University Challenge

BroomBurner

Anyone else like watching this? Myself and the OH play the game of seeing how many questions we can get right. Needless to say, it's not that many

Anyway, it's the final tonight, between the one-woman quiz machine that is Corpus Christi's Gail Trimble and the might that is the University of Manchester (reigning champs, I think).

Tristram

Great show!

University Challenge

Pride Fighter

Its a great show.

BroomBurner

I think the most prevalent question tonight is "does Trimble have a Paxman crush?"

Hoping, in all my nerd-dom, for an epic battle tonight.



Followed nicely by Masterchef. Gotta love the BBC.

sillyputty

Saw the segment they did on the wonder brain that is Gail Trimble on the 6 o'clock bbc news. She is amazing answering 2/3 of her teams total points but i think she is a little smug - her smile aftger every question she gets right but then again I'm jealous. She seems pretty down to earth during her interview on the news.

Berti Vogts

BroomBurner wrote: »

I think the most prevalent question tonight is "does Trimble have a Paxman crush?"

Hoping, in all my nerd-dom, for an epic battle tonight.



Followed nicely by Masterchef. Gotta love the BBC.

Well, you certainly got your epic battle. Trimble will surely be on Eggheads before long. The voiceover guy sounded a bit manic there at the end! And where is yer man Marsden from Oxford going with the hair, I thought that died with Beverly Hills 90210!

MagicMarker

Pfft.

Blackboard Jungle ftw.

LordSutch

I missed it tonight, so how did Trimble do ?

Pigman II

I'll watch it if either of the teams has a pretty female contestant on. Nothing like a bit of brains and beauty.

besty

Pigman II wrote: »

I'll watch it if either of the teams has a pretty female contestant on. Nothing like a bit of brains and beauty.

Vordermanesque.

I've heard about this one from University Challenge actually. I'd say Paxman was fawning over her. I love nothing more than him scoffing at what he deems to be a foolish answer from one of the teams on something psychotically complicated like Astrophysics.

RobertFoster

Camelot wrote: »

I missed it tonight, so how did Trimble do ?

Manchester led most of the way, but Corpus Christi/Trimble kicked it up a notch in the last ~4 minutes. Needless to say, she was back grimacing and flicking her hair with every correct answer. The Manchester captain fluffed an answer and it was all downhill from there.

Hrududu

I thought Manchester were going to do it, but good old Ms Trimble came back into form towards the end. I've been watching all the way through and thought she'd...I mean they'd win.

SaintHubbins

I love university challenge. It's the only show I miss since I got rid of telly in the house (and those mean bbc people won't let you watch on their website if you are outside the UK). I also used to really like that Irish version that was on years ago, Challenging Times. Ok, Kevin Myers is a bit of a twat but it was better than some reality tv nonsense. Where have all the quiz shows gone off Irish t.v.???

K4t

SaintHubbins wrote: »

I love university challenge. It's the only show I miss since I got rid of telly in the house (and those mean bbc people won't let you watch on their website if you are outside the UK). I also used to really like that Irish version that was on years ago, Challenging Times. Ok, Kevin Myers is a bit of a twat but it was better than some reality tv nonsense. Where have all the quiz shows gone off Irish t.v.???

We don't like quizes anymore. We prefer watching celebrities do random stuff and people winning obscene amounts of money on Winning Streak for buying a scratch card. I love modern Ireland.

Carlotta

K4t wrote: »

We don't like quizes anymore. We prefer watching celebrities do random stuff and people winning obscene amounts of money on Winning Streak for buying a scratch card. I love modern Ireland.

Winning Streak has been around for ages. I remember watching it as a kid in the early 90's. I thought you had it made if you got on it - cars, foreign holidays and buckets of cash.
In the past decade the prizes didn't seem as huge, I guess because living standards and disposable income increased. New cars every year and multiple foreign holidays became the norm and anything under 50k in winnings and you felt people didn't do very well.

dudara

SaintHubbins wrote: »

Where have all the quiz shows gone off Irish t.v.???

They're all gone because the country's total intelligence quotient has dropped dramatically since Krystal opened and V.I.P. starting being printed.

I remember really good tough quiz shows as a kid - I'd love to see them back.

BroomBurner

dudara wrote: »

They're all gone because the country's total intelligence quotient has dropped dramatically since Krystal opened and V.I.P. starting being printed.

I remember really good tough quiz shows as a kid - I'd love to see them back.

Maybe they were tough because you were a kid, the same quizes would be fairly rubbish now.

IronMan

I miss 15 to 1 that used to be on Channel 4 before Countdown. It was a no nonsense quiz show, plenty of questions in the half hour, and they were pitched to be slightly difficult, but not impossible.

Mastermind is still good, but I find the specialised subject rounds to be tedious, general knowledge rounds are excellent.

I do love a good no-whistles quiz show.

quickbeam

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7919830.stm

The BBC has disqualified the latest University Challenge winning team for breaking the rules by using a contestant who was no longer a student.

The title has been transferred to the University of Manchester, the team beaten by Corpus Christi College, Oxford on the TV quiz last week.

By the time the final was filmed, team member Sam Kay was working as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr Kay has apologised and said "it was never my intention to mislead anyone."

Poor Oxford. Poor Manchester - that's no way to win a competition.

Pigman II

Hrududu wrote: »

I thought Manchester were going to do it, but good old Ms Trimble came back into form towards the end. I've been watching all the way through and thought she'd...I mean they'd win.

It's interesting to examine the vitriol that Trimble has been met with by some corners of the media in the wake of her win. Compare it with the about-face they have done with Jade "thick as pig-shít and as talentless to boot waste-of-skin" Goody since her impending death became a matter for concern.

Clearly it doesn't pay to be intelligent and an achiever in this modern world. Much better to brazenly proclaim your stupidity to anyone who'll listen and hope you'll remain in the public conciousness long enough for you to be able to cash-in on it.

elshambo

Pigman II wrote: »

It's interesting to examine the vitriol that Trimble has been met with by some corners of the media in the wake of her win.

It's more interesting to consider that if she was a he
she would not have gotten any attention for her performance or her intellect at all,
apart from some second rate tv comedian calling him(her) a nerd/geek, sad man or the likes


as for some corners of the media
some corners of the media
have very blunt edges