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What about the idiot the other day with a bow in his hair?
Was he making a statement or just a thicko? |
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Worse than the bow was his shirt, apparently made from several garish wallpaper patterns stitched together.
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Good spot, maybe the bow was a distraction for his shirt.
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Fitzwilliam, Cambridge vs Magdalen, Oxford.
This is the one with bow/shirt guy, reading Japanese studies. Kudos to the Oxford captain for cutting short a discussion with, we should give up and get on with it. |
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steerforth 13 Dec 17 16:56
Why is it that the celebs constantly confer on a starter or buzz on the bonuses - only for Paxman to bark at them? The students don't do it, but the older ones don't seem to be able to get their head around it. imo cos the studes are ultra-serious about it whereas the 'celebs' are in a more relaxed mode...like when you'd be playing football with your mates in the playground, playing to win, and then a girl would join in and you'd start playing sh!te cos mentally you'd dropped off, werent taking it 100% seriously no more |
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Fair point Duncan, but personally speaking- back in the day, if a girl I fancied showed up while I was playing my performance used to suddenly go up two divisions!
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if i had my time again, i'd defo follow that approach tbf
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Oxford Brookes vs Merton, Oxford
Though mainly just Oxford Brookes de Bock vs Merton Peplow. An entertaining and fast moving contest. The winning team's early lead gave them a sufficient cushion against a late run. |
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The start of the quarter-finals (with the odd rules about having to win two of them).
Bristol vs Newcastle. Nip and tuck until the last five minutes, leading to a wide margin win that did not reflect the match. How many thoracic vertebrae are there in the human spine? It helps to have two medical students on your team! |
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"O" level biology. The thorax is the chest, 12 pairs of ribs, 12 vertebrae.
I thought Newcastle were the better team but were overtaken at one point. |
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Fitzwilliam Cambridge vs Merton Oxford
Fitzwilliam's captain misheard copper as cobalt. |
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St John's, Cambridge vs Ulster
A tale of two halves: Ulster got no points at all till halfway but it was a head-bobber at the finish line. Ulster must have fielded a ringer who claimed to be studying fine art but got two rounds of advanced organic chemistry questions right. |
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Edinburgh vs Emmanuel, Cambridge
Two rounds of psychology questions stumped the teams. Come to think of it, it is very rare to have psychology students take part. Emmanuel Frazer gave the impression more than once that of buzzing before he has quite worked out the answer. |
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Newcastle vs St John's, Cambridge
An enormous number of penalties for wrong interruptions, and Paxo got one wrong when he disallowed St John's Hazell for DNP for Brady's Reagent, saying it had to be DNPH. As a former member of the chemistry union, I was seething for the rest of the programme. And Es -- I can just about accept them not knowing the atomic number of Einsteinium, but surely the 2010 World Cup winners should have been within their ken. |
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Brady's reagent = DNP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OugcrG8y_Ig |
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Bristol vs Ulster
Fairly one-sided. The Music and English students on Bristol's team should hang their heads in shame -- the lady mathematician had to bail them out on their specialist subjects. |
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Neilsen - Newcastle
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Agreed.
Reckon if her Newcastle win, the captain may be getting a bonus. |
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https://thetab.com/uk/newcastle/2018/01/03/we-interviewed-the-newcastle-students-competing-in-university-challenge-and-this-is-what-we-found-out-30341 |
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Running well behind live.
Fitzwilliam, Cambridge vs Emmanuel, Cambridge Both teams having a medical student is not unusual but this contest had half an Arabic degree each side: Russian and Arabic against Arabic and Hindi. Two wtf bonus rounds -- American presidents with the same names as England footballers, and literary expressions in the dead parrot sketch. Brainfade as well. If Paxo gives you degrees longitude when asking about mountains, you certainly ought to know if it is in Europe or America. |