Absolute carry-job from Broadbent at times there! Open are a very likeable team and unfortunate not to make it through the first time. Thanks as always, Pumpkin 🎃😁 A very appropriate username given the time of year!
Such a shame Oxford Brookes couldn't make it! I was really rooting for them as the underdog in the overall competition, although props to Open University for really improving their performance since last time. Really surprising. I really thought it was going to go the other way.
Wow Open absolutely smashed that. I always enjoy rooting for them since they are often a more diverse group of majors and ages but typically their performance is middling but this years team has some serious chops.
I found 20 pairs of states that have a last-two/first-two connection, and only the three they gave border each other. Next closest is Wisconsin and Indiana; they both border Illinois and Michigan but not each other. In the pairings, there's a string of 5 (Alabama, Maine, New Mexico, Connecticut, Utah), but no infinite loops.
A complete shocking performance from Brookes I would say after being the highest scoring loser in the 1st round. But Broadbent did exceptionally well and almost carried the team. They were looking for a comeback but my gid what a performance from Davidson! He was so quick on the buzzer and was knowledgeable on the bonuses as well. The Captain of Open University is amazing as well and listens to her team very well. Hoped that Brookes would be in the semis after their performance in the 1st round but Open changed that.
Incredible performance by the right half of the winning team, with good support. Does feel like the questions fell right for them... felt like lots of film and arts stuff. We'll see going forward if that feeling is mistaken. They certainly could contend.
What a great way to close out the first round :) - that's our sixth game of the year with an aggregate of 400+. Strangely Oxford Brookes answered as many starters as their first game - their bonus rate wasn't quite as good as last time though. Warwick vs Trinity next week to begin what looks like a fiery bloodbath of a second round ❤🔥 - the way scores have fallen it will be far from the first stacked game we'll see over the next few weeks 😍.
Exciting match! Great work by G and D in the Open team...good knowledge. Oxford Brookes a bit lethargic except for Broadbent...liked his personality a lot! Thanks for this eagerly awaited weekly video😀
Agreed! When I ehar "Edinburgh Festival" I think of the International Festival, which was Edinburgh's first festival and is the high-brow counterpoint to the Festival Fringe.
Pumpkin, thanks for posting these shows! This episode S53E16 is missing from the playlist for the series and is a bit difficult to find. You might want to add it.
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! Once again, I played my pre-match game of picking who I thought would win, and once again, I was wrong. So, so wrong. This was a runaway, and I'm still scratching my head over the winning team's previous match loss. Were their opponents just that good? Or did they just improve from first to second match? With the right set of questions, this team can beat any other. The losing team never had a chance in this, and they were a very likeable team. My best to each team, and to each individual.
Thanks again CosmicPumpkin. I think I'm only nine months behind 😁 Is it just me or does Gavaghan have a N. American accent? She says she's from London. Maybe she means London, Ontario, Canada.
Thanks CosmicPumpkin, appreciated by those of us not allowed to watch live TV because we don't pay the BBC for the privilege, and it's a criminal offence if we do. Disgraceful. Impressive win, literally a smashing score. Hard luck for the losers coming up against a team they probably underestimated.
When I was in high school, we had a quiz in French class about theater terms. For setting, I wrote mise en scene. I was marked wrong and when I questioned it the teacher said the answer should have been lieu. Was I wrong? Well, at least I know what mise en scene means.
I haven't watched for a very long time, but have they changed the rules about interrupting the question with their answer? I thought it always used to be that they had to wait.
There would be no point to disallowing interruptions in the bonus questions. The team answering the questions is not competing against the other team as they are in the starter questions (the penalty for wrong answers that interrupt is weighed against the advantage in buzzing in at the earliest possible moment) so whether they wait till the end of the question or interrupt it is entirely up to them.
The question was about the common name, so it's correct. Biologically, it's not a bear, but commonly it is known as a "bear". A coconut is not a nut, but who cares.
In Australia they are only known as Koala, we never say koala bear. Tourists and other countries persist in calling them by the incorrect term. They will catch on eventually
Extremely disappointing performance from Oxford Brookes! Their captain looked as if he was on holiday, and gave off unbelievably leisurely vibes. Most times he seemed more interested in scanning his surroundings and smiling benignly at his teammates than in answering questions. Broadbent and Gardner made for a striking contrast, but got going too late. Congrats to the Open University, who looked so incredibly switched on, they could have powered an entire village with their energy. I cannot wait to see them again!
Nobody has agreed to anything. Rule no 1: don't look at the comments until you have watched the video. The board is normally used to discuss the video, which is impossible to do without menitoning the result.
