What a tremendous performance from the victors. Dare I say it was an Open-and-shut case! Gavaghan on fire once again, while Davidson has a truly freakish range of knowledge, and is sheer lightning on the buzzer. A team to be reckoned with for sure.
I really like how Gavaghan plays, seems to be a good captain. And armed with Davidson, this team can win it all. He's superb. The rest of the team seem reliable and solid, they'll just take some more points left after the two leaders.
I think this was the best demonstration of why James Davidson was a finalist on Mastermind last year 🧠💪 - Mind you, everyone got at least one starter-for-ten right again which is great to see. The losers sadly couldn't really match up on the buzzer or bonuses to the winners - great match though - long may it continue :).
Thanks CosmicP, as always! Open did splendidly! Davidson is a star on anything "cultural", of which there seemed to be a lot of questions tonight. Captain G runs a fast and efficient ship!!
One of my highlights of the week, thanks uploading each week. Davidson gave a brilliant performance, Romans, Holt and Gavaghan did well too, well done.
Ran across this in Steve Coogan's new book "Alan Partridge: Big Beacon": "Amol Rajan says I'm like a swan in a suit. And this is a man who knows about a breezy style of broadcasting, since he has a chronic mumble and lazily runs two, three, sometimes four words together at a time -- a trait that sounds like poor diction but is in fact a deliberate affectation to appear more chilled out. In real life he couldn't be clearer and has a clipped manner reminiscent of the speaking clock"
@@codyobaker as far as art and literature goes he is one of the most insane contestants I have ever seen on this show. His knowledge of literature is comparable to Zeng's knowledge of Geography. Overall Hutchinson is still the most insane candidate I have ever seen because of his sheer breadth of Knowledge.
Very fast paced , exciting match! Open was an outstanding team and UEA not too shabby...well done to all the players. Thanks for our weekly fix..always so disappointed when l hear the gong at the end 😟
CosmicP: Thank you so much! You rule my world! Now we know that the last round wasn't a fluke and that the Open University is a very serious contender. The speed at which they went about things was absolutely breathtaking. I think they are the fastest we have ever seen. Oh, and Davidson is a machine! Absolutely stunning! I think in thiys year's competition, the Open University is the most excting team.
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin1 Just now getting around to watching this on Friday, been a busy week. And the winning team was busy, too. Busy answering questions. I said in their last match that with the right questions, they could win it all. If anything, they seem to have expanded their knowledge base. If this keeps up, they could be series winners. Bad luck to the losing team to run up against a juggernaught so soon. My best to both teams, and each indivual.
What a great match!! Winners, if you're reading this, best of luck to you all in getting through. I really hope you do. Thanks very much, CP - really enjoying this series. What would we do without you? 💞
Funny how the two teams from the repechage are killing it. I guess that means also that the teams that defeated them in the first place are going to be powerful opponents in the future
I certainly think Hertford will have something to offer - even though it's my alma mater I'm not as sure about Manchester, but we'll just have to see. Hertford does I think have a nasty draw playing UCL in just under two weeks' time, and I don't think it'll be any easier for Manchester whomever they play - makes for compelling viewing though :).
First time I watch this competition. I would think that a team that lost in the narrowest margine (sort of) and than beat another team that lost in a narrow margin/scored high, will be predicted to be very strong. Go advance the recouche round they had competed with every other loser, and beaten the best of the losers. That’s a stronger screening than beating one team. Isn’t that a common phenomenon?
Yes ☺ - she was a member of the Harlequins that reached the QFs in the series last year. That team also had John Robinson as their captain (£500,000 winner on WWTBAM in 2019 and QF'ist with Birmingham on UC in 2021-22) and Michael Joel Bartelle as the third member (captain of the same Birmingham team that reached the 2021-22 QF's of UC).
How many English literature questions can you give in one session? I have never seen a round with as many book related questions as this one. They practically gave the eng lit student the win.
I'm always slightly sceptical of teams where one player does most of the heavy lifting. While the rest of the team are good, I fear Open will go as far as Davidson can carry them. RGU last series were similar.
Sssh! "Geopolitics since WW2" ? A very long-overdue and uniquely(existentially!) crucial category of questions finally seems to have been (very tentatively/quietly) given the green light in this series with our new, young-ish post-Paxman question-master: It's certainly high time to fill this chasmic knowledge, intelligence and Q&A void...but what a minefield it'll inevitably/hopefully prove to be if the last 75 years of tumultuous geopolitics is allowed to feature permanently - right up there with...pop-music. Paul G
@@333cale Same reason college players in any sport have to be amateurs to play in the NCAA. Plus, she was also a staffer for NeoCon Warmonger Hillary Clinton when Cackling Hillary was in the US Senate, so not really expecting much in the way of ethics.
"returns zero if and only if both are zero otherwise it returns one" My answer was also NOR but I didn't think anything of if.I don;t think it is NOR. OR seems correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOR_gate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR_gate
made same mistake as you at first. The phrasing is "which 2 input logic gate returns 0 iff both inputs are 0, otherwise it returns 1" which is OR. If either input is 1, the output is 1.
