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

I know I get told off for this, but I would definitely have buzzed for the max five points on "Cabaret + 'Maybe This Time'"

I got that too. And it's not that they were asked to create those songs, it's that you have to have at least one new song to qualify for the Oscar for Best Original Soundtrack.

That atomic number question is the worst thing I've ever seen on Only Connect And that includes seeing my own stupid face.

ha, yeah, was not impressed with that!

That question, or my stupid face?

xD

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not the best week for me - 17 only.
karyatids, Titan, San, Timbuktu, UNICEF, Aaron Copland, Venus, methane, hallelujah, ululate, ungulate, Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, eyelid, ferns, Ursula le Guin, salt.

ululate isn't pronounced the way I've been reading it, it turns out.

i got gaugin as a blurted out guess (the picture of Rembrandt had to be easiest question of the day) and the other two sci fi authors (Rendezvous with Rama!)

I got that L/R one (after pausing it a teeny bit)!

Yeah, I got it on the last clue. The walls were the kind of shit they pull in the final. And annoyingly I spotted The Trip after two but had no idea whose footsteps they were traipsing around in series one.

I missed tonight because I was out, but just wondering - should I add Only Connect to the title of this thread? It seems to be the place to talk about it, might be worth doing to help searches?

I would like that, for sure.

The walls were the kind of shit they pull in the final.

We did pretty well on the walls, considering they were tkostpitf. I was especially pleased with myself for getting the word one on the second wall and then have VCM note that it was a particularly tricky word one.

emil.y - that would be good!
I got the STA ones straight off, which tipped me off to the second wall ones.

I spotted The Trip after two but had no idea whose footsteps they were traipsing around in series one.

Had Wordsworth, forgot Coleridge. Also it was pretty specifically the Lake District I thought.

UC was difficult.

I'll admit, I've parted ways with UC for the rest of the series. The questions get too boring for me at this point (ie the music ones are more opera/ classical) and I want to get on and watch Succession on Monday nights! I'll be back on board for the Christmas ones. maybe the final.

I think I got about four right last night, but yes, I start to tune out halfway through because it's just too hard for me.

> should I add Only Connect to the title of this thread?

yeah it's needed this for while. in fact this is now the de facto bbc quiz show thread, not limited to those two even. at least it's easy to search for because it's two exact words, no quote marks even.

Btw, if any of you fancy a crack at doing Only Connect, I do this Online Quiz League variant which is uniformly excellent, has really good hosts and writers. I understand the cost might be a bit off-putting, but it's less than a fiver per person per week even if you only have a three-person squad and it's dead good.

https://quizcentral.net/connections/coql/register

Here's a video featuring me (and Will Swygart, occasionally of this parish) against a team featuring Jenny Ryan off of the Chase and one of her teammates from actual OC champs The Gamblers. There are quite a few matches up on the YouTube channel for viewing, if you fancy some extra OC-type viewing without actually playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKE5QI3BPJ0

https://quizcentral.net/connections/coql/register

Cheers, Ailsa. will watch that later!

Got 20 this week - Kamala Harris, rhizome, Italian, Malay, E=mc^2, Messien, 1923, 1989, Svalbard, Adidas & Puma, tungsten, theodolite, Uganda, John Ford, dabbling, calcium and fluorine, PG Wodehouse, Oceania, B, National Maritime Museum.

made the exact same mistakes as Birmingham - Glass for Riley and goosander for merganser!

My Brummie bangers with another beatdown. They still haven't played a good team, I think.

Thanks, emil.y!

i'm the american guy who watches only connect so i will check out that connections quiz

ha, did a search for university challenge and glossed over the first result because it was too long

anyway, celeb uc is more my level. pleasant change from the latter rounds of the proper version. but i don't see why knowing what a Nintendo Gameboy looks like should be "shameful".

always funny randomly coming across people here commenting on Twitter about such things. don't really know why I'm surprised. at least it was about Benny hill and not like the time i saw ex-colleague bitching about my current employer.

the "fourteen" on OC was more bullshit btw

lol I totally got that one
therefore I think it is a good and clever clue

I watched Mastermind and wondered what te maximum score per round would be. Was thinking 28 combined was really good but maybe wasn't as high s it could be.
Do wonder to what extent the speed with which a presenter asks the questions affected the potential score.

