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Toggy
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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:12 pm Post subject: University Challenge |
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I really enjoyed this series and was delighted to see Trinity win the trophy last night.
I was very impressed by the Slovakian chap on the Cambridge team, also the captain Morley was a very bright lad. |
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becky sharp
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Yes it's been a good series,Toggy.....nice to hear Jeremy praise both teams at the end. 
I like the trophy.. a very nice looking object. Is there a new one every year,I wonder?
Another favourite quiz of mine, Fifteen-To-One, is back on Channel 4 with Sandi Toksvig taking the role that William G Stewart used to be so good at.
I always preferred it to Countdown. |
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Shaky Fan
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| Challenge TV have just got the rights to the 1st series of the original 15 To 1 and will be starting to show it soon. |
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Helen May
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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I think it's been a great series this year and I'm glad Trinity won although I was hoping SOAS would have got through their semi final.
I think my next door neighbour was on 15 To 1 years ago but I can't remember how he got on and I never saw it on TV!
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oldraver
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: University Challenge |
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| Toggy wrote: | I really enjoyed this series and was delighted to see Trinity win the trophy last night.
I was very impressed by the Slovakian chap on the Cambridge team, also the captain Morley was a very bright lad. |
I went through the entire series, thinking he was Polish! The semi-final was best, I thought, when they were behind to Manchester, and looked as if they were going to get beaten, until they went turbo charged in the last ten minutes. Astounding.
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Helen May
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Me too Becky. I'm hoping the other team wins but I won't hold my breath. It will be a miss until the next season begins.
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FleetingEileenM
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I always back Oxford against Cambridge, stemming from my schooldays when we had a netball match at the time of the Boat Race and I was always in the Oxford team (I think I liked dark blue more than light blue). It was a good final tonight. There was one question which I was able to answer when none of the students could. Unfortunately I now can't remember what it was  . |
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becky sharp
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| Helen May wrote: | Me too Becky. I'm hoping the other team wins but I won't hold my breath. It will be a miss until the next season begins.
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Well they did just that,Helen!
| FleetingEileenM wrote: | | I always back Oxford against Cambridge, stemming from my schooldays when we had a netball match at the time of the Boat Race and I was always in the Oxford team (I think I liked dark blue more than light blue). It was a good final tonight. There was one question which I was able to answer when none of the students could. Unfortunately I now can't remember what it was . |
I can never remember which is which,Eileen.. 
A decent final and Mr Monkman looked genuinely happy for the other team.
Good sportsmanship.
Jeremy seemed happy when Mr Monkman got a question wrong...surely not.  |
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Helen May
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I was pleased with the outcome Becky and I think Jeremy enjoyed it too!
I always mixed the colours up as well, until last summer at the son of a close friend's wedding, the wedding party ties and table accessories were in Cambridge blue as the bride and groom met there.
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becky sharp
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Helen May wrote: | I was pleased with the outcome Becky and I think Jeremy enjoyed it too!
I always mixed the colours up as well, until last summer at the son of a close friend's wedding, the wedding party ties and table accessories were in Cambridge blue as the bride and groom met there.
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Which is..?   |
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Helen May
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Mid to pale blue with a touch of turquoise thrown in. Well that was the colour of the ties!
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becky sharp
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| Helen May wrote: | Mid to pale blue with a touch of turquoise thrown in. Well that was the colour of the ties!
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I'll see if that sticks,Helen... |
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FleetingEileenM
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| becky sharp wrote: | A decent final and Mr Monkman looked genuinely happy for the other team.
Good sportsmanship.
Jeremy seemed happy when Mr Monkman got a question wrong...surely not. |
That was a funny moment and I think Jeremy said something like "That was an absolutely useless answer"! I was reading about Eric Monkman and he seems genuinely bemused by all the attention being heaped on him. Some chap met him in the street and asked for a selfie with him as "my girlfriend loves you" . His parents and older sister are all doctors. Sis said fondly of him that he is a little eccentric . |
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becky sharp
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| FleetingEileenM wrote: | | becky sharp wrote: | A decent final and Mr Monkman looked genuinely happy for the other team.
Good sportsmanship.
