Yule & Murray 6 starters each and both contributed to the bonuses tho the loads of Lit questions were in Yule's favour. Funny how Yule only smiled when he killed the cricket bonuses while Murray more sedate when he killed Tolkien's LOTR bonuses! This episode way too easy hence the super high score of 360.
Adam Walker Aren't they all? How else would they prop up their ratings against Only Connect, Mastermind, etc.? Just the last episode Goldsmiths admitted they were crap at Science, they, Hey Presto, loads of Lit questions! Read mine and others comments per episode to keep up Lol
Well done Durham. That was a very impressive score indeed. Very strong knowledge between all members and they functioned well as a team, without anyone under or outperforming the rest.
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Durham are at least semifinalists, if not finalists. It would be smashing if they won it - makes a change from Oxbridge colleges most of the damn time - but we'll see. Definitely one for a flutter at Ladbrokes though...
Once upon a time, the US show College Bowl originated this format. Today, such a program would be impossible in America. Conversations are limited in complexity these days - and I'm in NYC, where conditions are more favorable than in many places. As our current leader would say - err, Tweet: "Sad." PS - in addition, the British panel show format (also once popular in the USA) which relies on breezy extemporaneous wit for it's own sake would as well be a non-starter. Not being an American self-hater, just sayin'
I look forward to a new posting of this show every Monday. And you are quite right: There is no show in America where contestants are encouraged to display their mettle in a fun, but serious, no-nonsense way; and should such an enterprise be attempted, it is sure to fall shy of the mark because of needless bombast, unclassy cultural quirkiness, and even, perhaps, a deficiency of academic rigor.
No reason to bag on America. Jeopardy! is probably the closest show we have to celebrates smart people. Plus, both countries have trash tv. And both countries have outstanding tv. But yes, celebrate that you have this, Only Connect, QI, and others that embrace knowledge.
Western civilization has incentives to produce the best, as is on display here, and the most base, which is on display most of the rest of the time. If you think a few dozen of the top students in the US would be outclassed here, you've been watching too much fake news.
And another match that Durham Harmonics will no doubt complain about. Only this time, *every* person in the match does first name intros (why, Durham Harmonics? Because all of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Oxford did it last year and UCL and Emmanuel College, Cambridge did it but their captains said their surnames).
Too many of the 'lighter' questions are male- oriented and focus on male sports- football and cricket. I think UC needs to review bias in its questions.
Sure but saying some sports are male oriented, you are yourself making a bias. Who says women can’t play football or cricket? Sports doesn’t have a gender, relax. You’re just looking for something to complain about.
I've been away for a few seasons and I've just been noticing quite a few categories about women's achievement, people of colour etc, not that i mind that they are the answers , it's just interesting that they started categorizing in that manner. So instead of having a more general category and then narrowing it down by the question, they have already narrowed it down by the category. I.E; ("category (sometimes including nationality)" + "question (often including nationality)" + "clue clue clue"), are instead; ("category (nationality/gender/ethnicity/sexuality)" + "question" + "clue clue clue"). So the contestants have more information to go by, for those categories, before they get the clues. I then, admittedly, a bit provokingly, concluded that it had to be the SJW's because they seem to be obsessed with the segmentation of society and life into gender, sexuality and ethnicity.
@@Tom135 ..The show is called University Challenge. The contestants are elite students of the finest institutions of higher learning in the nation. I make the assumption that the 'challenge' is to answer questions that exhibit what they have learned in the course of their studies. So I repeat: I do not see how questions about football are appropriate for this sort of test of academic knowledge. Statistics about Cricket is a subject for a pub quiz.
Sandroid *insert speech bubble here* "Oh, here we go. Another man who sees this series as a beauty contest and will no doubt see the next Stone." Durham Harmonics: *insert speech bubble here* "I agree. BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISQUALIFIED FOR THEIR STUPID FIRST NAME INTROS! SAY! YPUR! SURNAMES!" (that last part is best imagined as "Start! Your! ENGINES!"
