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

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?

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....

Was imo a tough one vs recent months

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.

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

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 ;)

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.

I got that one too. And I was probably as smug.

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 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

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.

September 1990. I think I heard the songs a few months later.

i feel old. "what does VCR stand for?" now qualifies as a question on mastermind. moreso when they don't know the answer.

Kohn is pretty unlikable, but he was on fire tonight.

13 tonight on UC:
William Blake, Isaiah, William IV, Kohinoor/Kohl, Kant, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Uranus, Iceland, Albrecht Durer, Goya, Pakistan, Copper, Romania

i wasn't paying attention at all yesterday but another of the Ko... questions seemed quite easy, unless I'm thinking of the koh i noor one (it seemed unfamiliar to the captain but maybe she doesn't like Indian food). couldn't remember Durer's first name for a moment, but probably didn't need it.

Koala/Koan ?

ah, yes, that was it.

the kohinoor restaurant in tewkesbury appears to have closed.

Music round, you can see paxo's Q&A card!

16 tonight - JMW Turner, 1345, 1789, Lovecraft, Chennai, Jeddah, Mimas, The Kiss, chit & chat, cough & cough, a & I, hope, Brunei, The Gambia, Brazil, Merchant of Venice.

Kicking myself: Malacca (considering I've been there!) and sitka.

*Chough* & cough!

you got Lovecraft but not MR James?

started well on OC knowing that Bayer lost the heroin trademark (and aspirin, which is why it's now got a small a) after the war but that and famous tony's was pretty much it.

Yep. I am not really familiar with MR James, koogs. It's a name that people on here have banded around from time to time but I've never checked out.

OC tonight was the hardest I've known it to be. Not that that's saying much.

I'd happily do 3-film-mashups on the missing vowels round all day

OC tonight was the hardest I've known it to be. Not that that's saying much.

I feel like I have a memory of a wall in a final one year that was nothing but the letter i in various cases. There may have been some 1s in there as well.

not bad tonight - 19!

Dr. Faustus, Troilus & Cressida/Cressida Dick*, King John/John Smith, Twelfth Night/Night of the Living Dead, impressionism, cubism, Main, Ambrosia, Dogme 95, Roberta Flack, Plovdiv, James Baldwin, Keith Haring, Lysander, raven, Tarka the Otter, sable, stoat, poppy.

* inadvertently topical answer!

TV Highlight of the Weeeeeeek #UniversityChallenge pic.twitter.com/ZIrcoTBSil

— Ariadne Griffin 🦋 (@Ariadne_Griffin) March 22, 2021

That were good. Rout's fairly blossomed on the show!

I got 19 or 20, a marked improvement on the last few weeks. And the OC magic square.

I don't think I've ever wanted a team to lose more than Warwick, heartbreakingly

Yeah, even with the interrupting cow, I really wanted Imperial to beat them. I always want a more diverse team who look like they're having fun to beat a team of four white blokes who look like they've been forced to do this to make themselves look more human on their CVs, basically. Oh well.

hate paxman of course but enjoyed "no you're wrong" to one of last night's interruptions

IMperial female team member had a really illuminating smile so wanted tehm to win even more so.
Shame they didn't keep going how they started.
THought they might and yeah would have far preferred them winning to Rout et al

Am I the only one who thought the final Only Connect walls were easier than usual? Because you'll instantly realise they're all going to be abbreviations, homophones or symbols. I think the only one I didn't get was the comedians.

was not expecting balliol to get whooped so thoroughly geez

bad luck dungarees

not the outfit you'd want to have chosen to take a beating like that

Did not understand that outfit on any level

Yes, when dungaree man said what he was doing now I immediately thought "O RLY? Thought you were going to say kids' TV presenter".

Was not expecting Balliol to take such a drubbing.

There's probably a mnemonic for recalling the order of the Chinese dynasties. It comes up a lot.

Anyway, I got 12: Turandot, Chancellor, metathesis, dragon, Chemnitz & Karl Marx Stadt, Flaming Lips, plutonium & cerium, Qatar, The Scarlet Letter, Starsbourg, Frankfurt, Anthony Powell.

Magdalene are very strong on science and maths, that often seems to win out in the long run

the entire 'artists that do their own artwork' round was easy, i thought (but are the only ones i remember getting)