Well, to quote Wikipedia "The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), sometimes called koala bear". Both Koala and Koala Bear refer to Phascolarctos cinereus. The question was not "Is the Koala a bear?".
Au contraire, she is attractive in so many ways. Looking deep into those limpid eyes through those enormous lenses, she would mesmerise you with her voice, dazzle you with her intellect, and bewitch you with her inner beauty. An afternoon in her company would be well spent. I must confess also being somewhat taken with her physical appearance, but that is a secondary consideration.
A KOALA IS NOT A BEAR and I cannot believe that Uni Challenge accepted the answer given (and then had the host confirm it). The koala is a marsupial. It's closest living relative is a wombat, which is also a marsupial and also not a bloody bear. For a show that's all about high-level intellectual rigour this is a massive error. Do better, UC.
I don't care what incorrect term people use, I expect the question setters on University Challenge to require contestants to answer their questions correctly. @@vig6321
The show is edited for television, there's a high chance that they speed some things up in the process. I remember reading a few years ago that Paxman himself said that they will cut chunks out if neither team knows any answers over a long period of time!
I noticed that Gavaghan did not confer regarding her answers but I took it merely as an indication that she was confident about her responses and didn’t need to confer. (Sometimes you just know the answer.) That she didn’t lose any points while not conferring was consistent with that impression.
I liked that the captioner wrote “cross talk” when Open were conferring in that picture round about crosses.
Broadbent nailing the Minimoog questions from 13:10 onwards - I see he is a man of culture as well!
Goya's famous work "Gavaghan Devouring the Competetion" 👍
And they got 2 of 6 art bonus question. Canadian Irony.
Really like Open. Also, Rajan is such a good host, I love his little remarks.
Oooof I really felt for Gardner not remembering Sasha Fierce
Gavaghan's glasses are iconic
Like the glasses Denis Taylor the snooker player used to wear.
She’s a real character in the best possible sense.
Broadbent seems like such a pleasant fellow 😅
He and Gardner would make a lovely couple.
Yes! Was just about to comment! He seems like a lovely lad!
He really does!
Man was absolutely on fire, only if others showed up
I know him and can confirm he is a stellar guy
Absolute carry-job from Broadbent at times there! Open are a very likeable team and unfortunate not to make it through the first time. Thanks as always, Pumpkin 🎃😁 A very appropriate username given the time of year!
I will miss Broadbent's hilariously expressive face but a fantastic performance by Open nonetheless.
I wonder if we’ll see Broadbent on Mastermind.
He really relished the music round did he not?
Great performance by Open, which some in Academia still look at with disdain.
Davidson the ice cold killer what a game.
Amol is such a good host. You can really tell he loves being there.
MATCH STATS BELOW
*Oxford Brookes : 155*
*Open : 255*
*Starter Questions Stats*
OXFORD BROOKES : 85
Caldecott = 0
Gardner = 1/1 {10}
Manton = 2/3 {20 minus 5}
Broadbent = 6/8 {60}
Starter Success Rate : 75.00%
OPEN : 125
Romans = 1/3 {10 minus 5}
Holt = 2/2 {20}
Gavaghan = 4/6 {40}
Davidson = 6/6 {60}
Starter Success Rate: 76.47%
*Bonus Questions Stats*
OXFORD BROOKES : 70
Bonus Success Rate : 51.85% (14/27)
OPEN : 130
Bonus Success Rate : 68.42% (26/38)
OMG Open! Extremely impressive. This year's contest is gonna blow up!
Gardner is a baddie
😭😭
fr i think i'm in love
Such a shame Oxford Brookes couldn't make it! I was really rooting for them as the underdog in the overall competition, although props to Open University for really improving their performance since last time. Really surprising. I really thought it was going to go the other way.
They didn't improve. They just didn't have Keskin on the other side
"And you may answer in English or Latin." I nearly fell off my chair.
In Latin, Fabius Cunctator. I knew that!
Me, too! I would have thought that Latin _only_ would be allowed.
Actually this is one of the few questions I knew, because "cunctator" is a device in Terry Pratchet's Thief of Time.
Wow Open absolutely smashed that. I always enjoy rooting for them since they are often a more diverse group of majors and ages but typically their performance is middling but this years team has some serious chops.
I love how Broadbent always sounds like the answer is super obvious and he's annoyed by the fact that you don't know it
Also: Who knew that so many adjoining States had that particular letter combination going on? That round was a real eye opener for me 😄
I found 20 pairs of states that have a last-two/first-two connection, and only the three they gave border each other. Next closest is Wisconsin and Indiana; they both border Illinois and Michigan but not each other.
