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The poetry and football round was my favourite.
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There seemed to be a lot of questions based on popular culture. Being dumbed down unfortunately.
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Dumbed down? Perhaps, though the first round is usually easiest. Ulster's older team was at an advantage for some of these questions, like the theme tunes from 80s/90s sitcoms.
But if not of the highest quality, it was exciting with the lead changing with almost every starter during the second half of the match. |
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Week 2: Trinity Cambridge vs Bristol
Both teams started slowly but Bristol's half-time oranges did the trick. Trinity alumni include Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt: none of whom were mentioned. |
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(I've been reading about the Cambridge spies these past few days -- I'm not clever enough to have gone there myself.)
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Is Monkman in it this year??
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No Monkman, I fear.
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We did have a live thread
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Week 3. Southampton vs Cardiff.
Three medical students on view: two for Southampton and one for Cardiff. Something of a rout. |
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OT -- Monkman and Seagull on the wireless.
[Monkman] and Seagull became friends off screen and even travelled to interviews together during the series as their popularity soared. So what will their new radio show actually be about? Good question. The pair are set to explore whether being highly intelligent is actually a useful quality. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40811103 |
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Another question would be 'is being very good at university challenge a useful quality'.
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Episode 4.
St Edmund's Cambridge vs Magdalen Oxford Funniest moment of the series so far came with an interruption to a spelling question: how do you spell the word Soon followed by an encore: ... has the chemical formula There was also a round on film scores possibly inspired by the chit chat thread, though I concede it is more likely coincidence. |
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Episode 5: York vs Warwick
A bit of a rout, and the Warwick captain looks like a character to follow, although I'm not sure a team consisting of two creative writers and two mathematicians is sufficiently balanced to go all the way. Warwick Jackson, on the far left, appeared to have been allotted the task of remembering the starts of questions. |
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Should be shown live, with in-running betting.
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Warwick, Jackson-an interesting looking person. Warwick seem to have several of them at that university, as I seem to remember one in a previous year.
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Episode 6: Oxford Brookes vs the Courtauld Institute of Art
Oxford Brookes de Kock carried his team to a comfortable win but the Courtauld Institute will get some stick in the student union bar for missing two artist starters (Degas and Constable) and two other art questions. De Kock is reading motorsport engineering, which is quite possibly the coolest subject of the series so far. |
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@Slicer -- Warwick Jackson reminded me of a woman at work but you probably do not know her.
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The producers might now consider including a preliminary round for viewers at the start of each episode.
Guess the gender. I might have come a (Hayley) cropper on a couple this week. |
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The old woman on the winning team was terrible, she gave away more points than she won. In fact the winning lot were pretty much a one man team - De Hoch.
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The arty mob had Andy Warhol as captain.
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I think there might of been a couple of Lebanese at each end of the winning team.
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I haven't watched this week's episode yet but I get the drift
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I think you're right about that Slicer.
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Just watched it. Apart from de Hoch who was studying a branch of engineering, they were all doing sinecures. No wonder he could run rings around them.
Perhaps Slicer is right, conforming to the Narrative is the most important selection criterion. |
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Think they select 28 teams from about 150? applicants?
I don't believe for a minute they are chosen purely on ability. (There's a good question to them....what factors other than ability do they use in selecting teams to appear on the show?) And why should Oxbridge have multiple teams?? Stinks a bit, doesn't it? |
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If the producers didn't tailor the bonus round questions to suit the contestants' particular subjects of study, it is quite likely that these Oxbridge teams would get their arses handed to them in a plate by four unemployed daytime quiz addicts. The general knowledge of many teams is often very poor - with one or two not notable exceptions of course like De Hock or Monkman who are clearly very smart indeed.
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@Torquemada -- Birkbeck (the London evening college for mature students) proved that a few years back when they won with what was basically a pub quiz team. (One of them was basically a high-functioning alcoholic iirc.)
It is noticeable these days that many teams revise by swotting up on trivia -- wikipedia has a lot to answer for. |
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Some kind soul has put this scene up on Youtube.
Episode 4. St Edmund's Cambridge vs Magdalen Oxford Funniest moment of the series so far came with an interruption to a spelling question: how do you spell the word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo3wz8jWKJg |
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Here are the scores from the latest round of the British Quizzing Championship, the usual
suspects are at the top. To put scores into perspective a really good Pub Quizzer would score just over the 100 mark and a good quizzer would be in the 70s https://quest.quizzing.com/#/season/100018/quiz/100179 |
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Are the Q & As available online?
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Trinity, Oxford vs University College London (UCL).
Not much to say this week. |
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Another two minutes and the other team might have won, I suppose.
The lighting seemed a bit poor this week, and made UCL Dowell look a bit zombie-like at certain moments when he looked upwards. But none of the questions caught my imagination. |
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Parr-Reid was just there as eye-candy imo.
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Sheffield Hallam vs Newcastle
A bit of a rout but both teams seemed weak and unbalanced: all arts from Hallam; two medics, a chemist and a trainee teacher (subject undisclosed) for Newcastle. Neither team knew much about pop music, not recognising Marvin Gaye or various album covers based on paintings. But the most surprising failure came with the astronomy question: which two solar system bodies have rotation periods of 30 Earth days? OK, so neither team got the Sun, but not to know the moon? (And that ignores that distances from Earth were also given.) |
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Newcastle knew some stuff. they could get better in the next couple of rounds. poor showing from Hallam.
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Leicester vs Fitzwilliam, Cambridge
Don't let Fitzwilliam Howe's Christmas jumper distract you from his equally colourful psychedelic shirt. By coincidence, immediately before the programme I'd been reading in Dorothy Hodgkin's biography, of her Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, so knew the answer to who'd turned down the literature prize the same year (no spoilers here!). |
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Cambridge knew their stuff! They're going to be a threat this series
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Imperial vs Strathclyde
Unfortunately I dozed off in the middle so have no idea how what started off looking like a walkover ended up as a head-bobber. iPlayer here we come. The Spanish chemistry student Imperial Rubio Gorrochategui looks a good thing for the series' most exotic name. Imperial College recently took over St Mary's medical school which explains why Paxo credited them with Roger Bannister and Alexander Fleming. |
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