University Challenge S46E06 Emmanuel-Cambridge vs Nottingham 

He's kinda sweet

Saccarhine high...doubt it - most american fizzy drinks have been shown to adversely affect brain functions.

Seagull is a w****r

🤣🤣🤣

he's my maths teacher...

Is he really ?

Bobby from India Kerala Alappuzha

His book, The Life-changing Magic of Numbers, is amazing! I recommend it!

'Dig his...' - the 75 year old + demographic is still with us.

To reply on this 3 years later, the question named them as Betta Splendens so I don't think you could return the answer Betta.

@@retterkl You are right, I thought the same. Now, I'm from Costa Rica, and the only name we use here for those fish is Betta, so I thought maybe in UK they don't use it at all. The guy who answered is Canadian, so I'm guessing that's why he just answered Betta. But if Betta is also colloquial in UK, then the question may have not been phrased in the best way

I know right, I think he's cuter than Bruno

Thanks for clarifying.

What's with the new profile pictures btw? Why are so many people's a letter?

As usual the devil is in the detail - standard Oxford English Dictionary answer only - local slang is not acceptable.

Either cocky or genuinely friendly.

lol monique i swear you watch this show to suss out the guys, you're always commenting

NioNio Johny hahahah I cracked up when I heard that, poor guy is wasting his youth studying that

Hehe. All I could say was good luck finding a job with that degree.

He's obviously not studying it to get a job. And why should he, that's not the only thing university is for.

@@MatthewMcVeagh exactly: many people are born rich and do not need to work. this degree is perfect for them

@@haendel8a Even if you do need to work getting a job is not the only thing university is for. And if government and business have made it more like that, that is a sign of how education has been degraded in this country.

Check OED for standard English- that's what the producers do.

Yes, I just wants a different name and being boring, can't think anything better than my name. It's quite natural to have literatures, though, because it's richer and, quite frankly, more interesting than questions about, say, spectroscopy.

I agree. It is supposed to be academic. More like the Chase than Uni Challenge. Not a very good episode!

Haha hayo tebak?? Kok bisa ketemu ini?

Ya, terima kasih dari USA!

Ternyata kita sama ya! Salam dari Missouri

Oh banyak juga ternyata orang Indonesianya! :-) lol yeah, I've been regularly watching this series for quite a while from BBC iPlayer & RU-vid and didn't realize you were Indonesian until you changed your username.

+psimanjuntak terima kasih dari Jakarta juga....

A well-read humanities student is always better, tbh. What's more interesting is that with 28 teams (so 224 students), the lower bound of maths student is 14/224 = 6%, with 14 from each of the preliminary rounds. Usually it's about 10% (so 1 in 8, roughly). Considering that the proportion of maths student is somewhere around 2% in the UK (and slightly below that in the States), this is quite astounding. Of course, the two series ago when they had some specialist schools (LSHTM, anyone) is an abberation, but the result still stands. I for one am particularly happy about this, considering that the absolute number of maths graduate, especially in US, has gone down, even when you take into account those moving to CompSci study. For once, the stereotype might be positive.

+psimanjuntak I think you're double counting there. 28 teams is 112 teams (14 matches not 28). So that brings your proportions up to 12%, or your traditional 1 in 8

*128 students, not teams

+Richard Ah yes, thank you. In any case, they're still over-represented in this programme. Of course, this show has left almost completely the growing number of 'business' students (questionable category for in many cases questionable students, imho). So maybe, if you count such students out completely, the 12% number might be more in line with their proportion.

Check Oxford English Dictionary - Siamese Fightimg Fish - YES! All other local/regional variations - NO!

Paxman has now been quizmaster for nearly 27 years so you can chart the ageing process from 1994 to the present day.

It is when it is something like literature so you are "reading it".

The GDPWhyTea? LOL 😊

This question occurs often. From the Net: 'If you wanted to use the word "reading", the proper usage would be "I am reading for a degree in X." This is not limited to social sciences; it would apply to any degree. However, this has become something of an old-fashioned expression; it's far more common to say that you are "studying X" or "doing a degree in X'. Perhaps it's less old-fashioned than it is British English.

Oxford English Dictionary - Siamese Fighting Fish. Local and regionale variations are not standard English therefore not acceptable.

Don't know about that but the innocent excitement/enthusiasm is very Indian.

Betta etc not accepted as standard English.

He isn't, he was born and raised in England. He said when he went to Wales with Monkman that it was his first time overseas.

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moodini99 haha you can't be serious

Lol, they made the final. What a stupid comment.

Darkflower he is my maths teacher and in fact his name is actually bobby seagull

He's not even Muslim. He's Catholic. Not sure what religion has to do with this anyway

Darkflower ur thinking too outside the box what ur saying is just complete rubbish😂

Each respective college appoints their own captain, not the BBC. You stupid man

he is my fucking maths teacher