In the pairings, there's a string of 5 (Alabama, Maine, New Mexico, Connecticut, Utah), but no infinite loops.
@@jwolfe01234 Good Lord 😄 I really have learned something new today. Many thanks for the information!
FABULOUS match!! Well done to the winners - you were on fire! Congrats to the team (hi Ellie)! Great teamwork! Can't wait for the next round.
A complete shocking performance from Brookes I would say after being the highest scoring loser in the 1st round. But Broadbent did exceptionally well and almost carried the team. They were looking for a comeback but my gid what a performance from Davidson! He was so quick on the buzzer and was knowledgeable on the bonuses as well. The Captain of Open University is amazing as well and listens to her team very well. Hoped that Brookes would be in the semis after their performance in the 1st round but Open changed that.
Incredible performance by the right half of the winning team, with good support.
Does feel like the questions fell right for them... felt like lots of film and arts stuff. We'll see going forward if that feeling is mistaken. They certainly could contend.
I am enjoying these faster contests. The losers were good when they got going. Thanks Cosmic Pumpkin.
What a great way to close out the first round :) - that's our sixth game of the year with an aggregate of 400+. Strangely Oxford Brookes answered as many starters as their first game - their bonus rate wasn't quite as good as last time though. Warwick vs Trinity next week to begin what looks like a fiery bloodbath of a second round ❤🔥 - the way scores have fallen it will be far from the first stacked game we'll see over the next few weeks 😍.
13:43 I would never have thought that Funkytown would be on University Challenge
Funky town centre here you come!
Even though they lost, Rick Astley breezed through all music questions.
Exciting match! Great work by G and D in the Open team...good knowledge. Oxford Brookes a bit lethargic except for Broadbent...liked his personality a lot! Thanks for this eagerly awaited weekly video😀
oh boy, this was an excellent match.
would NOT have allowed Edinburgh Festival for the answer which very much should have been the Edinburgh FRINGE. but that's just me, great game!
Agreed! When I ehar "Edinburgh Festival" I think of the International Festival, which was Edinburgh's first festival and is the high-brow counterpoint to the Festival Fringe.
Broadbent sho' 'nuff dismantled the MiniMoog Questions. Cratedigger.
That was a peach of a match. Open were right in the groove there. 👌🏻
Davidson's starters on literature helped by Gavaghan's own literature knowledge in the bonuses was the difference between the two
Were there more Arts questions than usual in this episode, or is it just me?
Way more. Almost a 1970s level. Bamber crop.
Not much science.
@CosmicPumpkin: Thank you for uploading! Just a heads up: You forgot to add this video to the season's playlist.
I could have sworn that was David Blunkett on the Oxford Brookes team!
Pumpkin, thanks for posting these shows! This episode S53E16 is missing from the playlist for the series and is a bit difficult to find. You might want to add it.
Thanks for these. Seems this one's missing from your S53 playlist, FYI.
Thanks again, CosmicPumpkin! Once again, I played my pre-match game of picking who I thought would win, and once again, I was wrong. So, so wrong. This was a runaway, and I'm still scratching my head over the winning team's previous match loss. Were their opponents just that good? Or did they just improve from first to second match? With the right set of questions, this team can beat any other. The losing team never had a chance in this, and they were a very likeable team. My best to each team, and to each individual.
Keskin is what happened
No such thing as a "koala bear".
caldecott's just taking in the vibes this time
Wow. What a great win. Thanks.
Thanks for the upload!
Gavaghan beat Oxford almost single handed. I bet she wouldn’t have been accepted there!
Oxford Brookes is not to be confused with Oxford itself. Though I can see why you do so.
Brookes is the largest University in Oxford by student numbers.
Are there fewer science starter questions?
good
Haven't watched but cheering for Open
Thanks again CosmicPumpkin. I think I'm only nine months behind 😁
Is it just me or does Gavaghan have a N. American accent? She says she's from London. Maybe she means London, Ontario, Canada.
Not a bear!
Broadbent is so cute 😊
Ha ha, 'William S. Burroughs' as author of 'Notes of a Native Son' (23:02). The wild guesses can be funny.
Thanks for this
"Haitch"?
Thanks CosmicPumpkin, appreciated by those of us not allowed to watch live TV because we don't pay the BBC for the privilege, and it's a criminal offence if we do. Disgraceful.
Impressive win, literally a smashing score. Hard luck for the losers coming up against a team they probably underestimated.
When I was in high school, we had a quiz in French class about theater terms. For setting, I wrote mise en scene. I was marked wrong and when I questioned it the teacher said the answer should have been lieu. Was I wrong? Well, at least I know what mise en scene means.
