annoys me because I want to a shit uni for my undergrad but I could merk half these fools

>Is too hard for the average person to answer a single question

Just like Mastermind and Only Connect

>>217453563
it sucks ass you dont know what theyre talking about 99% of the time

>>217453563
>bunch of fags, troons and chinks
yikes

>>217453563
propa british roses in that top row innit

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Impressive. Very Nice. Let's see London Metropolitan's team.

>>217453628
bit of a self report here anon

>>217453627
It also feels deserved, like on other quiz programs they ask who was the fifth actor of the character Wizzy Wally and I'm like who the fuck is that

>>217453563
>bonus round on "famous" women
>zero points

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>>217453627
i doubt anyone else has noticed/cared but i feel quite strongly about the decline in only connect question quality over the past 2-3 seasons

I like to compete with my gf on who can answer the most questions in UC but she braps in my face and puts me off

University Challenge peaked with that season with that cool American dude called Brandon

>>217453802
it peaked with hapax legomenon

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>>217453563
I'm too retarded to watch it, cant answer any of the questions. I think im sub 100 IQ

>>217453627
The Mastermind general knowledge rounds are fairly easy a lot of the time

>>217453735
It insists upon itself

>>217453993
this. the specialist subject rounds make for shit tv but general knowledge is 90% freebies

what would your specialist subjects be anons? mine would be either pokemon or cold war-era US foreign policy.

>>217453563
Fuck Oxford and Cambridge for getting more teams than other unis.

>>217453735
Send them a letter or an email. If you feel that strongly about it you could submit a list of questions you came up with and they'd probably hire you.

>>217454039
cant tell if youre memeing or if i should feel validated that its not just me thats noticed

Mastermind is shit because half of the questions are on some bullshit nobody cares about like Brighton and Hove Women's Rugby club's 2002 season

Some redditor chose The Legend of Zelda as their specialist subject and I think the questions were tough/demanded a high amount of autism because the question writers weren't familiar with the series
Starts at about 10:15
>https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0029m3c/mastermind-202425-episode-26

>>217454059
The trick is to pick a topic where there's only two or three definitive references, so you can just bone up on those and know that almost all the questions will be based on the information in them.

>>217454162
not very familiar with zelda so i cant say for sure how difficult these are but nothing seems super egregious since its all within the games. the real fuckers are the ones where they ask questions about real-life stuff surrounding a series' production. there was nothing in there i dont think youd get from autistically having played a shitload of zelda. i do agree vidya is more of a risk since therell be fossil question setters who know fuck all about it

every question i've just got the answer egg

>>217454162
It is always funny to see someone pick something because they've seen the movie or played the game or whatever something they're a fan of, then they've clearly done absolutely no boning up

>>217454059
>what would your specialist subjects be anons?
/tv/ memes

>>217453627

My neat little trick to doing well in UC is to not be educated under the American schooling system, hope this helps.

W E N E E D J U N G L E I ' M A F R A I D

>>217453563
but that's not big fat quiz??

Don't even know what the questions mean half of the time, and the real questions are never asked:
>why do you autistically sip water every time you've answered a question
>why didnt you shower before coming on the show
>do you have a handicap or are you just very ugly
>why is 50% Asian
stupid show

>those retarded questions about random nigger writers in the 60's nobody has ever heard of that the quiz writers are forced to include for the sake of diversity that the teams end up passing anyway

>>217453563
>>217453627
The questions regarding music, films, art, literature (as long as it's not "what's the name of this character that shows up in the third act of the particular Shakespeare play"), historical stuff (as long as it's not super specific UK history), aren't so bad. I've caught myself screaming shit like "how do these losers not know who Yasunari Kawabata or Georges Perec are?" at the screen a few times. However, everything relating to STEM is basically impossible to me. The moment you say a word like genus I'm completely lost.

>>217454309
He got the easy ones right but yeah you'd have to be paying a lot of attention to remember the names of items and NPCs that only appear a handful times.
Then again, if I was a boomer quiz writer coming up with things to ask in a semifinal I'd probably expect that to be reasonable enough.

>>217454425
Did you see Troy "I'm better than Peter Crouch" Deeney on Celebrity Mastermind a few years back?
His specialist subject was Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, you /tv/ aficionados might be able to beat his score.
>https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tlgf/celebrity-mastermind-202324-episode-6

>>217453563
Wrong, it's

SCTV Half Wits with Martin Short, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and Joe Flaherty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDsJd1l7Aw

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I... I was on University Challenge. Back in the Paxman days.

>>217454087
Validation via meme

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>>217453563
Wrong pic, OP.

>>217454438
>the answer is warbyderwickshire county
>the answer is piddlywiddle creek
>the answer is east anglillipuddian county
>the answer is trenton-on-fenton-on-stoke (population: 300)
>dumb americans, these ones are so easy!

>>217454709
see >>217453735

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>>217453563
Oh shit, it's ma boi Harrison.
I guess that's why he was so dominant on jeopardy. Still prefer jeopardy, it's comfy and everyone at home can play along.

>>217454529
https://youtu.be/hWxrj8PupAA?t=239
I remember particularly puzzled at the fact that they knew plenty of esoteric stuff, but not Aguirre, the Wrath of God. That's a famous film, is it not?

>>217454685
These guys were amazing live, like top 5 concert of all time

>>217454059

I was on Mastermind a few years back, won't reveal my specialist subjects but one was /tv/ related

If anyone has an autistic level of knowledge in one or more subjects and has ever considered it, I fully recommend giving it a try, was a fun experience