5:26 Hosegood: - "Venus?" Paxman: - "Correct" Me, with a serious face: - "Venus?! What the heck sort of planet starts with the letter 'E'?!" My brain, thinking we're playing Jeopardy: - "What is 'Earth'?" ...and this is why l should be invited to Universally Challenged. Me, at Universally Challenged: - "Hello. l'm _Earth?_ and l'm studying to be a _Earth?_ and l'm from _Medicine_ "
Also, it would be really nice to see a non-Oxbridge team in the finals. Bristol have got a chance to do that, I think, but it will be interesting to see if they can actually pull it off...
Bristol were ok but they're conversion rate is pretty low, and consistenly so across all their matches. I think more realistically Newcastle might be a better punt for a non Oxbridge final team. I still feel we will end up with John's versus Merton, I wouldn't rule out Fitzwilliam.
Their conversion rate was much better this game, and I'm betting it will get better. They've got the range of studies to make something special happen, so let's see,,,
One of the very rare episodes where I feel like I would have actually scored some significant points. Ulster didn't have a good day, I don't even think Bristol were outstanding, just no resistance from the other side.
Lukas Maria aus Wien Come on,Bristol is good,proved by the score.They have all fast buzz and Ulster just don't in the mood.It is not nice to said they were not outstanding.Every team that make it to this stage is a great team and Bristol win it with their knowledge.
Recently, he disallowed the answer "potash," saying the answer was potassium. What his card should have allowed for was the fact that they are synonyms. In fact, I was surprised to learn that the fancy-sounding name potassium was taken from potash, the ash from fireplaces that is high in potash, an answer he should have accepted. In this video, he disallows the answer "cerebrum," saying, "no, the cerebral cortex." Tweedle-dee-DUM!
That's because Cerebrum and Cerebral Cortex are 2 different things. The Cerebral Cortex is part of the Cerebrum (which is most of the brain). He asked specifically for "the layer of gray matter that covers the superior surface of the brain." Now, as to the potassium question, I remember it coming up, but not the exact wording of the question; however, keep in mind that most of these questions require them to answer using terminology that is very specific, even if there are synonyms for the same term, so it could be that they just didn't provide the specific term that was asked for
I'm glad they lost. I feel it's almost cheating when the team's average age is more than double that of the rest. Good on them for trying, but I think it was time for them to go.
For the first round, if you were talking about African winners of the Nobel Prize, I guessed J M Coetzee as one of the answers. I have no idea what he has actually done, only that he has been well rewarded for doing it, and he is African. Not a great way to guess an answer, but hey - it worked...
100 percent agree there. I just found it a bit jarring guessing an answer with no real basis for the guess. As you say, it all counts, no matter how you get there.
Joseph Karl Actually you do have a basis for your guess. Many people wouldn't even know the name J. M Coetze. You do and knew that he was a possible answer to the question means it was an educated guess, a term I often hear used wrongly in quiz shows but which is legitimate in this case. I often get a question right and afterwards think "how the hell did I know that"! Many correct guesses come from deep in your subconscious.
That's how you have to play this game, at times, using Occam's razor/method of exclusion. It's just like in quizzes like WWTBAM where you're provided with alternatives, 80% is general knowledge, 20% is strategy and psychology. Whenever someone buzzes in early and misses, then the opposing team listens to the full question, they'll usually take a punt just like you did. Same goes for all of the follow-up questions on which they aren't 100% sure.
When you're 'University Challenge & Reclinin' with Hosegood and he gives you that look. Would you let him Castanea you? Me: ○ Yes ○ No ● Prefer not to answer 😉
Castanea is the genus of the chestnut. 'Chest nut' ...Get it? XD lt's a dirty joke that l came up with where even Paxman could get a good chuckle out of it. XD
David Lightman m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E2t4MBhGAg8.html m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZeO2Z8lGiYk.html (to 0:35 only on the video linked)
I don't know honestly. Maybe their age, they were much older and it just seems like that's not in the spirit of the game (I know it is and that they're students, but still).
I felt similarly when I started watching, but you'll find older teams' advantages are nearly without fail *more than offset* by their disadvantages (it takes a while to scan those memory banks, to go along with being both slower and more tentative to hit the buzzer)
I'm happy that Bristol beat the oldsters so decisively. It's irrational, but I'm with those who think this competition should be for youngish teams. And I say that as an oldster myself (& as someone who got their undergrad degree as "a mature student").
