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Emmanuel, Cambridge vs St Hugh's, Oxford
St Hugh's De Wijze put in some world-class grimacing. St Hugh's used to be an all-women's college (the Prime Minister went there) and there seems to be some sort of social media kerfuffle that their UC team was all-male. |
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St Andrews vs St John's, Cambridge
A storming performance with at least three strong students on the winning team. The 40 question has been used by QI, which is the only reason I got it first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmavEEnK0U |
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Corpus Christi, Cambridge vs St Anne's, Oxford
Corpus Christi Krol could have turned up on his own. St Anne's had a chemist, which imo should be compulsory as I got the chemistry supplementaries right. |
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St Anne's was unlucky to get a penalty on the plate tectonics question -- I thought the answer Wegener was given in time but Paxo clearly felt she'd taken too long.
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Merton College, Ocford vs King's College London
Merton seemed luckier in having questions tailored to their degree subjects. |
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Ulster beat St Anne's Oxford. Nobody recognised Sir Tim Berners-Lee. I find that astonishing!
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Both teams struggled with science. St. Anne's were poor. Considering that they are an Oxford college they were shocking.
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Ulster vs St Anne's Oxford
Surprisingly one-sided. |
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As @Foinavon notes, St Anne's were poor -- far worse than they'd looked in their previous match.
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The conventional wisdom is that older contestants might know more but it takes them longer to recall, leaving them at a disadvantage when pressing the button on starter questions, yet here the clear winners Ulster had an average age of 50: more than double St Anne's, as JP pointed out.
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Was talking to my mate who somehow manages to get on the fringes of a pub team in Bolton.
His team was up against a team including Anne Hegerty. I think The Vixen from The Chase was in the same team. |
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University College London (UCL) vs St Hugh's, Oxford.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Oh dear, St Hugh's. Not a good night for the Oxford team, who'd have answered more questions if they'd stayed in the student bar. UCL's enthusiastic conferring was entertaining. |
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Monkman & Seagull have a quiz book out in time for Christmas.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monkman-Seagull-Quiz-Book/dp/1911335995 |
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Second round begins. Strathclyde vs Emmanuel College, Cambridge (formerly led by Seagull, of course).
The result was a lot closer than seemed likely in the first few minutes. Emmanuel had some very lucky guesses. |
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McKeown, very knowledgeable girl
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@Foinavon -- McKeown, very knowledgeable girl
St John's McKeown (to give her her full name) studying French and German certainly knew her poems. |
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There's something about her, maybe its the lisp.
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Rosie Mckeown. She should let her hair down, the style is too severe.
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I've seen plenty of movies where they let their hair down and take their glasses off.
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Good team St Johns, shared out the answers and all contributed, possible winners.
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Maybe she will for the final.
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B loody cruel, putting an S in Lisp, whoever did it
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St John's Cambridge vs Corpus Christi Cambridge.
The Fen Poly derby match was a bit one-sided: see the last few comments. |
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I can't put my finger on why but for the first time in many years, I'm not really enjoying this series.
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I series record them on Sky. I still have about 4 to watch. Maybe I'm not enjoying them as much either.
Are the questions more difficult?! |
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I think it is the teams rather than the questions. It seems very obvious that some teams now treat it more as a glorified pub quiz than a test of general or academic knowledge, and you can see where they have divided up subjects to revise from wikipedia or wherever. Nor have there been any real stars so far.
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Fewer geniuses, eccentrics or fit girls?
Have we had any contestants with really long or unusual names yet? |
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Warwick vs Ulster
Ulster team a lot older. Warwick Salter always sounded pleasantly surprised when Paxman corrected a wrong answer. Warwick Jackson on suicide watch after her team caught level just before the end only for Ulster to regain the lead and win. |
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Warwick looked like 2 men and 2 women but there seemed to be at least 3 adams apples on show!!!!!
I got the one about the assassin right.  |
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Surprising neither team knew the temperature of maximum density of water is 4 degrees C. It's the reason why ponds and rivers don't freeze from the bottom up, fortunately for aquatic wildlife. Schoolboy physics knowledge.
I remember the physics teacher, who was deeply religious, trying to tell us it was evidence for the divine. Even then I knew it was bllx and beyond his remit to be telling us that. |
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Both captains annoyed the hell out of me, well at least we won't be seeing one of them again.
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Warwick looked like 2 men and 2 women but there seemed to be at least 3 adams apples on show!!!!!
Women do have Adam's apples; they just tend not to be as prominent as on men. It is possible one woman was trans but a visible Adam's apple is not proof. |
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Stone is hot
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That was a cracking show last night, lead changed hands a few times and it was won with the last question.
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Edinburgh vs UCL (University College London)
To combine the two previous comments, it was Edinburgh Stone who won it with the last starter before the gong. |
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Hot on the buzzer?
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Not on this week -- usurped by Nigella Lawson's whole hour of incompetent pot-rattling. The woman can't cook FFS. She did go to Oxford, mind, though Wikipedia doesn't vouchsafe which college she'll be cheering for.
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Was she a challenge at university and did anyone win the challenge.
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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. Also Paxman makes a point at the beginning, if he refers to the rules at all, of stressing that they will lose five points for an incorrect interruption. They don't need that reminder, its the conferring he should be stressing. Does my head in! |
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I'm losing interest in this series and you may have spotted a calendar-related problem with the thread title.
Newcastle vs Southampton Four medical students -- two on each team. |