University Challenge Watch

I find her a reasonable host once her toe-curling introduction to the show is over.

 

Family fortunes reminds me of the classic answers:

Name something red - My Jumper
Name a bird with a long neck Naomi Campbell.

https://www.businessballs.com/amusement-stress-relief/family-fortunes-funny-wrong-answers/

 

****.

 

My all time favourite is:
"Name something or someone whose existence has never been proven"
"Hitler".

With an honourable mention to:
"Name a dangerous race"
"The Arabs".

 

NO ! I watch none of these. I've never understood why anyone would watch Bargain Hunt, yet we have a whole thread dedicated to it. One of the many bizarre things about this Forum.

You're obviously with the wrong man .

 

Every mannerism of hers grates on me. She's insufferable. Fortunately she's often outshone by her weirdo contestants.

Mark this, if she ever asked me to give a rendition of one of the songs in the clues whilst she waves her sausage forearms conductor style, I will refuse. I don't care if they disqualify us. It’s not funny or in any way entertaining.

 

Just googled it. The show moved from Thames to LWT and Thames refused to hand over the rights to the name.

 

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Along with Ravensburger .

Parker Brothers , a magazine for men who like naked men holding high quality ink pens .

 

Are you likely to be on?

United by their hatred of Gino Pozzo, they are ‘The Bedwetters’.

 

And proceeds to count in: One, two, three...
even though every song is in 4/4.

 

I like her. And I've read that she's not just a frontperson, she's a producer who does create some of the questions.

 

It still goes on the Beeb and C4 were very pissed-off when media darling Charlie Brooker took 'his' toys (-wipe, Cunk and 'Black Mirror') elsewhere.

 

HH24 and TUT
Sitting in a tree…

 

You’re the only one for me @Keighley

 

Sssh. Tongues will wag, big boy.

 

I'd win an early round or two, for sure. But no. I'm not weird enough

 

Awful. Just an awful awful person.

 

Probably not unlike the selection process in the film "Starter for 10".

When I was working at Birkbeck College in 1996, it's UC team (including a Post-Grad in the Crystallography Dept I was resident at the time) posted a record low score of 40 (questions were subsequently asked in the Commons about the standard of Higher Education after this shock) as they got slaughtered by the University of Manchester team who scored 360, or more accurately, mullered by Stephen Pearson of Manchester , the human super-computer, who seemed to answered an inordinate number of questions before Paxo had finished reading them out. He then became organiser of the subsequent UOM UC teams. I remember him being on OC where he was good on the music questions.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/apr/22/univerity-challenge-manchester

https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ster-news/mastermind-behind-the-brains-911339

 

"In the first three series, clues in Rounds 1 and 2 and the connecting walls in Round 3 were identified by Greek letters. In series 4 Coren Mitchell announced that this idea had been dropped, ostensibly due to viewer complaints that it was too pretentious. Henceforth Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (two reeds, lion, twisted flax, horned viper, water, and the eye of Horus) would be used instead. The show's opening sequence displayed Greek letters in the first episode of Series 4, but these were replaced with the hieroglyphs in subsequent episodes."

LOL

 

Also a lack of basic science in some others.

 

Oh come on Moog, surely you've eaten Bourbon biscuits with Arnold Schwarzenegger on a camping holiday or taken a massive dump in the British Museum while dancing the Gay Gordons for charity.

 

Then there's the one from 'Pointless' where the category was 'people with names beginning with J'. One clue was 'shot in Dallas in 1963.' The desperate contestant furrowed her brow, then beamed a smile of relief as she proferred the answer 'JR Ewing'. Alexander Armstrong was incapacitated with laughter for almost a minute as the contestant looked on perplexed.

 

Not so sure with Paxman. He dismisses any popular culture questions as beneath him, and makes sure he has a sarcy dig at anyone who gets a question wrong to which he knew the answer (rather than because he has it front of him).
Not keen on Amol Rajan mind.

 

Really enjoyed Amol Rajan’s ‘Breaking the Class Ceiling’ series recently.

 

He's been very good on R4's "Today" and he was a very, very good host of "The Media Show".

 

I was once arrested in Mexico for peeing into a crocodile infested swamp

 

At least they realise their error, unlike smug Ben who describes Homer confidently as 'poet, scholar, bard, philosopher.'

 

I'm also an alumnus of KCL. Dropped out in 1999.

 

But he doesn't like to talk about Lebedev.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...uddenly-switch-newspapers-support-Tories.html