When Maloney gets one right, Howe sarcastically repeats his answer to Tindall.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 January 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
I got all the file compression questions right. Just saying.
lz is something I associate with the Amiga, was never really popular on Windows (which favoured PKZIP) or Linux (gzip)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 06:29 (six years ago) link
Can we talk about why the BBC moved Only Connect to the earlier slot?
I mean, OC is fine (I guess), but it's clearly the optional digestif not the first course
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
Victoria Coren is also fine (I guess) but her patter is reaching Kaufmanesque levels of punchlinelessness
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
I kind of enjoy that. I choose to see it as schtick rather than incompetence
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
it's very much a deliberate production choice
i agree it's wrong bumping UC tho, I'm not that fussed about watching OC nowadays
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
True - it often feels like a "how far can I push this" joke with herself. I don't mind it, but my partner hates it, I can feel her teeth gnashing every time Coren does a routine.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah I mean you could see that
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
We're always watching OC on catchup anyway so I just fast forward past VC's ramblings. Can you imagine the smugbucket conversations she and Mitchell must have at home?
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Find woodland painful
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 22 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
has my brain shrunk or have the questions gotten dead hard?
― kinder, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
There were very few gimmes tonight imo
NB doesn't mean yr brain hasn't shrunk ianad
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
My scoring system is: 2 points for correct, double if you get it and nobody on the show does, and 1 point if you give the same wrong answer as a contestant.
This week, I scored one point (Purcell)
― Mark G, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Ah now I'd have been up on double figures at least under yr system
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
I knew 100 points' worth of questions.
I liked the name Woodland.
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Its a leveller, basically (xpost)
― Mark G, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
I was forced to take a two-term long module on Alice Walker at university, so I finally had some closure on that trauma tonight (although they were all very easy questions).
I liked Woodland, cosplaying as an early 90s indie nerd
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Chemistry is bullshit and chemistry questions are bullshit
Lol at the Presbyterian getting mad excited at the old testament tho
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
Here now.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link
Not like a politics student to have no general knowledge and no leadership skills
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
Was that Carson?
Because both captains were bad but Carson was a real dick to his team
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Mistin i think? the lad from Emmanuel. the other one was probably bad too, i was half asleep.
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Both shite
― DUMPKINS! (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
let's just agree they're all bad at this stage
― Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Guys, Carson is a mate of mine, and he's not a dick. And he was always good at saying to his team mates when they got something right, unlike Emmanuel dude. He's a bit intense, I'll give him that.
Got the feeling Stone from Edinburgh didn't really want to be there, there was a lot of eye-rolling whenever anything vaguely academic came up (so, like, all of it)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 07:25 (six years ago) link
happy to be corrected by better knowledge
Besides which, that was a curiously cagey lowscoring affair. Is there a theory or study as to when or why this happens
― DUMPKINS! (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 08:24 (six years ago) link
I think nerves may play a part, especially after a few wrong interruptions?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
my wife knows carson as well appararently
glasgow's a small world
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
don't get calling carson an arsehole at all. seemed really supportive... ? like in a remarkable way?
― belcalis almanzar (||||||||), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
First in to mention there was a reference to ROCKISM in today's University Challenge.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 19 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
the way that captain talks to the mic is reeeeeeeeeeeally annoying
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
No, Stairway
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
Is Carson the nicest captain? He always compliments his teammate for good answers..
― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
I think he's great. There was a bit of name-calling upthread, but I've played quizzes with him a few times and he's super nice and really good at (1) deferring to people who know stuff he doesn't and (2) recognising the contributions of team-mates.
― ailsa, Monday, 26 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
I was on a TV quiz when I was a kid back in 1975. Thank god there wasn't 'social media' back then, I'd be in no doubt what 'the world' thought of me..
― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
The question about the earth being a basketball, how were you meant to work that out quickly?
Reminds me of the binary arithmetic questions a few years ago which meant having to convert two longish binary numbers to decimal and the sum back into binary
― koogs, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link
I hadn't seen UC for ages, but watched last night and thought this. They really played as a team, and they seemed willing to just say things without making each other feel like crap.
Also I have never seen a team get so many opera questions right before.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:15 (six years ago) link
damn, that was an annihilation
― Number None, Monday, 9 April 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
The winning team look like the villains in an American college comedy.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 April 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
Paxo was in full "we are not worthy" mode, for sure.
Funnily enough, he was running the "Have I got" show like a man driving an automatic car, badly. But entertaining thanks to the other guests...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 11:02 (six years ago) link
Insert a "last night, as well" somewhere in that last sentence, tky.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
He was very poor on HIGNFY? !
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
Watched UC on iPlayer. Managed 115 points' worth.
Tom Jones (novel), The Alchemist, Brazil (country), Independence Day (date), Iris Murdoch, Thomas Gray (elegy), Dave Brubeck, Nocturnes (title), Stein / Pound / Picasso (pictures), et al.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
foe Iris Murdoch. I got as far as "alzheimers! black prince!" and lau finished it off. so I guess that's an assist right?
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
I got 'curmudgeon'
― kinder, Thursday, 12 April 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
The art styles / cheeses thing was impressive
― koogs, Thursday, 12 April 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
I take it Newcastle lost? I had to step out..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
They did yeah, good game tho.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
questions get nearly impossible in the semis, it's not nearly as fun to play along. i did dredge Avogadro out of the depths of my memory though.
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
There was a haunted air to Newcastle last night. The answers just weren't coming
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link