University Challenge

[LMcD]

Another one-sided but absorbing contest - Kerry Andrew's brilliant blog says it all.

One howler among the bird questions - I'm sure Jezza said, as a clue, that Fulica atra was smaller than a moorhen. Coots are of course larger than moorhens, as any fule no.

There's a less hen to be learned here, I think....Or was the question-setter thinking of a moorhen chick at the time?
Another stand-out performance from one particular contestant.
I'm a bit annoyed at myself for getting one of the music questions wrong.

[cloughie]

There's a less hen to be learned here, I think....Or was the question-setter thinking of a moorhen chick at the time?
Another stand-out performance from one particular contestant.
I'm a bit annoyed at myself for getting one of the music questions wrong.

I won’t shame you by asking which one!

[LMcD]

I won’t shame you by asking which one!

The second bonus question.

[Richard Tarleton]

There's a less hen to be learned here, I think....

I cootn't agree more.

I don't do big band questions but couldn't help getting Glenn Miller.

[Stanfordian]

I cootn't agree more.

I don't do big band questions but couldn't help getting Glenn Miller.

Surprisingly that was one of the few that the American oracle didn't know! What a super player he was!

[Richard Tarleton]

At least last night's was decided on the last buzz, win by a nose, but no standout performances like last week. Kerry Andrew's blog manages to make something of it. Only one (verbal) classical music question (Rimsky Korsakov) - as someone who wouldn't know an Indie band if it bit him in the leg I couldn't do much with the music round. Some unseemly but understandable air-punching at the very end.

[LMcD]

Surprisingly that was one of the few that the American oracle didn't know! What a super player he was!

And I'm sure he'd be the first to agree with you...A North American team member seems to be almost a default setting these days.

[Richard Tarleton]

'Phew. Kerry Andrew's blog silent on last week's wipeout by Durham of - can't even remember. Perhaps she was busy elsewhere, frankly I couldn't think of anything to say, neither could anyone else it seems. But she's back on form with tonight's stonking performance by



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Teddy Hall's ♂♂♀♀ team. Here at Tarleton Towers we scored - well, more than York (we only count it if we shout the answer first). SEH lucky to get 3 India-related questions . Wagner, Rossini.....

[ardcarp]

SEH lucky to get 3 India-related questions

I thought that too. But that Leo guy seemed quite a polymath...and knew his music too. The York team seemed not to be concentrating some of the time, misconstruing what the questions were actually asking for on at least two occasions.

[LMcD]

Just caught up with this on iPlayer. That Leo was a bit intense, wasn't he! Is this the first time that only 1 quarter of a team has been a 'Brit'? (I'm not complaining, merely enquiring )

[Richard Tarleton]

Another lacklustre round - "muted", in Kerry's blog. Queen's discussing their answers amongst themselves as if they were in the pub and had all the time in the world. Slightly losing the will to live with the competition this year, hopefully things will pick up in the second round. Jezza mispronounced Sophia Coppola for the second time this series - it's Soph-ee-a, not Soph-eye-a.......

[LMcD]

I'm afraid I became increasingly irritated as the teams took turns to use every question as the basis for a disorganized committee meeting. Even those people who really don't like 'Paxo' must surely have admired his forbearance (or perhaps they'd condemn his unwillingness to impose some sorely needed discipline...)

[ardcarp]

Taking a long time to 'agree' on an answer can presumably be a tactic, depending on whether your team is in the lead or not...but I don't think that was the case last night. I would personally have liked Paxo to gee them up a bit.

[LMcD]

Taking a long time to 'agree' on an answer can presumably be a tactic, depending on whether your team is in the lead or not...but I don't think that was the case last night. I would personally have liked Paxo to gee them up a bit.

[gurnemanz]

Taking a long time to 'agree' on an answer can presumably be a tactic, depending on whether your team is in the lead or not...but I don't think that was the case last night. I would personally have liked Paxo to gee them up a bit.

Agree. I'm sure Bamber Gascoigne used to cut in much more avidly: "Have to hurry you!"