>is the best quiz show on tv
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 questionJust like Mastermind and Only Connect
>>217453563it sucks ass you dont know what theyre talking about 99% of the time
>>217453563>bunch of fags, troons and chinksyikes
>>217453563propa british roses in that top row innit
Impressive. Very Nice. Let's see London Metropolitan's team.
>>217453628bit of a self report here anon
>>217453627It 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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>>217453627i 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
>>217453802it peaked with hapax legomenon
>>217453563I'm too retarded to watch it, cant answer any of the questions. I think im sub 100 IQ
>>217453627The Mastermind general knowledge rounds are fairly easy a lot of the time
>>217453735It insists upon itself
>>217453993this. the specialist subject rounds make for shit tv but general knowledge is 90% freebieswhat would your specialist subjects be anons? mine would be either pokemon or cold war-era US foreign policy.
>>217453563Fuck Oxford and Cambridge for getting more teams than other unis.>>217453735Send 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.
>>217454039cant 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 seriesStarts at about 10:15>https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0029m3c/mastermind-202425-episode-26
>>217454059The 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.
>>217454162not 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
>>217454162It 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
>>217453627My 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
>>217453563but 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% Asianstupid 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>>217453627The 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.
>>217454309He 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.>>217454425Did 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
>>217453563Wrong, it's SCTV Half Wits with Martin Short, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and Joe Flaherty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDsJd1l7Aw
I... I was on University Challenge. Back in the Paxman days.
>>217454087Validation via meme
>>217453563Wrong 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!
>>217454709see >>217453735
>>217453563Oh 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.
>>217454529https://youtu.be/hWxrj8PupAA?t=239I 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?
>>217454685These guys were amazing live, like top 5 concert of all time
>>217454059I was on Mastermind a few years back, won't reveal my specialist subjects but one was /tv/ relatedIf 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
>>217455251What are the rules for specialist subjects? There are definitely film/tv/vidya series I could do but for some of them id have to set a narrow scope to exclude other aspects. Like for the pokemon example, if you just said "pokemon" you'd get ashnime shite. Could you say "the mainline pokemon video game series" or are you prevented from keeping it narrow like that
>>217455809>"Musician Ed Sheeran provided a song for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. What was that song's title?"
>>217455926That ones burned into my head because it was memed so hard>ah shit can't believe my mum was actually dead and a robot and then died again>this is so sad. Alexa play celestial by Ed sheeran
>>217455251I was on The Chase, got through to the final with one other person who won £2000 less than me in their round. Not fussed though as we made a good team against Paul Sinna. We won and he actually stormed off the set, as it was two pushbacks in the last 10 seconds or so that won it for us in the end. I spent my money on a trip to Japan with my wife.I would recommend it too; even if I hadn't won, I had a fun day out doing a quiz for real rather than just shouting out answers at the telly.
>>217455809You are the guy who had the people who did the Hippopotamus Song as his specialist subject and won the final. Do I win £5?
>>217456009Did you meet braldey wash?
>>217456028i've got a porsche
It's just a tad too hard. Same as only connect. Just dial it down one notch for me. What I like the most however is the momentum, it's actually speedy and just pure questions, no fluff.
It is funny when there's an odd round on a topic like gaming and you absolutely smoke them. I remember answering one about kentucky route zero (never played) seemed quite an obscure game to ask a 5 pointer on.
>>217456088No, his parts are filmed separately and CGIed in later.
University Challenge waifus hit differentwhy was I cursed to be a pea brained pleb incapable of retaining information
>>217456088Yes. Fun fact as well, he has a little man cave for him to relax in between takes, underneath the chasers platform. Its like one of those little example rooms in IKEA, with a nice comfy armchair and 3 wall-papered walls.
>>217453563>IN 1972 WHO SCORED THE MOST POINTS IN THE LARGEST CRICKET TOURNAMENT IN INDIAgo fuck yourself
>>217454438UC is intentionally and objectively difficult, who do you think you're fooling?
ideal UC team in terms of degrees: history, music, physics, Eng lit.also why is the team member on the far left always an absolute beast who gets the obscure questions, and the one on the far right completely useless?
>>217456533>also why is the team member on the far left always an absolute beast who gets the obscure questions, and the one on the far right completely useless?Mirrors politics
>>217453627Even the retards I work with manage to get one or two an episode. Usually there will be a good few rounds where the answer to the third question is the most obvious one that everyone has heard of, e.g. a set to do with Russian composers, number 3 is Tchaikovsky, or popes and the third is JP2.>>217456407Some fairly rapeable qts on UC and OC this year, and the Christmas UC. I didn't like that it was the same people over again on the Christmas series. And I don't like that they no longer show the "celebrities'" old uni photos, I guess they did it because of trans people, but I still miss it.