Jeremy seemed happy when Mr Monkman got a question wrong...surely not. |
That was a funny moment and I think Jeremy said something like "That was an absolutely useless answer"! |
Yes!.. | FleetingEileenM wrote: | | I was reading about Eric Monkman and he seems genuinely bemused by all the attention being heaped on him. Some chap met him in the street and asked for a selfie with him as "my girlfriend loves you" . His parents and older sister are all doctors. Sis said fondly of him that he is a little eccentric . |
I think she might have something there... |
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oldraver
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Mr Monkman was on last year as well, wasn't he? There's a touch of Roy Cropper about him. Anyway, that's not why I've posted.
I got two answers that none of the finalists got. The second one was "dog" but unless I watch it again, I can't remember the first. That said, half of the questions might as well be in Esperanto.
Also, regarding Mr M, I found myself wondering how costly his two inaccurate "buzzing early" answers were. Could have made all the difference.
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becky sharp
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| oldraver wrote: | | Mr Monkman was on last year as well, wasn't he? There's a touch of Roy Cropper about him. Anyway, that's not why I've posted. |
Yes! ...his long lost son?
| oldraver wrote: | I got two answers that none of the finalists got. The second one was "dog" but unless I watch it again, I can't remember the first. That said, half of the questions might as well be in Esperanto.
Also, regarding Mr M, I found myself wondering how costly his two inaccurate "buzzing early" answers were. Could have made all the difference. |
His eagerness to buzz in early was a little uncharacteristic...perhaps he was a little nervous. He made some rather strange movements with his arms at one point...wonder what that was all about. |
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FleetingEileenM
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| becky sharp wrote: |
His eagerness to buzz in early was a little uncharacteristic...perhaps he was a little nervous. He made some rather strange movements with his arms at one point...wonder what that was all about. |
I have just watched it again and I think he was trying to delay a too-eager answer to a tricky maths question, adding up the numbers of four elements.
The answer I knew which they didn't was Jacques Tati …possibly a little lightweight for their superior brains? Their answer was Jean Luc Godard.
NB Tati was a comedic genius IMO |
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oldraver
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That was it, Eileen..Monsieur Hulot's Holiday! I was amazed nobody got it.
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becky sharp
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| FleetingEileenM wrote: | | becky sharp wrote: |
His eagerness to buzz in early was a little uncharacteristic...perhaps he was a little nervous. He made some rather strange movements with his arms at one point...wonder what that was all about. |
I have just watched it again and I think he was trying to delay a too-eager answer to a tricky maths question, adding up the numbers of four elements. |
Right,thanks for that,Eileen..it just looked ever so odd.
| FleetingEileenM wrote: | The answer I knew which they didn't was Jacques Tati …
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| oldraver wrote: | | That was it, Eileen..Monsieur Hulot's Holiday! |
That makes three of us who knew it...  |
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becky sharp
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| I'm enjoying,as usual, the Christmas editions of University Challenge with the (slightly ) older contestants but was astonished that none of Ekow Eshun's team knew that Boadicea was the Queen of the Iceni tribe.. I thought that was common knowledge..obviously not. |
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Schizoidman
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I knew the 'Iceni' answer!
I always watch UC, and also Only Connect. It's the UC final tonight! |
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Helen May
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I've really enjoyed this Christmas series.
I've not watched many Only Connect episodes, maybe I should give it a try.
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becky sharp
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| Schizoidman wrote: | I knew the 'Iceni' answer!
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That makes two of us then...
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I always watch UC, and also Only Connect. It's the UC final tonight! |
An evenly matched contest until the last few questions. Quite pleased with myself I knew the Edna Ferber question, which none of the people asked knew.
Only Connect together with University Challenge is my regular Monday night viewing.
A while ago,for some unknown reason, they moved Only Connect to Friday nights...obviously proved an unpopular move as it was soon returned to it's Monday slot. |
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Helen May
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:59 am Post subject: University Challenge New Season |
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It's that time of year again 8.30pm BBC2 and Jeremy Paxman!
Makes you feel as if summer is over but I'm looking forward to watching.
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becky sharp
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Cheers Helen.
No Only Connect - they're usually a twosome on a Monday? |
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Helen May
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Not sure about that Becky, didn't they move Only Connect to a Friday?
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becky sharp
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| Helen May wrote: | Not sure about that Becky, didn't they move Only Connect to a Friday?
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They did,Helen, but I thought they moved it back to Monday. |
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Helen May
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Just checked and it's Nadya's cookery programme at 8pm. Maybe when that has finished they will start Only Connect again.
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becky sharp
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| That could well be the case - thanks Helen. |
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