Merton College look like series winners to me. Thomas is just okay but the trio of Peplow-Wiberg-Woodland are outstanding. Wiberg is the oldest and wisest, Peplow is quickest at the draw, and Woodland is a superb team captain: calm, measured, intelligent.
Blast! I really wanted Edinburgh to get through these rounds, but they're going to have to really up their game next time. Never mind, great match, and thanks Psi as always for providing this service. You really can't understand how much pleasure being able to watch this brings me.
Adam Walker They have been very good for a non-Oxbridge team, but now it's really starting to show... As I said, I hope they improve next time, and I wish them all the best.
As do I. But when your team reaches a stage when teams like St John's, Merton, Bristol, and their old enemies Newcastle are winning more convincingly, you *really* need to rethink your admissions on UC.
Merton will make great series winners, I hope they take it! Hopefully Edinburgh fight their way back too for a rematch :) Innis is a great contestant, this was a good year for captains
I'm surprised by how much he has anglicised the pronunciation of his surname, which would be /vibe:rj/ in Swedish. /viberg/ would do but /vaiberg/ seems excessive #pedantry.
kiloscott I think Wiberg and Peplow are neck and neck, with Woodland not far behind. Peplow might be their strongest so far, but it could swing either way on an episode basis. Also, Wiberg being their strongest player doesn’t mean Woodland wasn’t a beast.
I thought Heaton-Armstrong was quite impressive at times. When Edinburgh got those first bonuses with the subdivisions, I was pretty impressed but Merton is just a fantastically balanced team.
Eralen00 Probably because people like Woodland are meant to be students at two of the best universities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I have been seeing this phrase a lot in the comments, but I don't really get the meaning of it. Woodland IS studying at Oxford. Could you please explain it?
Ivan Samodelkin 'Meant to' was referring to the 'best'. If you study at the best Uni in the world, you should be very knowledgeable, that was the whole point. But I don't find the host harsh, I think he acts as most professors at Unis.
Merton gonna win it probably. They are very good. Woodland is incredibly fast on the thinking question starters. Carson is a great leader though, hope they make it through on their next try.
@@castelodeossos3947Dylan won the Nobel prize in 2016 (and the Academy Award fifteen years before that), and the description says this was aired in 2018. And it's unlikely that there was a two year gap between recording and airing.
C'mon Edinburgh! We want you in the semi-finals! Btw it's interesting how Sandroid has been criticising the Stone fan club & telling everyone that UC is a quiz show, not a beauty contest, yet she's just posted a comment about Wiberg's appearance! A word beginning with 'h' comes to mind - and I don't mean hippopotamus ha ha! Well done Stone in this round! Merton are scarily good.
Forgive my ignorance. First question: Who is the only person to have won both an Academy Award and Nobel Prize. I immediately answered Bob Dylan. Have they got this wrong? 2000 Oscars - Best Original Song 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature
Then if Bristol are anything like the form they've been on in rounds 1 and 2, he'll come back and implant himself possibly in Bowes. After all, what did you say about him in their match with Newcastle? Oh yes: "Excellent knowledge of useless stuff". Looks like Brainiac also used Wiberg to implant himself in Woodland and Peblow.
Adam Walker (Friggin bot). Laughed so hard just now when u quoted me :P Hmmmm great quote tho! So maybe by now u recall when Paxman binned a Reynaud/Lin - like question? Pretty pleez!
13:15 Edinburgh down 20:110, 'convenient' Irn Bru' question pops up for the Scottish team, later another convenient easy 'anther' pops up for the Bio student. Without these 2 feeder questions, Edinburgh would have ended with 55! They do not deserve to be in the QFs, UCL shouldve been battling Merton here, wouldve been way more fun too with Raiis antics.
Well, with eight different fields some of their specialities are bound to pop up. On the top of my head there was one question about chaperone proteins that fell directly to Wiberg's lap. Edinburg have also already won one quarterfinal match so they definitely are good enough, Merton just makes almost everybody seem bad in comparison. UCL might have been equally good though, small margines so who knows?
Because god knows Irn Bru is only available and known in Scotland. It was arguably the easiest question in the episode, so take issue with that if anything. Will you call out an Oxbridge team when an Oxbridge-related question bails them out? I think not.
I don't really like this format of questions. If we actually want to know which team knows more, we should ask all the questions to all of them, not to the first buzzing team only. They could all write their answers in a given period of time after conferring. The team that answers most questions would win. In the present format, it's just a question of who knows more starter questions.
Make a show of pub quiz. I haven't seen that on TV yet. Mix it up with football on the TV, some people playing pool and darts. It might work. Why not you bring your idea to a TV producer or something.
The sense of importance for starter questions as well as the relief of the bonus rounds is great dramaturgy. Your suggested format is fine (and arguably the most common in quizzes), but there’s nothing wrong with this one either.
Quite agree. Cricket, tennis and football could also do with similar changes in the rules, to rule out quick thinking as a factor. In fact, all competitions should have their format changed, to remove all and any human variables.
Funny to see Woodland dressed as some sort of high-end bartender, a job she would no doubt be rubbish at given the zero Kelvin warmth of her smiles... Stone, loose your hair, please.
