Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! Really appreciate you doing this for us non-UK residents! A great match for a good bit, the winning team was just more knowledgeable about the questions asked. I saw very few instances where the winning team had to be quicker on the buzzer. If anything, it was individuals on the winning team out-buzzing each other. That said, it was a good effort by both teams, and my best to each contestant.
Chris Hobbs! It's great to see you over here, just catching up on the season after finding this new uploader (hooray!). Hope whatever you had for dinner today was delicious.
Eloquent? His pronunciation is erratic - he misses off some (but not all) "t"s at the end of words; he often pronounces "th" as a "v" or an "f", and he sometimes even makes a glottal stop for "tt" in the middle of a word. You've got a funny definition of "eloquent".
@@robertmatthews4397 I don’t think you have an understanding of the meaning of eloquent. It has nothing to do with pronunciation. So, I argue that is you with a funny definition of eloquent. So funny that it is, in fact wrong.
@@kevinnndon Try looking in a dictionary before you accuse someone of not knowing what a word means. Here is the relevant part of the definition of "eloquent" in Wiktionary: "articulate, well-spoken; effective in expressing meaning by speech". My gripe, and that of others to whom I have spoken, is that the presenter's erratic mispronunciations make him difficult to understand (ie not articulate, well-spoken or effective in expressing meaning by speech). I once heard him use a word unknown to me - sahinabo - which I later worked out was "sat in a boat". This is not good when rapidity of response is one of the key ingredients of this particular quiz. "Eloquent" also means "persuasive" and I wonder if that is the only part of the meaning you know.
Far fewer comments this season. There must be quite a few David Garda subscribers who have not yet found magicpumpkin. Long live the memory of David Garda. Thank you magicpumpkin for picking up the mantle so I can watch UC in Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A.
Many thanks for doing this, for all the fans out there. Who do not watch BBC. Also, thanks for doing the subtitles. Us, "hard of hearing," would be lost without them...
Thank you for the upload and for also including subtitles! Good match today, it looked like it was going to be very close but the winning team pulled away. I don’t think we’ll be seeing the other one in the repechage but who knows 😊
Eisler is the one to look out for in the future matches. Even the Captain trusted him when he didn't know 😂. It was a close match at the beginning but Aberdeen took the lead and a few negatives from Birmingham made the difference. Bennett was really good too and would hope they can make a comeback in the repechage.
@@XoIoRouge We're not quite as sly as that. We did tell Obsorne to nominate freely though, since it costs nothing and saves the team from losing points if the captain mishears an answer or isn't sure of the pronunciation (you'll see in our next match that this is a very real risk). She may have taken this policy too far when she nominated me to give an answer I didn't actually know, but we got a funny moment out of it at least.
Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin! Really enjoyable episode tonight. Unusual to get such modern music as well; I'd have been better suited to the classics! But happy with my own score tonight. Aberdeen look a decent team
He definitely does not pronounce or articulate well: he misses off some (but not all) "t"s at the end of words; he often pronounces "th" as a "v" or an "f", and he sometimes even makes a glottal stop for "tt" in the middle of a word.
@@ProuvaireJean I can't believe you made me rewatch the whole thing instead of just pointing me to the Britten buzz :P. Yeah that was a near instant get as well. Two great displays of ear speed to kick off the season.
Nearly fell off my chair at 17:53, that’s my island 🏝️ of Timor, divided between two countries- my beloved Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 and Indonesia. Bennett was right all along
Such a shame for Birmingham - they were pipped at the post. Osborne was a bit abrasive on the other side 'I'm not the medic!!!!' No, but you're the captain so you should be a bit more encouraging. Great game, though.
Seems like the correct content to be snarky on, especially considering your snark towards her, but the thing that follows "let alone" is supposed to be more implausible.
Ha ha ha, Noel Coward wrote 'The Lady in the Van' and she was called Madame Arcati (16:33); the Baroque painter Vermeer famous for domestic interiors painted a naval battle (21:18); Matisse painted the pop-art 'Vesuvius' (22:13). Sometimes the guesses are really funny. At 25:50, the quiz master expresses surprise at an answer, which when Mr Paxman did it was termed rude/abrasive/ arrogant, etc., by the anti-Paxman crowd. (Plantains are of the genus Musa, indigenous to Southeast Asia).
23:55 25:28 There are better ways to screw up on University Challenge than as an Indian fucking up two India-specific starters. At least he got the next one, about Ramanujan.
The questions don't seem as interesting as they used to be, they seem much more prosaic. I remember in the past being struck by the obvious effort that went into constructing questions that were almost poetic. Is it just me thinking that?
Why so many picture rounds involving foreign languages? How are you supposed to engage in them? And when the music round concerns albums of the 20-tens, I know it's nearly time to drop out of the quiz.
@@dennisw8868 I didn't say it wasn't deserving. I just don't have a clue about 'pop' music from the turn of the millenium (with good reason). It was a way of saying I'm getting too old for student quizzes.
The Brothers Grimm question isn't impossible for those with no knowledge of German. "Rumpelstilzchen" obviously corresponds to the English Rumpelstiltskin, which should tell you that you're looking at a collection of fairy tales. Which 19th century authors are known for collecting fairy tales?
@@zacharyeisler3870 If you are the young man from the quiz, then I'm guessing that you had an advantage over me anyway (German ancestry?). In truth, I would have needed much longer to have arrived at the 'obvious' conclusion. You were far too quick for me. Well done.
