yeah, I was wondering whether the guy team was actually really good at missing vowels or if the other team was playing safe with such a huge lead.
― braised cod, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 09:14 (two years ago) link
i do a simiar job to them, based on their team name, and i'd also expect to catch up in the missing words round. not really different (in terms of points available) to being good at walls.
(oh, that said, you don't get docked points for getting the wall wrong. and you can stab at random things and luck upon answers. plus you get a second go at connections you didn't find. maybe it is completely different!)
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 09:30 (two years ago) link
I thought the team storming the mssngvwls round fell short by 1 point?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link
they did, but they were behind 10 points before the final round so it was close.
― braised cod, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 09:40 (two years ago) link
And I knew they were going to storm the missing vowels, too, because they were so far behind that I thought "there's no way this team should have made it past the auditions. They must be really good at the missing vowels."
― trishyb, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
LOL the folk horror segment has been doing the rounds on various interested Facebook groups that I belong to. A lot of the discussion has been about if Blood on Satan's Claw should have a definite article, as Paxman favoured.
The thing about folk horror from the 60s and 70s is, there are only about three or four movies that remotely quality as such, so you could've guessed without seeing the pics - Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan's Claw, The Wicker Man (to be fair, UC did pick a not entirely obvious - in fact slightly misleading - still from the last one).
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
Argument being tbf that if hadnt come up already you could safely pick is as the third option with yr eyes closed id say
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
(xpost true, I nearly didn't say "Wicker Man" at the end)
― Mark G, Friday, 20 August 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
After “west end girls” and “integral” I was on alert for some sort of covert pet shop boys song title theme
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 21 August 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Really enjoying these teams
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
Mays might be a bit of a cunt tho
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
This is high qual stuff from all concerned
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
Paxman is acting up a bit mind
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
George looks like scotty parker imo
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Yes, good teams.
Managed 22 last night: Longfellow, Principia Mathematica, railway stations, collie, Poland, Turkey, turtle dove, kittiwake, woodcock, Colombia, Fantasia, Smetana, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, axon, axiom, Mississippi, faro, cribbage, bouncing bomb, Tyne, Mary Rose, helium.
That ABBA question on OC - has there every been one of those step-by-step links where one of the steps is (none) before???
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 09:03 (two years ago) link
fuck periodic table maths
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 10:50 (two years ago) link
Periodic table maths is indeed annoying! Daresay I would've worked them out but certainly not in the time available.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 11:31 (two years ago) link
Yesterday's episode? OK, I'll put this here...
Never meant to make your daughter cry. pic.twitter.com/mVrMgOT30B— Paul Sinha (@paulsinha) September 13, 2021
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link
Oh yes
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
That was a great match -- so close! They really gave the Central Asian expert free rein setting the questions tho.
Scott was annoying, but the rest of his team were very nice. Good to see a 3:1 female:male ratio too. St. Catz Cambridge may well make it to the final.
21 for me: N. Macedonia, Pevsner, it, tits, raven, puffin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 37 & 73, 17 & 71, 13 & 31, Fitz, Irish Free State, Donna Summer, Chic, Thelma Houston, Gloria Gaynor, Nietzsche, foliate(d), Krebs, B12, Ivory Coast.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
We really liked the Catz team; captain clearly on the spectrum, and supported wonderfully well by his three female team-mates - I got a warm feeling from the kind and happy way in which they interacted.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
i got pevsner and perpendicular and one of the other silence questions, oh, inside number 9 as well as the Buffy. and one of the Jane eyres. and the kundera film (is there more than one? the joke maybe). and Godard.
can't remember any others
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
(one of Jane eyres was Ruth Wilson from Luther)
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
Giorgio Moroder's favorite disco songs was a cool set
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
I found it somewhat obnoxious that Paxman started, re both Oxbridge teams, by saying "the college is often affectionately known as [x]".
