.
Funniest moment when the answer was Rebecca Solnit author of 'men explain things to me' and female contestant Parkinson, from the village I am currently in, wanting to know the answer, cheerfully said to the other, male contestants: 'Men, explain things to me!'.
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 February 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
Did I miss an explanation as to why she suddenly put her specs on .
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
sad to see Parkinson go. She's probably my favourite contestant this year.
13 this week - Pretoria, Don Quixote, Stanford, apples, The Cob, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, electron and positron, hadron, Scylla & Charybdis, Wensleydale, volcanic eruptions, Eisenhower.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
"Please men, explain to me" is genuinely the funniest aside from a #UniversityChallenge captain to her all male teammates that I have ever heard as she tries to remember the name of the author of 'Men Explain Things to Me.' I doff my cap to Durham, Parkinson. pic.twitter.com/LmR61phkdt— Charles Dundas (@cdundas) February 22, 2021
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link
i got 63 (333 in base 4, which is (16+4+1)*3) and harmonics and mode. basically all the maths questions.
and french lieutenant's woman too, from the movie posters.
12 total.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
first time i've seen two complete wall fails in OC.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
Thought they were very tough walls but i never, never crack the first one so...?
I would blitz the final round unchallenged tho
― scampsite (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
We pause the wall (I think I've said this before) so we can have a go at it before the teams distract us. We did a lot better than they did last night, in that I think we put together at least two groups on each wall.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
yeah, but it's hard to emulate the actual walls because you don't get to cycle through options and eliminate stuff.
they gave up on the helicopters (maybe more) too easily.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that was just weird. They just seemed to panic.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
I mean, we rarely nail them all, but we are usually happy enough to have identified the four groups, even if (as you say) we have no mechanism for ensuring we've put everything in the right group.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
i got 63
Thought at first you meant you got 63 questions correct! Was thinking "wow, koogs is a quiz monster!"
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link