University Challenge Watch

WTF is going on here in the University of St Andrews team!!!!

On the left, we have a literal bell-end with a flowerpot on his head, take it off, you are indoors, doing Astrophysics (unsurprisingly). On the right, we have Withnail's cousin doing English (natch) who looks like he's been dragged out of bed in his pyjamas, then through a hedge backwards, stuffed in a tramp's dressing gown and dumped in the studio. I know he was a replacement but could someone at least have given him a shower and vaguely combed his hair.

 

It’s a hard sell to get a thread going on University Challenge.

Bargain Hunt is on 64 pages . Says it all .

 

Reminds me of the good old days...

 

It does indeed...

 

Here's a starter for 10 they didn't get:

"What 4-letter word is shared by a part of the anatomy of a cockerel and a common item of grooming equipment?"

 

We watched this. Hickford looked like the sort of recovering opioid addict with a rancid student house that would've been considered a 'legend' by 1st years.

He couldn't take his hands off his face.

I'd say University Challenge is one of the toughest ****s on TV. Crumpet at an absolute premium amongst these brain boxes. Maybe Only Connect has a lower smash to pass ratio.

 

Comb.

 

Who’s whooshing whom?

 

That’s a song by Aretha Franklin isn’t it?

 

Show some respect, mate.

 

Good thread. Who loves a bit of Only Connect too?

 

I'm hopefully st Only Connect but shout at the screen quite effectively in University Challenge (except when the questions are about integers and the like)

 

Not me. I cannot abide Victoria Coren-Mitchell.

 

Did I write that? Hopeless at Only Connect and at typing

 

3 posts re: Only Connect so far; the points go to whoever guesses post 4. I’m going for Since63.
Edit: double posts don’t count!

 

That’s a new one, you suddenly taking against someone or something disproportionately.

 

I wouldn't say it was disproportionate in this case.

 

I know. You wouldn’t.

 

One of the female postgrad students on a works coach to the Campus where I work was a Captain for one of the Cambridge Colleges on UC in a recent-ish Pre-Covid Series. She was very easy on the eye but had a really high opinion of herself as many from that University do. Great to see her team get right royally smashed in the First Round. She looked shell-shocked at the final gong. Brought back down to earth with a massive thud.

OC is quickly disappearing up it's own arse with quirky contestants, some having previously gurned their way through UC, replacing teams of just good quizzers, like in the first series which was won be Mark 'The Beast Labbett and two senior quizzers from his local rugby club.

 

I can think of a couple of disproportionate things when contemplating the poker playing princess.

 

I remember getting The Smiths album cover sequence on the first clue in an episode a while ago. One of my finest ever achievements. I also appreciated a wall question which included names of 3 scud mags as a Red Herring. A trap I readily fell into.

 

Make that a potential full set of 4.

I could imagine Kuga being a name for a similarly themed title.

 

I find the wall veers between quite easy and impossible with little middle ground. I’m quite happy if I get 4 of the connections in the first 2 rounds.

 

Well he was doing (sorry reading) Astronomy and Astrophysics so probably doesn't get out much. His partner will be a large gas giant no doubt.

 

The one they had for the Champion of Champions Xmas special with missing vowels in the wall tiles was just too ridiculous.

 

I usually do quite well at the wall, though it's not possible when you need to eliminate red herrings, but the actual team are too dumb to spot the connections.

I cannot abide VCM either. Self satisfied, slurping sloven, with her non jokes and her immense smugness at explaining the answers to questions that she didn't write and wouldn't have got if the answers weren't on the card in front of her.

She's awful. I wish David Mitchell had married Dobby.

 

I fit that demographic and I don't watch any of them.

PS: it's not the wrong side.

 

It's an intellect, rather than an age thing. Those with higher intellects are stimulated by highbrow quizzing, cryptic puzzles and buying utter tat at a boot sale to sell for a small profit at auction.

 

Yes, tbf I am as thick as mince.

 

Anyone know why Strike It Lucky later became Strike It Rich? Was it a Marathon/Snickers type unnecessary change or some copyright thing?

 

I’ve watched UC since I was about 14 as it was about the only one that didn’t clash with whatever my Mum wanted to watch…and then Mastermind as she quite enjoyed that for some reason. Some of the more recent specialist topics are ‘arcane’ to say the least, so most of the fun is in the general knowledge rounds.
I’m also intrigued at how the UC teams are selected…when I was at Uni the whole process was railroaded through by a cabal of aggressively ‘born again’ Christians who only selected people they knew from the Chapel acolytes. Needless to say, the lack of broader horizons meant they didn’t even qualify for the TV shows.