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

foe Iris Murdoch. I got as far as "alzheimers! black prince!" and lau finished it off. so I guess that's an assist right?

I got 'curmudgeon'

The art styles / cheeses thing was impressive

I take it Newcastle lost? I had to step out..

They did yeah, good game tho.

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.

There was a haunted air to Newcastle last night. The answers just weren't coming

And seeing as how they came the closest to beating the other finalist team (who stormed it last week), then hey ho.

Yeah the questions are too hard at this point, although they seem to be doing more 'concept' type questions which I quite enjoy even if I'm stumped. 'British composer' will always be Benjamin Britten tho

This year's Grand Final

the contortions involved in making more questions about women are frankly a bit silly seeing as they then have to make it about eg the geography involved and drop a large hint

best UC in years for likeable teams

also im killing this i may actually be winning

McKeown won that

Merton a bunch of bottlers in the end

newcastle captain, mckeown and woodland the series standouts

peplow shat it. check him for a spurs jersey underneath

questions will be asked about Woodland's ability to do it on the biggest stage

she had them....55 to nil ahead, no?

no one's doubting the raw talent, but the best players - yer Lovedays, yer Trimbles - have the moral courage to stand up and be counted when the questions aren't going their way

where are the contests filmed and what was the weather like

Salford, so there's a fairly high chance it's raining at any given time

Salford in February, I'd say a high chance of the kind of weather that'd scare yer classy continental libero type.

good british core to each finalist team this year trevor

oxbridge final, bah. democratise this competition and end oxbridge domination now.

Love it when there's a Boutros Boutros Ghali answer; must be some long-lost Fast Show chuckles still lurking in my brain.
Mckeown is brilliant

Why didn't any of you tell me this was back

I didn't know!

what

its bloody july

madness

acoustic metamaterials yo

I wondered what benthic meant after reading it in that Stewart Lee article. Not enough to look it up but enough to wait until it's an answer on UC

These were clearly never Teenage Dirt bags.

lol big man Paxo can't pronounce "Nicomachean"

yin is a powerful man but the eau gorsh of him is a bit much

Spagnum.

Captcha also pronounced oddly by one of the contestants. Had obviously only ever seen it written down and missed the pun.

Never heard of Iron Maiden. Kids today, huh?

paxo not even familiar with modus ponens v tollens, smh

"you're a nice team"

Ugh patronising Paxman on top form tonight.

That New York kid was really something this round.

Apparently he's quite the star on the quiz circuit. Total demolition, he's going to take some beating.

Enjoyed twirly moustache dude not knowing Nathan Barley.

'bwa ha ha ha no"

lol SOAS

bonuses on 1997 AND Chris Morris, you are really spoiling us (although I didn't get the Mel C one)

New York guy basically ruining it for everyone else >:(

Love this show. I don’t always get everything that’s going on (being Dutch ;) but it’s almost always fun to watch. Being Dutch allowed for an LOL @ SOAS as that’s the dutch acronym for STDS.

I saw an amazing grunge era show in SOAS student's union. MUdhoney, Nirvana, Napalm Death and I think at l;east one other band. people improvising on stage diving incorporating the pipe that runs down the ceiling.
Mark Arm going in crowd surfing and reappearing without his microphone which he needs tyo ask the crowd to return.

Shame the team from there 30 years later didn't really get a chance to start in Monday's show.

"The Beach Boys?"

anyway, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45217265

"University Challenge duo Monkman and Seagull get TV show"

That pronunciation of Beach Boys was the highlight of the night.

kill granet with rocks

Jack Pollock you say?

Terrifying statues thread also v useful tonight.

Jack Pollock was in a rival team at our usual pub quiz yesterday. There were like six of them and two of us. We won. Clearly just getting him used to the losing feeling before having to watch himself back on the telly.

Durham were pretty good all round. Nice to see a good team who are all pretty good after the usual one-man-band teams that get all the media attention.

The guy on the winning team looked like a character from rebel without a cause, leather jacket, hair greased back, collar turned up, stiletto in pocket. Seemed useful though.

Tonight I surprised myself with my anti-coagulant knowledge.

that guy in the brown fleece?
Yeah this week much more likeable than the self-congratulatory cleverclogs of last week

the white carrot things