But good that people have managed to get over their nerves to such an extent that they can remember correct answers in front of an audience both studio and beyond.

I think 36 asa combined round score was among the highest

I got 28 when I was on, fluffed 3 of the 13 specialist Subject ones and I think 2 of 20 general knowledge (maybe 3 of 30, have never watched it back) so max I could have got was 33 or 34, and I was answering as quickly as I could to try and make Humphrys ask them faster.

3 of 21. Yes I am good at the clever stuff like adding 1 to 20.

The record is 41 but that was back in Magnusson days with no nonsensically long questions

For those who like quizzes, the film quiz in the Irish Times is always worth a go. Their film critic is a keen quizzer.

1st time I've known someone on the Christmas graduate specials personally (Aasmah, who was in my hall at Bristol).

Bristol started strongly, shame they were pipped by King's Cambridge at the end.

Got 19: stollen, devil's advocate, Do It Do It Again*, St. Petersburg, Madrid & Johannesburg, Zurich, May-, Blackpool, Leicester City, Handel, Berlioz, Haydn, Avignon, Fairport Convention, David Bowie, Fanny Craddock, Madhur Jaffrey, Plato, Vit. K.

* Started singing it as soon as Raffaela Carra was mentioned!

So much faffing about and conferring and looking baffled about having to know stuff on these specials.

Yeah that struck me, only caught the end of this evenings but jeremy has lost a seconds waspishness imo

Don't like the way they do the two-stage introductions, with Paxman saying what each person does, then the team members saying who they are afterwards. I feel that they could dispense with the first part.

Paxo was diagnosed with Parkinson's a while back, this is the first few shows where he's really seemed to have slowed down.

Jesus, that LSE team. Could the production crew not maybe remind the Christmas teams that this is a television programme, not a pub quiz? I don't care that you're all having a great laugh.

I mean, obviously I don't want it to be robotic and unfun. You know what I mean. There's a happy medium.

Was that mainly Robert Elms who was like a scene figure so maybe he felt it was expected of him.

Not sure i would have been able to put a face to Soweto Kinch before last night but do think I knew the name.

lol at john robins' mohican

she seemed so sure at the elements answers but they were all RONG.

first of 4 christmas Only Connects on at 8 (not series-linked to the current series, mind). followed by a continuation of xmas UniChall (as nobody calls it)

the fuckin' FROMAGES q was another THIRTEEN and it got me again

and it spelt FROBMAGES unless you knew to discount one capitalised letter.

Looked for ages like nobody was going to get to triple figures.
I think I had gone into the kitchen section of my front room when that fromage thing was on so didn't see excess letters.
Bad amount of passes going on too.

Singapore Sling was my first 5 pointer in awhile

i got FROMAGE at least, assuming the singular would be acceptable, didn't think about making it plural.

That FROMAGES thing was bullshit (I got it on the last clue because I've got wise to that shit, but bear in mind these teams wouldn't have seen the recent run of those types of questions) And wow those were some bad teams on UC.

Hacker and Dodge T Dog on pointless celebs later. i am curious how they will do this.

^ they were stood behind a crate. made it to the head-to-head. beaten by mrs mcclusky and the scouse kid from grange hill.

16 on celeb UC is quite poor, i think. large runs of questions i had no clue about. mary magdelene, ginger rogers, ginger baker, nougat, noisette, aleph, rnli, orange county, victoria wood, tonya harding, skateboarding, bmx park, chameleon, toy poodle, crossby, woodpecker

I got nearly all the ones from that list and almost nothing else.
And I got fromages! I was feeling very smug, let me tell you. I'm really enjoying the themed OCs. The teams seem to be having a lot of fun while still playing properly.