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  • LMcD
    Full Member
    • Sep 2017
    • 8643

    Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
    Forgive me if I've got the rules wrong, but if that's the case, and if Leo's stumbled answer had been disallowed, there would have been another starter question...which Bristol might have won.
    It seems to me that you have got the rules right. In any case, it wasn't so much a stumbled answer as a post-buzzer continuation of the search for one. While it might be unkind to describe it as conscious sportsmanship, he certainly shouldn't have been allowed to get away with it - again.

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    • ardcarp
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 11102

      A good contest tonight with well-matched teams, I thought. Some very hard questions though. An interesting music question. With the Singer/Polignac connection we anticipated the Poulenc Organ Concerto might come up...but not easy for non-specialists. I thought the science/maths topics were especially arcane.

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      • LMcD
        Full Member
        • Sep 2017
        • 8643

        Just a reminder that the new series starts on Monday 15th July at 2030 on BBC 2 with a match between Lancaster and Glasgow.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26572

          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
          Just a reminder that the new series starts on Monday 15th July at 2030 on BBC 2 with a match between Lancaster and Glasgow.
          Hadn’t spotted that, thanks
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Richard Tarleton

            Was it any good? An Oxbridge round tonight.....wondering if we have the energy for another series, I suppose it helps keep the brain active.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26572

              Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
              Was it any good? An Oxbridge round tonight.....wondering if we have the energy for another series, I suppose it helps keep the brain active.

              Was interesting which classical music questions received a correct answer and which didn’t... (I got em all )
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Richard Tarleton

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                Was interesting which classical music questions received a correct answer and which didn’t... (I got em all )
                (just caught up...so did I ) As you say....though perhaps the question was confusing, I thought for a moment it was looking for a name for the watercourse featured in the Pastoral....not that that's an excuse for thinking it was by Handel - extraordinary in view of the other replies.....

                A rabbit-in-headlights performance from the Lancaster captain, and their classical music expert on the left has a bad attack of the Derhams.....

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                  A rabbit-in-headlights performance from the Lancaster captain, and their classical music expert on the left has a bad attack of the Derhams.....
                  - somebody mentioned elsethread that an announcer had mispronounced Smetana's name for the Ma Vlast Prom.

                  There used to be a story that, when an English Musician pronounced the composer's name with the emphasis on the second syllable, the composer corrected him by singing to the tune of the Finale of Beethoven's 8th Symphony

                  My name is Smetana, Smetana, Smetana
                  My name is Smetana, Smetana, Smetana
                  Not Sme-Taaa-na, Not Sme-Taa-na, Not Sme-Taa-na,
                  Not at all.
                  ... which is probably one of those stories that are so delightful that they can't be true.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Richard Tarleton

                    And the prize for most annoying team captain goes to.....

                    I hope someone has a word with him about being a smartarse and answering over the end of the question so that we can't hear either. No doubt he will become an internet sensation. I liked the Merton team, I do hope they come back as a highest-scoring loser but it'll be touch and go.

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8643

                      Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                      And the prize for most annoying team captain goes to.....

                      I hope someone has a word with him about being a smartarse and answering over the end of the question so that we can't hear either. No doubt he will become an internet sensation. I liked the Merton team, I do hope they come back as a highest-scoring loser but it'll be touch and go.
                      Couldn't agree more about the immensely irritating Mr Wang (was he ON something?). Bobby Seagull and Leo were bad enough - perhaps being hyper and pumped-up is now considered essential rather than just advantageous or amusing/entertaining.

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                        Couldn't agree more about the immensely irritating Mr Wang (was he ON something?). Bobby Seagull and Leo were bad enough - perhaps being hyper and pumped-up is now considered essential rather than just advantageous or amusing/entertaining.
                        Yes - I was very pleased that the winning team last week lacked any of these "this is my moment on telly, and I'm going to milk it" characters. Mr Wang's self-indulgent showing-off is typical of not a few recent team members, and it's really putting me off watching.
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Stanfordian
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 9322

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          Yes - I was very pleased that the winning team last week lacked any of these "this is my moment on telly, and I'm going to milk it" characters. Mr Wang's self-indulgent showing-off is typical of not a few members of recent team members, and it's really putting me off watching.
                          Like many television programme a surfeit of confidence seems to be the required qualification.

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                          • burning dog
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 1511

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            - somebody mentioned elsethread that an announcer had mispronounced Smetana's name for the Ma Vlast Prom.

                            .
                            An odd situation where pronouncing a name correctly leaves a sour taste.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by burning dog View Post
                              An odd situation where pronouncing a name correctly leaves a sour taste.
                              I beg your pudding?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • burning dog
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 1511

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                I beg your pudding?
                                I've been pouring over your reply with excellent results.

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