Only Connect University Challenge 2011 Special part 1 

If it wasn't for Victoria Coren (and in part, the connecting wall) I would never have ventured beyond iPlayer to watch this show. She's great.

The Hebrew letter in the first puzzle isn't "Qof," that's a letter earlier in the Hebrew Alphabet. The letter shown sounds like "roof," but beginning with a "K." This show deserves this level of pedantry.

I actually feel so smart if I ever get a question right on this show. Today was not one of those days

Because the target audience of this show doesn't need laugh tracks to tell them when to laugh.

Love the banter with the student candidate. Victoria would be the perfect comedian with a crowd command like that...

Guttenplan is such a pretty and socially clueless sheep. Amazing captain tho! I can relate to Victoria's crush.

Holy shit, after three episodes, I finally got an answer. Being American helped with Texas.

Wow, that Guttenplan guy has exceptionally cute face features and shy body language. He's a dream...

the host is hilarious

It would have been hilarious if Gutterplan asked Vicki if she was trying to seduce him (ala Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate).

I actually got 2 questions (for a potential total of 4 points). Pathetically proud of myself right now.

Should have just introduced the uni team as Guttenplan and those other two.

As someone who is Jewish and went to Hebrew school when I learned the alphabet we spelled that letter " kaf ". Qoph is archaic. It would most likely be Aramaic which is, technically, a parent language of Hebrew.

alex guttenplan is possibly the most socially awkward person i've ever seen.

Strapped to my thigh.

she is brilliant :-)

Well to be fair to Victoria, Alex is totally dreamy.

@meaning1 - She gave the University team a second chance at 8:39, and they actually get it right (their first answer was wrong - those sounds were recorded on satellites, they were not broadcast) so, if anything, the Challengers benefited more from it.

Voyager wasn't a satellite, it was a spacecraft. Nil point I'm afraid.

I love the contrast between Victoria sighing over Alex here and her pretty much throwing the test to make an elaborate proposal to Alex Horne in Taskmaster because she's just *that* in love with her husband. Like you can tell this was scripted (I say scripted because I think they were already dating at this point) *before* she married David Mitchell XD

Strictly speaking, Voyagers 1 and 2 were spacecraft, not satellites.

8:17 i was caught off guard when i heard my language hahah serbia doesn't show up in british quizzes a lot does it?

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emmanuel guttenplan!

@594968m I respectfully disagree. I love her style of hosting! :)

I can't believe I actually got an answer right

Ends at 14m

Just wondering: Do people tend to like Guttenplan?

Fawning over that young boy is super creepy. Just appalling

@starryxblue Haha this is so exactly why im watching it!!! Freaky...

Where’s part 2?

@georginarussell Don't explain the joke!

Imagine if a male presenter had been flirting like that with a female student 18 years his junior, making her visibly uncomfortable. Imagine the outrage.

this is sooo awkward lol.

@594968m It was a joke, because she's pretending to find him attractive

The Buddha isn't a reincarnation of Vishnu, he left Hinduism and began his own thing altogether!

Haaaaa the bit where Vicki is pretending to flirt with Alex is so effing funny! He so doesnt know what is happening! You just know he will be a virgin until he is so rich ans sucsessful he can just buy a wife :P Bless...

No show needs laugh tracks, but this could have done with an audience nevertheless, if only for an occasional applause at a right answer.

why does this show not have an audience? It's clearly scripted with gags that need a laughter track, instead it's just got awkward silences...