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

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?

Depends who it is :-)

Living for kohn interrupting an increasingly unpleasant paxman

Also kohns kindly but impatient handling of rahmans windiness while answering

Think the gambling commission needs to take a look at Triggs

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

Managed 12 last night - D'Artagnan, oyster, beefsteak, Richard II/second city derby, Titian, 2nd Amendment, Beaverbrook, Goliath, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, orbit, Cossacks

Living for kohn interrupting an increasingly unpleasant paxman

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.

too clever by half

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

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.

i got Herschel, which they didn't (although couldn't remember her forenames) - one of the components at work is called herschel.

29 correct last night.

dang, beats my 24.

Herschel was the only one where I kicked myself afterwards.

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

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)...

Lol more like Clownedgarden

Fun Madness facts there.

Finding it v tough going tonight after doing well at mastermind and OC

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.

Crowther is proper brilliant

Very spooky shit getting Tristram Shandy half a dozen questions before it was asked

Yeah

Durham were just knocked out early here i dont think theyre a bad team tbh

some really confusing starter questions.

Yeah! Poorly worded or very open to interpretation

21 right tonight, best showing yet. Off to a flyer with the author of 'At Swim Two Birds'.

Durham should have done better with the location of the waterfalls, it's in their back yard.

John Husston?

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!'.

Did I miss an explanation as to why she suddenly put her specs on .

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.

"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

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.

first time i've seen two complete wall fails in OC.

Thought they were very tough walls but i never, never crack the first one so...?

I would blitz the final round unchallenged tho

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.

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.

Yeah, that was just weird. They just seemed to panic.

yeah, but it's hard to emulate the actual walls because you don't get to cycle through options and eliminate stuff.

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.

i got 63

Thought at first you meant you got 63 questions correct! Was thinking "wow, koogs is a quiz monster!"

Agree they moved on from promising groupings quite impatiently

Their salmon (of) knowledge was also woeful.

right?! that's probably the first time I've yelled at the t.v. about sockeye salmon

> 333 in base 4, which is (16+4+1)*3

have just realised that this is simpler in binary

11|11|11, or 1 less than 2^6

Welsh please be quiet

...whereas Mutio was on mute.

one of my better performances - 22:

invisibility, ether, transformation, Crick & Watson, Panama & Costa Rica, kingfisher, kookaburra, Jack London, Ford, Shepherd's Bush, Jump, Шостако́вич, cyclops, Iolanthe & Tabasco, Suomi & Cronos, duckbilled platypus, Vanuatu, red deer, George Formby, Cathy Come Home, Wind that Shakes the Barley, Tamar.

still too much French :-(

Is that last week or last night?