University Challenge

Pope....most normal

Balliol Pope, the Australian astrophysicist, redeemed himself well -- 3/3 on physics straight after Paxo's "what's the point of having an Australian?" about his nul points on Australian deserts. Though two rounds on astrophysics make you wonder if he's got a part-time job as a question-setter on TV quizzes. He knew all the Latin answers as well, against the stereotype of uncultured scientists (and uncultured Australians, come to that).

Birmingham Greenlees racked up a lot of penalties by buzzing in too soon but it made no difference.

You would have thought Deserts of Australia would be a primary school lesson 'back home'.

When is Eric Monkman on again??

who in normal life is reading quantum physics? what percentage of the population.

Ask them some coronation street stuff... they'd be stumped.

it's isolated university knowledge, bubble knowledge; that won't help you change a plug, fix a car or help you swim in the sea. Knowledge that gets revized, changes from decade to decade.

knowing the capital cities of the world has never done anything for me?

There's a clip on Twitter of a younger Monkman on a Canadian tv quiz show. He almost looks human.

https://twitter.com/UniversityChal/status/838855455371821056

Eric Monkman and the tranny!!

An all time University Challenge classic.

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Monkmania sweeps Twitter again.

Zorro - he is studying quantum physics, you are criticising BUT you can't even spell revised.