University Challenge 2017/18

[Maggot]

New series starts tonight - yay!

 

[JimW]

Good see-saw battle. I did terribly.

 

[Maggot]

Good see-saw battle. I did terribly.

Same here, only got 2 right.

 

[planetgeli]

Maps on the picture round were giveaways (Hudson Bay, Francis Drake, Darwin/Galapagos). Anyway you both did better than the woman on the end of Edinburgh. Don't think she got one did she?

Weird ending I thought. No rush from Paxman. Call me a cynic but I reckon that wasn't the first recorded. Just placed first to give an interesting introduction as it was so close.

 

[Maggot]

Good episode tonight. UCL might have won if it had been longer. Plus there was a round on pineapples 5t3IIa

 

[The Fornicator]

Did anyone, apart from lone female Rosenfelt, notice the one on the left was having a crafty wank?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Did anyone, apart from lone female Rosenfelt, notice the one on the left was having a crafty wank?

He seemed to be visibly trembling, and to be honest I don't think he was having an extremely ambitious danger-wank, more just being petrified on camera.

 

[Maggot]

Did anyone, apart from lone female Rosenfelt, notice the one on the left was having a crafty wank?

Was that the one who looked like Napoleon Dynamite?

 

[The Fornicator]

The only one I know of is Napoleon I. He doesn't look like him though.

Rosenfelt had a hint of a dark-haired young Barbara Striesand ('What's Up Doc', etc).

 

[Maggot]

Loved the bit where the only woman on the team had to tell the captain that the answer was Mansplaining.

 

[Maggot]

One of the Ulster team had a My Perfect Cousin T shirt under his jacket.

 

[Maggot]

They played a clip of Stairway to Heaven and the team didn't know it. They guessed Oasis.

 

[Sprocket.]

They played a clip of Stairway to Heaven and the team didn't know it. They guessed Oasis.

Young uns, hey!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

They played a clip of Stairway to Heaven and the team didn't know it. They guessed Oasis.

A team of 19/20 year olds didn't recognise a song that was released 27 years before they were born you say?

 

[Orang Utan]

They played a clip of Stairway to Heaven and the team didn't know it. They guessed Oasis.

I guessed Pink Floyd

 

[Maggot]

A team of 19/20 year olds didn't recognise a song that was released 27 years before they were born you say?

One of the most famous songs in the history of rock music.

 

[Orang Utan]

One of the most famous songs in the history of rock music.

It's very long though - I can only remember the quiet bit
And I doubt that many youngsters are into classic rock

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

One of the most famous songs in the history of rock music.

Maybe so, but you need to adjust for age. The team answered Oasis, because to them that's old guitar music. Definitely Maybe predates their birth, the last Oasis album came out when they were about 11.

 

[Maggot]

Maybe so, but you need to adjust for age. The team answered Oasis, because to them that's old guitar music. Definitely Maybe predates their birth, the last Oasis album came out when they were about 11.

But they normally have classical or opera questions from much, much earlier.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

But they normally have classical or opera questions from much, much earlier.

The teams don't usually do all that great on those either frankly.

 

[Mumbles274]

lamb1979 got frustrated at one point and answered "cow farts"

In fairness the actually answer was natural gas so not far off

 

[Maggot]

Final tonight!