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I got 11 tonight. Woo!

I thought I did quite well too tonight.   Music round was easy enough, did OK on the county sign round, couple of the pictures and a few others.

I'm filled with such a perverse sense of happiness whenever Jeremy Paxman uses the word popular and an unconquerable sadness when, as is more common, he instead says classical.


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Is this some in joke? I have seen 3 people post their university challenge scores tonight.

Haha! Really?


I know Nerve-ana and I posted them somewhere before but I couldn't remember where.

I got the Bay City Rollers, two of the cloud questions, the plimsoll line and seven others that I can't remember atm.

 

Prism.

Yuh, I also got 11. Unfortunately nirvana only managed 9 in our type-off, so is now 1-0 down on the cereal.

Our scores extremely depressed by needing to type them before they speak them. I got 39 right by normal measures.

Fuck right off.

Hahaha..its called an education son..parp  :)

I don't even know if Im intelligent enough to turn the t.v onto bbc 2.

Damn you - had to watch it now that you posted that.

Seems to have been a particularly soft week. I would say that the road signs, in particular, were too easy for UC.

11, which is a lot more than normal, though I had an unfair advantage with the Dublin one.

i'm getting 9-11 questions right per episode in this new series

don't remember getting anywhere near that previously

seems to me that the questions are a bit more populist (more recent music, some sport etc) and pssobily they've been dumbed down a bit?

get tremendously frustrated when intelligent captains don't listen to the question and answer "a room with a view" and not E M Forster too! several examples of this last night

Also 'U2' when he clearly asked for the singer.

I don't think the questions have been dumbed down all that much (a lot of them are still 'stuff you should know if you're doing a physics/maths/history/etc degree') but there have been a few more populist ones thrown in (mostly so Paxo can sneer at them).

It was also lovely that they let Kate Middleton play for Newcastle last night.

Irritating that they keep blurting their answer out over the sound of their own buzzer as well.

Got about 6/7 last night. Me and the missus shouting Craig David in unison after 1 second being the highlight.

Got the Swan Lake one but did answer Swan Lake to the previous two questions as well so I guess that devalues that answer.

Lol. I get the odd Beethoven correct using that method.

I did that as well, except I couldn't help saying 'Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaig David'

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I quoted the wrong post. I actually mean the post quoted below. i.e. if it's a composer round and I don't know the answer I shout out the same name every time.

My stock answer poet is Wordworth and my painter is Monet.

I tend to alternate between Manet and Monet.

This lot were brilliant in the first episode:-

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Powell was so extravagant, had us in fits just saying his name. Woods had that look on her face the whole game - the cat that got the cream. Different walks of life these people, got nothing like that at Portsmouth Uni...

You say that. The one on the left is Tom Langley.

Tonight at 8pm.

BTOBS.

I would not necessarily say they're mutually exclusive. 

Manchester have got no chance.

players from oldham and bolton.....complete no no on accent and check shirt grounds

de Lotbiniere......

discuss.

Joly is part of the surname too.

7  :(

10

Cole of York was excellent. good team that

Question setters include Hugh Binnie

we are proper university challenge geeks here - We have an official scorebook and pen and scores are allocated as per the show with 10 for a starter and 5 for a bonus, playing against each other.  Usually average 60-80 points an episode, my record is 165 8)

Miserable result, confused The Pet Shop Boys with Daft Punk. Barely troubled the scorers after that.

We need that translating into unique, got it before anyone else including other contestants, friends & family answers.

Got 15; massively helped by the sweeteners, octahedral crystals, human anatomy questions (spot the Science teacher!) and luck boxing the American state.

What about Britt Eklund btw!

Got the islets of Langerhans and Britt Ekland ones. Was disappointed to fail on the sweeteners.

Independent might be the stupidest answer ever given on University Challenge.


...and spell effervescent. When did the question setter from Bullseye join?

Missed it. I'll have to do on demand later.


BTW- Vicky Coren is going to have someones eye out.

if you were going on UC would you wear a leather vest?

what about a christmas cardigan?

see tonight's team Kings Cambridge, which has both side by side

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I assume that Phil Oakey is currently trending on Twitter

We all love seeing Kings getting whooped.

Shah. Such a clown.

3-0. Just sayin.

   It was Ocober 1974. At home I was watching University Challenge on Yorkshire TV with my parents before heading off to Lancaster University the next day. I was about to start as a fresher.As usual I scored in the region between 2 and 3 ( questions were harder in those days :-) )
   I arrived all bushy tailed and excited at my new home for three years. No one from my family had never been to University and it was all very strange. A large 60's campus university on the edge of the Lake District. Whether it was the first day or the next I found myself walking past a packed 'JCR' room with standing room only as University Challenge was about to start on what was probably a black and white TV. Lancaster was in Granada TV land and to my amazement the programme was a repeat of what had been shown earlier at home in Yorkshire.As Bamber Gascoigne started the questions I quickly realised that although in most cases I didn't even understand the question I could easily 'recall' the answers from the previous night. I held my counsel for a few minutes but then couldn't resist. After each question I quietly answered correctly. Repeatedly. A small circle started to look at me and I smiled, absolutely loving the immediate status of the cleverest Fresher the college had ever seen. It was hilarious and I slipped out of the room having correctly answered about 40 questions. I blanked a few to avoid suspicion. That was the academic highlight of my University education although the 3 years were amongst the happiest of my life.
Even to this day I cannot watch University Challenge without thinking of my 25 minutes of fame.

I did a similar stunt with Brain of Britain on Radio 4 many years ago, back when Robert Robinson was the Presenter.

It was broadcast one evening, & then repeated at lunchtime the next day.   

I was wooing a young lady at the time, quite a refined lady actually - she was into Shakespeare & all that shite - so as the questions were being asked, I was replying to every one, one after the other. She was mightily impressed.     

And then - how do these two things happen? - I transposed two answers. She never noticed when I transposed the first of course, but after the second one the game was up.
                       
Robert Robinson, oh how I miss him. Proper hairdo, too.

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Just watched it on Sky +

Sigh! Only 5 correct this week. I blame Vinny.

Only Connect is as good as ever but the main interesting point is will Victoria have given birth by the time recording of this series finished!?

Sigh..

7 this week. Started well but speed of recall let me down later. Should have has a dozen.

What time does it start?

Why does the Captain sit in seat three when if he sat at either end he wouldn't have to swivel his head left and right all night?

"I mean biochemistry is really dull"

Bet the team of medics next door loved that.

there was an old boys/celebrity edition on last night, and i found myself googling some of the alumni i was watching

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wished i hadn't!

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John Nunn isn't bad at maths, albeit has not won a Fields Medal.

He's a passionate astronomer, when he isn't dominating World Chess Problem Solving competitions, despite being 60 now. He was ninth in the world in chess at his peak.

He also answered far more questions last night :)