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

Look I'm not saying that question set was a plant but....

lol Titus Andronicus, the band, got a question!

Bruce Willis?

He was sat next to the bloke from Future Islands

How did they miss the German physicist/1905/photoelectric effect question?

too easy, self doubt

how did they miss that the second question after 'the lady's not for burning' would also include 'burning'? I don't (didn't) know what a present participle is and I still figured it out.

kids these days

This jumping lad tho

That was a bit of a thrashing. Serves them right for thinking Cardigan is in Scotland.

Really impressive right hand side of a team alright

And jumpy guy

I can't stand ostentatious conferrers

Bit dull this week

Can someone explain to me the nominate

I mean it's not a thing is it

Yet some captains do it. Usually odious ones. Is it a hospital pass for answers they don't fancy?

I think it's usually used for things they can't pronounce or are frightened they've misheard.

yup

occasionally a celebrity they're too embarrassed to admit they've heard of

Lackspittle pass

Ha, yeah "nominate Smith" "is it Harry Styles?"

*Paxo sneer* "yes, but why on earth would anyone know that?"

*throws card down on desk*

"Glauron, I believe."
"Nominate Trimble."
".....Glauron."

https://youtu.be/K5fKP05uF8M?t=21m54s

Glaurung, rather

Normally I'm sat there on a Monday night shouting artist names or Dickens characters at the screen as the teams struggle. Yesterday it was types of plastic, which made a nice change.

PVC! PVC!

Ah, back to those punk days..

Questions easy again obv

MacDougall can fuck off for a start

Golly these questions are o level

Wear a grey polo neck and doesn't know his philosophy

Fraud

can't believe "From Socrates On Down" wasn't it

Haha, aye, that was good. Yet again, randomly-ish shouting "Delacroix" at a painting pays off for me though.

<3 delacroix

Salter such a prick

The way McDaid just pulled Amy Schumer out of thin air was beautiful

Aw bless Jackson having a sulk

they said 'asterix' and laughed but i only knew it was vercingetorix from reading asterix.

Otm ledge

Otm

Jackson another one wanted a shoeing tbh

That Ulster team is so genial and chill. Makes me want to go there and get a PhD in carpets or w/e

nick cave and kylie minogue.

So true

Classic contest tbf

Celebrity version

Theroux is being a real prick about being captain and only him being allowed answer

wait what when was this

They're repeating some old celeb ones on bbc4

Ya

smh on that Frankenstein starter

a child would watch a Hammer film on Channel 4

haha otm

already knew Will Hutton was a disgusting savage but he proved it on this last night

bruce dickinson and tony james have been on the last couple of xmas episodes. tony james didn't recognise 12xu by wire. fail...

Bruce Dickinson is a v cultured man and so expressive! Loved him kicking himself for failing to recognize Fine Young Cannibals.

bd knew nietzsche, even if he couldn't spell it*. the others just had blank looks even after he'd said it out loud.

* me neither

one of them tried to do bantz about it too, very bad form

Yeah, I couldn't spell Nietzsche out loud under any sort of pressure. But fair fucks to him for having a bash at it. Yesterday's lot were v poor. Iwan Thomas really would turn up to the opening of an envelope - I'm sure if he tries enough celeb guest spots on stuff he'll find something he's good at eventually (it's not dancing or cooking or surviving on an island or being on Countdown or quizzing).