Just found out that I finished watching this episode in another RU-vid channel, thinking it was your upload. Still, came here to rewatch because Psiman=University Challenge.
Woodland was unashamedly 'fed' Physics/Maths questions, 4 to be exact. I hope she is as 'strong' in future rounds on other topics as well. Her 5th was famous Russian rivers, easy peasy.
Merton and King were both great. Merton may go far but they will have to face some stronger teams to have their mettle tested. Also funny how Woodland looked like she was about to cry throughout the whole episode. Thanks for the upload psi!!
"Pryer not only failed to buzz in to answer the geography questions, at 26:43 he confidently says "darjeeling" and gets a well deserved death stare from the brilliant captain of King's.."
So much for the claim that teams with older players have an unfair advantage on the teams made up of 20 year olds. (Actually, the trick seems to be to have one slightly older PhD student mixed in with a bunch of twenty year olds.)
The questions were really easy, especially the starters, which makes Merton stronger than they seem. It's gonna be St. Hugh's, St. Anne's, UCL, and Ulster for the losers playoffs then.
Can't speak for Booth as you do :P but FOUR/21 were Physics/Maths starters with just the one Physics student lapping them up ... or 70 points worth of Art when Courtauld appeared yet this week not a single Art question ... etc. etc. Feel free to check my previous posts citing facts n stats, not opinion.
I cringed all 4 times Woodland correctly answered the maths/physics questions ... she didn't look too happy either. BBC yet again forcing an outcome. Questions were pretty easy so the outcome was down to the quicker buzzer fingers, obviously the game-playing 'average age 23' year-olds, not the 'average age 40' year-olds. Certainly NOT a level playing field. And what's with ALL 4 Shakespeare sonnets? Haven't the question setters heard of Donne,.Wordsworth, Keats, Rossetti et al?