I haven't watched for a very long time, but have they changed the rules about interrupting the question with their answer? I thought it always used to be that they had to wait.
There has never been a rule about interrupting the question in bonuses
There would be no point to disallowing interruptions in the bonus questions. The team answering the questions is not competing against the other team as they are in the starter questions (the penalty for wrong answers that interrupt is weighed against the advantage in buzzing in at the earliest possible moment) so whether they wait till the end of the question or interrupt it is entirely up to them.
Oh pleeease the koala is NOT a bear therefore answer should be incorrect (at 10.18)
Red pandas aren't pandas but nobody minds
The question was about the common name, so it's correct. Biologically, it's not a bear, but commonly it is known as a "bear". A coconut is not a nut, but who cares.
It's definitely not their common name in Australia!
In Australia they are only known as Koala, we never say koala bear. Tourists and other countries persist in calling them by the incorrect term. They will catch on eventually
Koala bear is not a common name for the koala
Jfc she's so cute.
Hooray, they got rid of Paxman, twenty-nine years... He was no Bamber, his snottiness was only surpassed by his ignorance.
Broadbent is on something?
Extremely disappointing performance from Oxford Brookes! Their captain looked as if he was on holiday, and gave off unbelievably leisurely vibes. Most times he seemed more interested in scanning his surroundings and smiling benignly at his teammates than in answering questions. Broadbent and Gardner made for a striking contrast, but got going too late. Congrats to the Open University, who looked so incredibly switched on, they could have powered an entire village with their energy. I cannot wait to see them again!
I thought we agreed no spoilers in the comments?
What was agreed on was that it's your own fault if you look at the comments before you've watched the match.
Nobody has agreed to anything. Rule no 1: don't look at the comments until you have watched the video. The board is normally used to discuss the video, which is impossible to do without menitoning the result.
Congrats to Open, but I felt they were rude in interrupting Rojan repeatedly during the bonuses. Especially once they were so far ahead!
Answering the bonuses quickly while you're ahead isn't rude. It would be worse if they dithered and took their time unnecessarily.
A show like university challenge should absolutely NOT accept "Koala Bear" as an acceptable answer.
Disappointing.
Well, to quote Wikipedia "The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), sometimes called koala bear". Both Koala and Koala Bear refer to Phascolarctos cinereus. The question was not "Is the Koala a bear?".
Yeah, probably don't quote Wikipedia.
Koala bear is not the name of the animal.
Call it that in Australia and you'll be laughed at and ridiculed.
@@andywhelan8608 I know about that. But in the UK it is still commonly called a Koala Bear. Names vary.
Gavaghan, WTF, hard to look at it…. Why would you do that to yourself??
That whole team is unattractive. But they won so we’re stuck with it.
Au contraire, she is attractive in so many ways. Looking deep into those limpid eyes through those enormous lenses, she would mesmerise you with her voice, dazzle you with her intellect, and bewitch you with her inner beauty. An afternoon in her company would be well spent. I must confess also being somewhat taken with her physical appearance, but that is a secondary consideration.
Sad to say goodbye to Gardner. She is gorgeous looking. @@johnahearn7964
A KOALA IS NOT A BEAR and I cannot believe that Uni Challenge accepted the answer given (and then had the host confirm it). The koala is a marsupial. It's closest living relative is a wombat, which is also a marsupial and also not a bloody bear. For a show that's all about high-level intellectual rigour this is a massive error. Do better, UC.
The usage of "koala bear" is prevalent in common parlance, which is why it was an acceptable response. Did you not know this?
For the life of me I cannot remember any question causing as much of a ruckus in the comments as this one
I don't care what incorrect term people use, I expect the question setters on University Challenge to require contestants to answer their questions correctly. @@vig6321
Only halfway through but I’m really not a fan of Gavaghan. Could confer with her team before declaring answers.
But she does, doesn't she? I don't think they got anything wrong because of her captainship.
@@PS-vm3we No, often she just says the answers. True she didn’t lose any points, conferring would just be the courteous thing to do 🤷♀️
She could but the speed in answering from Open probably helped their early momentum and helped them win.
The show is edited for television, there's a high chance that they speed some things up in the process. I remember reading a few years ago that Paxman himself said that they will cut chunks out if neither team knows any answers over a long period of time!
I noticed that Gavaghan did not confer regarding her answers but I took it merely as an indication that she was confident about her responses and didn’t need to confer. (Sometimes you just know the answer.) That she didn’t lose any points while not conferring was consistent with that impression.
Pity that Oxford got smashed. I'd watch Gardiner all day
Strange then you did not notice her name contains only 7 letters.
@@Ken_oh545 No, we were distracted.