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
Agree they moved on from promising groupings quite impatiently
― scampsite (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
Their salmon (of) knowledge was also woeful.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
right?! that's probably the first time I've yelled at the t.v. about sockeye salmon
― kinder, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
> 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
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
Welsh please be quiet
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
...whereas Mutio was on mute.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 1 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
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 :-(
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:12 (three years ago) link
Is that last week or last night?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
Ha! just realised I accidentally watched an old episode coz the one that appeared largest on iplayer wasn't the most recent one! hmmm.
now watching last night's....
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:29 (three years ago) link
Was imo a tough one vs recent months
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:35 (three years ago) link
was tough, yes! The ones with the books, authors and chemical symbols did my head in, I mean, sure, I worked out Sense & Sensibil1ity was Austen and Au = gold, but not in the time available.
got 12 - Robespierre, Ace of spades, Colombia Brazil & Argentina, Serbia Romania Hungary & Slovakia, Rafa Nadal, germanium, gallium, St Pancras, Neneh Cherry, Iggy Pop, Colin Dexter, Val McDermid.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
Heh yeah, the kind of questions where if you sent me home with them and the necessary reference material id be quite satisfied to come back in the morning with the right answers tbh
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:20 (three years ago) link
i also got 12, including the one at the buzzer. orson welles, trotsky, schiele (because of the spanish flu part of clue), somerville(sp), horseshoe, edo... too much tennis! too much geography!
(robespierre probably getable with time, the authors / elements one also)
but would probably do better watching this a second time ;)
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:25 (three years ago) link
Jesus, that tennis question seemed to go on FOREVER.
Maybe I just don't like University Challenge.
Meanwhile, on Only Connect, the husband got a five-pointer: the one about hominids. Very impressed with himself, especially since the teams didn't get it at all.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
I got that one too. And I was probably as smug.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
I scored about 22 on UC. I liked the tennis questions, and pointed them out to ILX poster Michael Jones, who naturally knew all of them.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
The questions re the stranglers "no more heroes" obv
And the music round "Red hot and blue", including the last one before the question was asked
― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 07:38 (three years ago) link
Was there an anniversary for taht Red Hot & Blue recently or something, Had the Iggy Pop/Debbie Harry pairing pop up elsewhere after not thinking about it for ages. I think even a few different times so not sure if that was all a coincidence or tied in with a date.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link
September 1990. I think I heard the songs a few months later.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link