[Closed] University Challenge. Monday night

i am ashamed to admit............i do.
and mastermind too..............
and question time................
**** me, wot a sad old **** i am becoming.

Occasionally.

I can usually get a fair few correct.

Is it me or is the Mastermind General Knowledge round easier than it used to be?

I was discussing this with someone recently...do you actually need a lot of intelligence to win university challenge? If you have a good memory for facts and little intelligence then you could still win couldn't you? i.e. if you plumbed a load of facts into a computer and taught it how to retrieve answers from a question (as an expert system does (at a basic level)) then it could answer every question correctly but doesn't really have intelligence.

Hubby sits through and reals off loads of answers. I'm lucky if I correctly answer 4.

I answered almost all of the general knowledge ones on the Celebrity Children in Need Mastermind last week though.
Did I feel big headed or what?!

When asked: much like that scene in the bath tub in the Commitments, I put my success down to no longer drinking alcohol, so the rate at which I was rushing headlong into early dementia seems to have slowed right up!

Celebrity mastermind definitley has easier questions though....

Yes, I love stuff like this, I aim for about 20 but rarely get it. Like Ti29er I challenged myself against the contestants on celeb mastermind's general knowledge round, and got higher scores on all of them - had to check with Mrs NBT that it was indeed easier than normal

I'm a thickie adder when it comes to University Challenge! mr MC is normally super hot on the science questions though!

im shit but that doesnt stop me from trying me and the missus luv it

Hi,

Can't do university challenge. Off topic question for Ti29er (hope this is not uber rude), I noticed on another post that you live in watford and wondered if you wanted to hook up for a ride sometime?

Me and Mrs. Starship really look forward to the Monday night challenge of U.C.. We love the whole thing especially when Paxman gets impatient. "Come on...it's like watching paint dry."
"I NEED an answer come on."

I am rather astounded by how much knowledge the contestants have. Most of the time, the average age of a team is 20/21 and they know lots.

I'm happy to get 9 or 10 correct.

Hmmm. I'm out tonight at 8pm but will record it and watch it when I get back, and keep count of my score

We watch it.
But I do suspect that if my wife doesn't know the answer she talks over the end of the question so I can't hear it properly. She seems to get a bit of a cough too 👿

Hmmm. I'm out tonight at 8pm but will record it and watch it when I get back, and keep count of my score

Now i'll admit to watching it if I catch it when channel hoping, and I might score 4 on a good day but nbt, that sort of erm, dedication, concerns me slightly.... 😉

I love it, and I find I can answer quite a few these days. But when I was the age of the people on the teams I wouldn't have been able to answer more than the occasional question. I love the crazy maths type questions where everybody looks puzzled as if they weren't sure if that was a question, then the maths boffin pipes up "x factorial to the power minus n" or some such, and Paxo says, "of course" and gives that "just you and me understand it then" look which we all know is completely bogus. Better even than that is when Paxo mispronounces French or some word like glaucus. Tosser.

Isn't tonight the boy/girl captain?

Like almost all of the few TV programmes I watch, it's on series record. If I catch it live, then I'll delete it straight away. you got mail too, while I think on

watching it now and yes its the boy/ girl captain on....

My mate was on it, he only got one question right and that was on the wacky races!!!

Me and the O/H normally watch it - we have a mini competition to see who can get the most correct answers - 4 or 5 is normally a good night.

The captain of the winning team answered them all on his own - he didn't give his team mates the chance of joining in!

Good God!, that guy was encyclopedic in his knowledge. I thought it was ahrd this evening and struggled to score 8.

Denzil.
Just working my way back to some 1/2 respectable level of fitness.
I had about 6 weeks with only 2 rides and assumed it'd be fine to go out and expect to be AOK-ish.
It's been a horrible wake-up call as the fitness I had gained from the summer has all but evaporated and I'm having a torrid time at the mo (3 rides into it and looking at every 2 days from here on in).
A rude reminder that at 45 if I fail to keep riding I'm going to be in some considerable pain and in jeopardy of throwing away every gain I'd made if I neglect to do some cycling.

I'm in Bushey, down towards the Arches. You?

Yup, we always play too. I'm rubbish at the science questions, he's rubbish at the literature ones - combined, we do ok 🙂

I think the pressure of keeping score got to me, 2 starters and 12 bonus questions tonight.

the he-she captain was rather odd tonight
apart from the adam's apple, the broad shoulders, the jaw and the deep voice - who would have known?

Hi ti29er,

I am up in west watford, just of the ebury way so start most rides down there
, then up the canal into whippendell woods. After that sometimes up on around sarrat. On the road bike its out towards bovington. Not super fit just like being out on the bike!

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This is my 2hr loop, although I have more pics to go up once I get my act together. My 1.5hr loop in the evenings: Ebury Way-Canal-WDWoods (x3-5 laps)-Canal-Ebury Way.
I time myself from the kid's skate Park to the Ebury / canal bride. Best time being 8 minutes. Now? 9:10!
Anyhow. tim at t-f-p dot com

Cool, you come past my house. Next time you are going out let me know and we could hook up. my email is denzilcarrATgmail dot com.

I usually watch Univeristy Challenge because I'm a genuis!! 😆

Surely, you'd have been on it!

I have 2 clients, who were both opposing team captains when at Uni.on U.Challenge.
They eventually married.
There's actually UK and European League of Quizzers.

One was on MM 2 years ago, she's a GP. Specialist subject was the music of Eurasia!
I did argue that the lyrics and harmonies of Reo Speedwagon were infinitely superior to Eurasia, but she wouldn't have it!

Well, they did send me an intivation. 😆

Paxo always seems disgusted when the contestants don't know that the third foreign secretary but one following the Boer War was Sir Hugh Catchpole, and always astonished when someone knows the answer to the simplest science question.