This is a long-standing phenomenon.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 09:09 (two years ago) link
condescending twat Paxman harumphing about questions on computer games made me v angry
― Neil S, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:17 (two years ago) link
Me too! Especially when they'd just had a round about football, for god's sake.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:18 (two years ago) link
he merely looked world-weary when reading out questions about Polish football
― Neil S, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:21 (two years ago) link
loads of pop culture Qs this week. loved the synth themes. Is it weird that Carew knew the Sonic answer as Sega Genesis rather than Megadrive?xp yes loved the reactions of RNCM to "football... in Poland..."
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:22 (two years ago) link
If you only know the Sega history as history or thru emulators I think it's understandable to think of Genesis
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:48 (two years ago) link
For last night's episode I started on my own, then my wife and I were a team for the 2nd half (when she walked into the room) and we got 28:
mint, High Rise, Christopher Nolan, lemming, Albrecht Dürer, Phoenix, Rhesus monkey, red blood cells, Krakowia, Legia Warsaw, cold fusion, dark matter, poikilothermic, Moliere, Dutch, Twin Peaks, Assault on Precinct 13, sun spots, Japan, Civilization, Sega Megadrive, Torquay, Scarborough, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Austria, Frankfurt, date, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Got the wrong Polish dynasty for one of those football teams and said Jagiellonia (who are in a team, but out east in Białystok) rather than Piast!
Didn't catch the answer to the Zelda question...what was it? I know I could watch again but I can't be arsed. I've only played Breath of the Wild.
Anyway, I hope the Royal Northern College of Music *do* make it back as one of the highest scoring losers as I quite liked them, Carew and Captain Chrisp especially.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
a link to the past
can't remember the 3rd of the electronic themes. oh, vangelis bladerunner. they got that before i could really hear it.
the tv adaptations were quite easy, given they were recent, but had quite generic names.
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
I assumed RNCM would get completely trounced, and they did okay, considering - but it was an unusually softball week for questions.
The disco round was slightly harder than I would've expected, though
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
Nice punny name. Cheers, koogs.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
Uzbekistan BABY
― danzig, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
agree
― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
"Dr. Glissando?"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
I got the first three letters in the German words for... before Jeremy had said any.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
i got pikmin and ico
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
Nowakowski was a clown, but I did laugh when he challenged Captain Aggarwal about Chopin: "he's Polish actually but you're the captain".
got 20 this week:
time, and, event horizon, Von Braun, Jimmy Wales, enzyme, electron, Byron, Thomas Becket, Shangri-Las, Bobby Gentry, casino, Madame Butterfly, Jackson Pollock, The Ridgeway, sch, Montana, Maine, Alaska, Aristophanes
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 7 October 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
Terrible pop culture knowledge tonight. How does no one know cabaret?
― danzig, Monday, 11 October 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Will Sussex be lowest ever scoring team?
― danzig, Monday, 11 October 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Do they always have this many Shakespeare/ olde literary questions?
― kinder, Monday, 11 October 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
Both of my brothers' Universities vying against each other or not as the case may be. Birmingham vied, not sure what Sussex did .THought they might take off but never did. Was trying to remember what the scores in previous heavily imbalanced scores were. I do remember thinking do you need all the points on a couple of occasions in i think this series previously but yeah not a good score for Sussex at all.
― Stevolende, Monday, 11 October 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
If Sussex had buzzed and answered the question Jeremy had asked when the gong went, they'd have doubled their score.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
...or lost 5 points
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 07:42 (two years ago) link
trying to think what i got last night, and it wasn't much, but more than i can remember now
tunguska (thanks x-files), 36
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
Man, that was a real ass-kicking. Go Birmingham!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
I went to Birmingham for one year of study abroad, and I think that was honestly the first time I've ever felt any Brummie school pride whatsoever.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
Apparently Sussex is joint lowest scoring team ever tied with themselves in 1971-72, says wikipedia. Also Royal Northern College of Music will be back next week or the week after in the highest scoring loser playoff. Last time they were here they managed to get to the quarterfinals.
― danzig, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link